Postpartum blood clots and bleeding after the child birth

After giving birth, normally a woman can experience bleeding and to pass some blood clots as the uterus contracts and becomes smaller.

During this recovery time, the woman's body begins the process of restoring itself to a pre-pregnancy state and prepares for breastfeeding.

 A woman may experience two types of blood clots after childbirth in that the clots are passed through the vagina in the days after birth, which is from the shedding of the womb's lining and the detachment of the placenta. And another clot that happens inside the body's veins — these are rare but can be life-threatening.

Even as some bleeding and clotting are to be anticipated, a woman should speak to a doctor about excessive bleeding and large clots symptoms. It is also essential to recognize the symptoms of a dangerous blood clot inside a vein.

As the woman body sheds the placenta after delivery, blood may pool in the uterus and form clots. In the first 24 hours, the blood flow is the highest, and then many women pass one or more large clots.

The woman body makes more blood-clotting factors in during pregnancy, it will help to prevent excessive bleeding during childbirth. However, this also puts a woman at higher risk of developing a dangerous blood clot inside a vein.

A woman's risk of developing of these clots is more than 10 times normal in the 6 weeks after delivery.it shows that this risk is more than 22 times in this period. The risk of these clots returns to normal within 18 weeks after delivery.

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