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I had a baby 7 weeks ago via emergency cesarean i've had a period since that ended 10 days ago and have just noticed brown jelly like discharge ?

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Dr. Wayne Ingram answered

Old blood + mucous: That is old blood, mucous and debris from the previous period.

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Answered 6/20/2015

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