Call your health care provider with any of the following problems:
- Fever over 100.4 for more than six hours.
- Fever and chills.
- Severe pain in abdomen, chest, or back.
- Vaginal bleeding that gets heavier rather than lighter.
- Foul-smelling vaginal bleeding.
- Bleeding or any drainage from episiotomy, laceration, or
abdominal incision
- Redness, warmth, separation, or foul odor at an incision
site.
- Difficulty urinating or burning with urination.
- Dizziness, light-headedness, or fainting.
- Pulse over 100 while resting.
- Uterus that is soft and will not remain firm with massage.
- "Baby Blues" that prevent self-care and /or baby care.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Hard, swollen, red breast(s).
- A painful or reddened knot on the breast
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Information provided by UMHS perinatal education committee March,
2005
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