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1 Your lochia is still bright red four days after your baby's birth. 2  Your lochia has a foul smell or you come down with fever or chills, which can be a sign of a postpartum infection. 3  You have abnormally heavy bleeding (saturating a sanitary pad in an hour or having blood clots bigger than a golf ball).
However you gave birth, whether vaginally or by caesarean, you will have some bloody discharge from your vagina (lochia) (Marchant 2009). The lochia is red at first, then brownish, and finally yellowish-white. For about 10 days it will be like a heavy period, and can continue for up to six weeks in dribs and drabs.