after labor...question?

its heavy! more heavy than a period. 

I'd hold off on the white sheets till you're completely done bleeding. Same with wearing any nice panties/pants.

 I had a vaginal delivery with my daughter, and I bled for about 4 weeks, and it was very heavy...i would bleed through on the sheets a lot!!!

With my c-section though, I had that 3 weeks ago, and I will bleed occasionally, but the heavy constant bleeding stopped about 5 days after I had my son. Now it is mostly just spotting!

The bleeding is much heavier than a period for quite a while after birth, I would say at least a week and possibly for several. I bled between 2 - 5 weeks after each baby depending. Use old sheets at first for sure.

I bleed for four weeks afterwards, the majority of the time it was pretty heavy.  Then after that I had to take BC just to get it to come again.  And no I wasn't preggo. lol.  And you can't wear tampons, which I hated.  I hate wearing pads, makes me feel nasty.

wow! thanks everyone, I love fast replies. lol. so Ill be stripping the sheets as of now. lol

heavy! and i bled for 5 1/2 weeks

I bled for about  4 weeks with my first  (I think it was 9 years ago)  and about the same with my second.   It was heavy for the first week and then it lightned up.  I would definetly by some unpretty underwear and use some old sheets until you have lightned up.    Good luck

I love your picture ...it's beautiful! I bled bascially all 6 weeks ...obviously it got lighter and lighter but it was pretty heavy for the first few weeks ...which a little was my fault bc I was on my feet way too much. If you take it easy your blood should slow down and become lighter ...but coming home from the hospital you most likely will be bleeding A LOT! ....I have white sheets and none got on my sheets.

I second this, especially the "nice panties" part.  The week before I had my son I went to Wal-mart and bought two packs of grannie panties, along with the biggest, longest, thickest, wingiest (lol) Kotex pads I could find.  The thins ones just don't cut it - no joke.  I've always worn tampons, since my first period, and I have to tell you I felt so gross.  I bled for 5 weeks.  I never leaked onto the bed because I'm so flippin meticulous about changing those things, but I still kept a towel on my side of the bed, just in case.  There would be sometimes during the first week and a half that I'd get up from a lying position to a standing or sitting position and feel a gush.  I kinda thought I peed, but it was just blood.  You see lots of clots, but I never saw any bigger than the size of maybe a dried apricot or so.  At first, going pee was a pain in my ass because I had a cleansing ritual...but after the first week I got it down to two minutes or less.  Sometimes it would burn to go pee because I tore and had stitches, so I would fill my peri-bottle (kinda looks like a douche bottle, just without the big long squirt top) with warm water so I could spray some water down there.  (If you have a peri-bottle, make sure you fill it first before you sit down, lol.)  Then afterward I'd use the rest of the water to wash all the clots and blood away, blot (DO NOT WIPE!  It hurts!) dry, use my Dermaplast spray (it's a life-saver!), stick the pad in my panties, line it with witch-hazel pads and then I was on my way.  But I literally had a little kit that I would put in my diaper bag if I went anywhere.  Sorry if it's TMI, but I really wish someone would have told me all this BEFORE I had my son...it would have saved me SO much time!

Quoting RosePetalTears:

its heavy! more heavy than a period. 

I'd hold off on the white sheets till you're completely done bleeding. Same with wearing any nice panties/pants.

 With my first mine was really heavy but only lasted for 5 days! But then after 2 weeks I got a period that was about 5 days too.