Fleshy thing poking out

[Pussyfoot]

Have had light postnatal bleeding until yesterday when I soaked a maternity pad. Now I have something fleshy dangling from my vagina. It's not painful but at the same time I don't want to tug at it. I'm still bleeding but it's not as heavy today.

Should I let things happen naturally or see a doctor?

[Lemonhead]

Is it attached to you? Sometimes it can look a bit...odd..for a while until it heals.
Could be a bit of retained placenta...I had a few bits fall into the loo a few days after birth...

[Pussyfoot]

Could be a bit of retained placenta...


I gave birth about two weeks ago now. I think it is part of the placenta..or part of the sac?
My placenta was ragged at birth but the doctor harvested what I thought was all of it.
It's not painful.

[Lemonhead]

Yeah definitely could be. My placenta pieces looked like a piece of liver, dark reddy-brown coloured so not at all like normal skin. Pretty gross really haha.

[Pussyfoot]

Oh no. Mine is white/creme, like a blown out balloon.
I think I'd better ring the midwife :)

[Guest1234]

I would definitely get it checked out ASAP!

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[xkwzit]

Did you have an episiotomy or tears? Sometimes the body goes into overdrive when healing those, creating "proud flesh", which is too much skin growing back. I had it with my first episiotomy, my husband just had it recently with a cut on his thumb cuticle. Mine wasn't picked up until my 6 week checkup, so it may be too early for it to be that. If it is that, it will prob have to be removed, the method will depend on how much there is. Mine was cut away, DH had his burnt off with silver nitrate.

[Pussyfoot]

Midwife reckons it's part of the amniotic sac coming out.

It's now about 15cm long and it appears to be coming out naturally. It's like a long, white and bloodied rope.

Still no pain but slight ache has started as per what I feel during the beginning of a period. I have a pad in and I'm bleeding away merrily. Midwife says this is the body's way of expelling what it doesn't want.

Midwife also suggested I roll my finger around the 'rope' and gently tug. (I instantly thought, she's telling me to go pull myself. HAHA!)

So there I am, squatting and checking this thing out, I give it a tug and it doesn't move but there's a release of blood and mucus.

And I'm like, eww, I could be the bath and that could be the bath plug kind o' thing and there may be a lot of bathwater up there so I call her back, tell her, she mutters something about hoping I don't have a secondary haemorrhage and tells me to come into the clinic this evening after rush hour.

[the girls mum]

:eek: go back after rush hour?

Gosh I would have thought they would want to check you out.

Hope all is ok :hugs:

[The sooper nanny]

I'd be getting checked out asap.


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[Lemonhead]

Wowww I love medical stuff I wanna see :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Hope its nothing serious, Im sure all will be fine :hugs:.

[PsychedAboutMike]

maybe you should head down down to emergancy just incase you do heamorrage!

[Crazyfamily]

i would get it checked asap. i have 7 children and have never had that happen. hope it fixes itself whatever it is

[kezty]

How did you go????????

[MissSteph]

Wowww I love medical stuff I wanna see :laughing::laughing::laughing:

X2!!! :laughing:

OP, I hope everything is ok and it's nothing serious

[me+he=3]

X2!!! :laughing:

OP, I hope everything is ok and it's nothing serious


x 3! I also love your way of describing whats happening. Made something gross so funny!!

[ieatshavingscum]

Hope everything ok!

[Daydream Believer]

Goodness gracious?!? Are you ok? That sounds very.... Ahh.... Hmm... Words escape me.


Can I ask about this 'proud flesh' could it look like a little 'uvula'(sp? You know, that little thing at the back of your throat?) and if so, would it be normal for it to hurt after dtd 6 months post birth?

Sorry to thread crash, I never imagined I would ever have a chance to ask this question until my next pap smear... And that's 18 months away, and I'm sick of bleeding every time we dtd...

[maximops]

Oh gosh I hope u are getting checked out...how long post natal are u? The buy where u said u tugged it and it caused blood to rush out made me worry... Please get checked ASAP

[~*clairesmum*~]

OMG hope ur getting it checked out now and that everythings is AOK

[Little-Pink-Hen]

Ohmygosh I hope they checked you out

[ElizaDoLittle]

Wow! I too wanna know what it was! And as a future midwife I wanna have a squiz! Lol

Hope you're ok Hun

[bellalika]

I know it sound bad, but I kind of want to see it as I'm a really curious person (not that I want to see your hoohaa). Sounds concerning though. Hope all is alright.

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[MrsTwith3]

Is it possibly a cervical prolapse. How far postnatal are you?
Hope you got it checked out and all is ok.

[Pussyfoot]

It was mainly my amniotic sac and a few bits and pieces.

Thankfully they were naturally expelled by the body and there were no complications. Which made me feel relieved as I thought of a few scenarios such as prolapse or retention of placenta...or that scene from Alien... :D

The midwives were very 'oh yeah' so I didn't panic. They say this happens all the time. They say that size doesn't matter but they seemed pretty impressed by its length and duly measured it.

The 'rope' ended up being 24cm long and then came a fleshy like clot thing after it. It was like pulling a handkerchief out of a hat...the thing just kept going and going. A bit of blood appeared and then the bleeding stopped after that and now it's back to a light pink trickle.

DH has put his foot down (oo ahh). No more work until bub is at least 6 months old.

I took a photo of the dangly bits but it's just too gross to publish, sorry Lemonhead. :laughing:

[Lemonhead]

I was just about to say, "did you take a photo??!" and you DID :eek: but wont share booo :( haha.

[xkwzit]

Can I ask about this 'proud flesh' could it look like a little 'uvula'(sp? You know, that little thing at the back of your throat?) and if so, would it be normal for it to hurt after dtd 6 months post birth?

Sorry to thread crash, I never imagined I would ever have a chance to ask this question until my next pap smear... And that's 18 months away, and I'm sick of bleeding every time we dtd...
I guess it could look like that (I didn't really have a chance to look at it). When the doc found mine, he told me that it could be "annoying" (so I guess it could bleed and get sore if it's irritated). But mine was removed it before it had a chance to annoy me, so I can't really say :o Sorry :)

And PF, I'm glad you've been seen to and it's all good now :thumbsup:

[Crazyfamily]

hahaha when you were descibing this 24cm long thing coming from your body i got goosebumps. for some reason i imagine the feeling of rope burn.lol. very interesting

[Little-Pink-Hen]

hahaha when you were descibing this 24cm long thing coming from your body i got goosebumps. for some reason i imagine the feeling of rope burn.lol. very interesting

Made me all squeamish but still want to look at the picture lol
Amazing

[Stiflers Mom]

This is the last thread I expected to pmsl over! Glad you are ok OP :)

[Yummy_Mummy]

I was just about to say, "did you take a photo??!" and you DID :eek: but wont share booo :( haha.

LOL..i know curiosity has got me too

[Pussyfoot]

Crikey! You're all sicker than I am!

:laughing:

[~Temet Nosce~]

Ohhh this thread has me clenching my legs together and cringing >_< glad you're ok though.. I would have freaked out.

[The Girls Only Club]

Omg I was looking for this thread yesterday but couldn't remember where it was.

I'm so glad you are alright.