Advice needed 🥲 I had an episiotomy, and my stitches are not healing well, I am 6 weeks pp, I’ve already had antibiotics for an infection however a few days ago my stitches started to sting and feel irritated again. Today I have had some spotting of blood from the area, I can’t tell if I’m starting my period or if something is going on with the stitches 😢 online says I shouldn’t get a period for a few months if I breastfeed full time, so I’m concerned as to what this blood is, is this normal?
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I'd go back to docs. Better to be safe then sorry.
At my 3rd midwife check up they finally swabbed my stitches to check for infection as I wasn't right, cold sweats and dizziness. I was back in hospital the next day due to aomethong else and while they were sorting that they found my stitches were infected and restitched them. I could actually sit down after.

Periods can come back straight away, even if breastfeeding.

My stitches came apart day 5 and i had an infection, i am 8 weeks postpartum now and my wound hasn’t healed yet 💔 i understand what you are going through it is very painful and sad 😥 i have seen GP many times, they keep telling me it takes time to heal. I also had some spotting but mine was from the wound. The doctor said the wound is raw that is why it might bleed sometimes. I asked to be stitched again they said they can’t do that! The wound needs to heal by itself and it is taking forever 💔

where do u live? How did they restitch them? Why doctors keep telling me that they can’t restich the wound even though i don’t have an infection now 😥

I ended up with sepsis and was back in 5 days pp due to placenta being left inside. They restitched me while I was under having the sweep to get it out. They never said why I was stitched again apart from it was infected. Before they realised all that I kept getting told it would heal and that it takes time. I'm boarder of Wales.