When Should I Get Help?

Most women make a normal recovery from childbirth. However, you should contact your health care provider if you have any of these signs:

• Chills or fever over 38oC (100.40F)
  
  
• You feel as if you have the flu and your breasts are sore
  
  
• Severe headache or blurred vision
  
  
• Dizzy or faint feeling
  
  
• Bright red, heavy vaginal flow soaking more than one maxi-pad in less than two hours, or passing of clots larger than a loonie, or foul-smelling vaginal flow
  
  
• Tender, reddened area on breast, not relieved by moist heat
  
  
• Severe abdominal pain (different from normal afterpains)
  
  
• Stitches open up, begin to drain, or become painful
  
  
• Pain and/or difficulty passing urine
  
  
• Redness or pain in calf of the leg
  
  
• The baby blues (crying and feeling sad, irritable and frustrated) lasts for more than two weeks)
  
  
Ref: Best Start - PPD)