After the birth of the baby, the parturient woman gradually regains her hormonal state, and the menstrual cycle comes to her usual rhythm. Because of the individual structure of the organism of each woman after childbirth, the restoration of menstrual periods also occurs in different ways. In some, the cycle can tune up after one and a half months after delivery, and in other parturient women the menstrual period may not appear before the end of lactation.
Do they regenerate after the birth?
After the birth of the "newly minted" mothers, blood coagulum is released from the vagina for thirty to forty days, which in medicine is usually called lochia. Such secretions appear due to trauma to the walls of the uterus. Initially after childbirth, usually in the first week, the lochia stand out in rather large numbers, gradually decreasing, and soon disappearing altogether. This phenomenon resembles menstruation, but is not it.
Almost every mother after the birth does not soon begin to think about when her period will go, because menstruation stops immediately after the fertilization of the egg , and throughout the pregnancy these annoying bleeding does not bother the woman. This is very convenient, because the extra discomfort that brings menstruation, disappears for a long time.
It would seem that the menstrual cycle is not able to normally adjust during lactation due to prolactin - the hormone responsible for the production of milk. But usually many women after the birth of a month return when they begin to teach the baby to another food, thereby reducing the number of breastfeedings. As a rule, lure babies need to start at five to six months of age, and accordingly, and the monthly can return after such a period of time.
What determines the recovery of menstruation after childbirth?
There are factors that can affect the resumption of the menstrual cycle in the postpartum period:
- the presence of complications in bearing a child, as well as with the birth itself;
- hormonal diseases of a woman and other chronical disorders of the body;
- frequency and duration of breastfeeding .
The nature of the baby's feeding directly affects how much after the birth is not monthly. After all, if the baby does not feed on mother's milk, menstruation is tuned much faster (about two months), since there are no obstacles for the maturation of the follicles, and nothing hinders ovulation.
But if the child is fed on demand, not adhering to a special schedule, the menstrual cycle can resume not earlier than a year later. This is due to the fact that when a woman constantly produces a large amount of milk, the period of recovery of the menstrual cycle is stretched, and menstruation does not resume for a long time.
What may be the monthly after childbirth?
When the months after the birth resumed, they may acquire a slightly different character. This can be explained by the fact that during the period of childbirth, childbirth and the post-natal period, the organism experienced various changes and stresses, which are a kind of stress for the organism. In addition, after all this, the load on the endocrine and nervous system is significantly increased,
which can be the result of unpleasant or even painful sensations during the restoration of the cycle. To get rid of such discomfort, you just need to eat well and have enough rest. But often it happens the other way round, when before the pregnancy the menstrual periods were accompanied by painful sensations, and when the menstrual cycle was restored, such pains did not appear any more. The explanation for this may be the bending of the uterus, as a result of which the outflow of blood was carried out inadequately. But after pregnancy, the bend disappears, and with it unpleasant sensations.