From Day One to Twelve Weeks: How Your Body Rebuilds After Birth

Birth isn’t the finish line. It’s the start of a 12-week rebuild often called the postpartum period, the 4th trimester or omugwo in Nigeria. For six weeks you’ll experience lochia—the shedding of the uterine lining and healing of the placenta site. Days 1–3 bring bright red flow, days 4–10 shift to pink-brown, and weeks 2–6 to yellow-white. It shows your uterus is repairing itself. Wild fact: You lose about 500 ml of blood between delivery and lochia. During pregnancy your body boosts blood volume by 50% just for this process.

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