# Ugh. Ok Doper Ladies with home grown babies - did your period get heavier after? TMI, I'm sure. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 17, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177 "2011-05-17T04:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177/21 "2011-05-17T23:11:18Z")
My periods didn’t change at all after I had my daughter. And seriously, RedBloom - no way is that normal. And even if it were, your doctor still needs to help you do something about it, because it is not OK to be in agonising pain and non-functional just because ‘you’re a woman in your thirties’. If you hit her in the kneecap repeatedly with a lump hammer, it would be totally normal for her to be in a lot of pain, but I bet she’d still want an X-ray and a cast and some good painkillers. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177/22 "2011-05-17T23:14:09Z")
> [@RedBloom](#): > > That only happened a few times, thank goodness (not every month). Doc says it’s “normal” for a woman in her 30’s to have that happen (??). She says it’s hormone related. FWIW, I was a woman in my 30’s for 7 years before I had Junior and I never had anything like that happen. I think you may want to press this issue a bit more because it doesn’t sound right. ---
**Author:** ![Gestalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90ced4/32.png) [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177/23 "2011-05-17T23:38:23Z")
**Alice** , were you on oral contraceptive pills before or after? ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177/24 "2011-05-17T23:47:13Z")
> [@Gestalt](#): > > **Alice** , were you on oral contraceptive pills before or after? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177/25 "2011-05-18T01:00:40Z")
> [@RedBloom](#): > > Mine have gotten more sporadic, the cramps are unbearable, and some days I’ll bleed so fast and heavy I have to sit in a bathtub for hours while my body drains blood (not kidding). I’ve had to go to the ER twice, in which case they told me to take Advil. My reproductive system has completely gone WHACK. Now there’s a good username/post combo! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177/26 "2011-05-18T01:41:33Z")
Yes, terribly so. I have to empty out an overflowing Diva Cup 4-8 times a day now on the heaviest days, when before it never came close to overflowing. And the blood is different–watery, almost mucusy, and paler in color. It hasn’t gotten much better and it’s been 1.5 years since my first post-partum period. It’s miserable. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177/27 "2011-05-18T03:07:08Z")
Mine was much heavier after having children. I _think_ it was also less dependable, but I’ve been on Mirena for a while (and was pregnant before that and nursing before that), so I don’t fully remember. ---
**Author:** ![RedBloom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dbc845/32.png) [@RedBloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedBloom)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177/28 "2011-05-18T15:23:20Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Now there’s a good username/post combo! :eek: 😃 Ok. After reading through this thread I may take that sage advice and get another opinion before I wind up looking like one of the Lost Boys. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177/29 "2011-05-18T16:07:41Z")
Interesting replies everyone - it seems like this could just be one of those things. Currently I’m blaming my thyroid because I’ve been having other symptoms - sadly many ‘post baby’ symptoms look very similar to ‘hypo thyroid’ issues (losing hair, feeling tired, hinky mood, etc). However, I’m also cold all the time now which is really a weird new thing for me so I think thyroid may be to blame. I’ll have to wait for the blood test results to find out I guess (not that they ever show anything definitive for thyroid anyway - the range of ‘normal’ is so huge you could drive a mac truck through it. :rolleyes: :mad:) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-ok-doper-ladies-with-home-grown-babies-did-your-period-get-heavier-after-tmi-im-sure/582177.md?page=1)