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Postpartum Hemorrhage
12 min read
Also known as: Haemorrhagia post partum · PPH · postpartum bleeding · postpartum hemorrhage · heavy bleeding after delivery · uterine atony · afterbirth bleeding
Your Body Is Speaking
The child is here. The birth is over. And yet your body won't stop bleeding. What should have stopped keeps flowing. What should have closed stays open. The uterus, which should now be contracting, hesitates. Something in you has not set the final point.
Medically, what is happening is one of the most serious complications a birth can take. Postpartum hemorrhage is one of the leading causes of maternal death worldwide. If you are reading this text — or someone is reading it to you — while the bleeding is still acute, only one sentence matters: Call emergency services. 112 in Germany and much of Europe, 911 in the US, 999 in the UK. Everything else can wait. The words written here will wait for you until you have received medical care and are stable.
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