Cherie - I probably should post about my PPH somewhere here on BB it might help me mentally but in a very short version Adrian was born 7am Tuesday by the Wednesday night I started feeling really yuck with hot and cold flushes, I got the midwife in and mentioned it to her she then called a Dr in, he couldn`t find anything wrong, next day I wasn`t feeling any better and I was also getting short of breath so another Dr came in and checked me she said I was strange and had some very odd symptoms, my bleeding was very minimal, even though I felt terrible I decided I wanted to go home, the Dr then picked up a heart murmur so I had to stay the night for an ultrasound the next day which didn`t eventuate so I was sent home even though the Dr had also picked up my uterus was divated to the right.

Friday night was terrible, I was either so very very hot I had to throw everything off the bed and lie their naked (this was early August!!!) next I was freezing cold and shaking violently.

Saturday I called the midwives as I was very concerned they said I was most likely experiencing after birth pains still, I then felt a bit better on Saturday night, sunday morning but by that afternoon I felt terrible again and very pale, Sunday night I started passing a 20 cent clot then throughout the night I was passing clots size of my hand and my pad was soaked within 10 minutes, I didn`t tell DH till morning by this stage blood and clots were pouring out of me (sorry TMI), I couldn`t get out of bed so an ambulance was called - I very nearly passed out but the oxygen was a life saver, I was then given an emergency D & C.

That is a very quick run down, so I had symptoms of a clot for 5 days before anyone would do something about it, they were hoping AB`s would fix me but they couldn`t wait too long in hospital because as fast as blood was being pumped into me I was pumping it straight back out.

So that is quite a bad case scenario and all because they didn`t diagnose me right in the beginning, I`d never have a baby under the public system again because of this.

That`s why the AB`s are so important and if your feeling any worse at all please let them know. What AB`s did your OB put you onto?