I just had a baby in June, (yay!) and the past 3 periods I have had, a week or a couple of days before I get it, I experience horrible stomach pains. They get really bad to where they interfere with my daily routine and have to take a pain pill that I had left over from when I got out of the hospital.

I also have a lot of blood and blood clots in my urine when my period comes, but my blood clots aren't real big. I've been told that if they get to be the size of golf balls, I should call. But I've never experienced any of this in my past periods, so is this normal? Is it just because I had a baby, or what? I have know clue. Ok, thanks :0)

After having a child, your body goes through hormonal changes. This can change the symptoms that you used to have with your periods. Intense, painful cramping is normal for many women during their periods. Many women cannot even function during their cramping.

Also, those are not blood clots you are seeing. They are globs of uterine tissue that are engorged with blood. They are pieces of the uterine wall which is shed during your period. Your hormones regulate how thick or thin that uterine wall is before it is shed. So the thicker the wall, the bigger the clumps are. So as your hormones change, so will these clumps.

Nothing to worry about.