I had a section 11 days ago and the past 2 days I've started bleeding fresh blood, as in a gush of it when I go to the toilet, I went back to the maternity ward yesterday morning and they didn't seem too concerned and sent me home, is anyone else getting this? I admittedly overdid it the day before yesterday and was on my feet pottering about for 5ish hours, I did some washing up earlier and sorted out some washing which took 45 minutes or so and I've started bleeding fresh blood again, is this normal??
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I had a section 2 weeks ago, and bleeding lightened in hospital, I was in for 4 days after. Then the day after I got home I had a big gush, and have been bleeding ever since, that was a week ago. I’ve been so anxious about it wondering if it’s normal and the midwife said it is. It feels like a lot of blood, I showed her pics and she said it’s ok but I still worry that it’s not. There’s never much on my pad but always a lot in the toilet

yes!! This is the exact same as me, there's not a lot at all on the pad but it's similar to a period where when I go to the toilet it all kind of comes out in one gush, I'm glad I'm not alone, the midwife said it can be normal for up to around 28 days it just concerns me that I've torn something or something's gone wrong if it's fresh blood😩

I had a section 8 days ago and my bleeding is very irregular. Sometimes I think it’s over and put on a lighter pad and then I’m taken by surprise with how heavy it comes. Sometimes it’s more pink and then goes back to bright red.

I had my baby 4 weeks and 1 day ago, I am still currently bleeding. Sometimes it can be light and other days it can be heavy, varying between bright red blood and brown blood. Bleeding can last up to 12 weeks 😊 (I had an emergency section)

Sometimes mine is light, other times it’s bright red and sometimes it’s dark red and thick. It lands in the toilet in a circle and I don’t know if it’s clots or not. So I keep worrying that there is something wrong with me, because I don’t know if my bleeding is normal even though I’ve been told it is 😭

I would assume that it could be normal? And your body just reflecting everything that would of come out of you had a vaginal birth?
But call your midwife and check? And definitely try to rest more x