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Q: smell of blood after stillbirth

asked by: slamdunk on May 22nd, 2008

New User

Last week my husband and I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, unfortunately we lost him. A week later my blood has a horrible smell. The saying is " smells like something crawed up.....well you know the rest. I don't know what to do, Is this normal with a still birth because he was already gone in my womb before i went into labor or is this something i should be concerned with. I know it is usual for the blood to have a bad smell due to the fact that it has been in there for so long, but mine has a distinct smell to it, like makes me sick to my stomach. Should i be concerned????

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Georgia59

replied on May 22nd, 2008

Especially eHealthy

I'm very sorry for your loss. Crying or Very sad

It sounds to me like you could have gotten some sort of infection- with all the changes in the vaginal area during pregnancy and birth, and then the actual process of birthing, it's easy for bacteria to get in there and cause an infection.

I'd get it checked out.

Dannzibelle

replied on May 22nd, 2008

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I'm sorry for your loss. When i gave birth last year after abouta week my blood also had a bad smell to it, turns out i had a mild bacterial infection which antibiotics cleared up in no time

slamdunk

replied on May 22nd, 2008

New User

Thank you both.

Well i went to the doctor, Who i now have a law suit against due to...lets just say a bunch of bs with the whole pregnancy, and they didnt even check me out they just gave me an antibiotic and sent me away. So basically I have the antibiotics to take but i get yeast infections when i take antibiotics, so not only am i scared to get a yeast infection on top of the open wounds, I'm not even sure what the problem is to even be taking antibiotics so should i just go ahead and take them just to be safe?

Georgia59

replied on May 22nd, 2008

Especially eHealthy

I would take them just because it really does sound like a bacterial infection. Take the antibiotics like they said.

If you get a yeast infection, you can always deal with that later. Taking some probiotics will help. A yeast infection is annoying, but the bacterial infection is more dangerous because it could spread.

slamdunk

replied on May 22nd, 2008

New User

thanks so much....i just went ahead and took one!!! so hopefully it gets better! thanks again

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