C-Section BTDT Help

Hello ladies!

I had my little girl on 2/8/13 after an emergency c section.
It was one of the scariest thing ever but she is perfect in every way.

Somewhat TMI....

When i was discharged from the hospital, my stitches were fine, no bleeding, oozing etc...
On Thursday, 6 days since the csection, it looked like one stitch popped and it started to bleed. Looked like a lot to me since i was soaking through a gauze about every hour or so. Called the Dr and he had me come in to the hospital since he was on call to check it out. He looked it over and told me that it might be a hematoma (a pocket of blood) behind the wound that had bilt up and just had to drain. He said it was nothing to worry about. Try to keep it dry and that I should come in to the office the next day.
I had an appt the next day to have my stitches removed anyway so I went and had them removed and this one little spot was still bleeding. I questioned the other Dr there and she said that it might be that I had pulled a stitch loose and that while it might look like a lot of blood, it really wasn't. It was just that I wasn't sed to bleeding from there and it looked like more blood than it really was. She let me know that if it continued to bleed I could come in for a follow up on Monday and if not, I have another check up appintment on Friday.

Has anyone else has their csection stitches bleed and had everything be ok?
I'm really worried about infection and its already a painful recovery to begin with so I wouldn't want to make it worse or delay recovering from something that sounds stupid but isn't. At this point, its been bleeding since about 5pm Thursday.

Any advice or comments from personal experience?
Thanks!!!

C-Section BTDT Help

I had a small hematoma that bled and it healed fine. I have a little extra scar tissue but other than that it is fine. If it is just blood and not yellow or greenish drainage it should be fine.

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I was still bleeding slightly/oozing (ewwwwies!) like 2 months later! It was just one tiny spot all thr way on the left end of the incision. I swore it shouldn't be & went back to dr 3 times & each time they told me it was ok, to just keep it clean. It eventually closed up (prob at around 3 months). I was really worried about it though when it wasn't closing. Hope the same happens for you soon

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I woke up one night soaked in blood. I think at that point I was home for 4 or 5 days. I freaked out called the dr in the middle of the night. I went and had it checked and was told that it is fairly normal. I was told to make sure it came clean. I wore a maxi pad taped over it for a few days. I think it bled for almost a week. My dr re-checked it twice during that time. My scar looks pretty much the same as it did after my 1st c-section.

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No advice since I had internal stitches only but I'm sure you will be fine! When in doubt, can you see another dr?