The menstrual cycle of a woman who had a baby, as a rule, changes in the postnatal period. This is due to many reasons. Women often say that after giving birth month became abundant and longer. This sign indicates the presence of a pathology and a woman necessarily must tell your doctor about menstrual changes. Often heavy periods after childbirth are the reason for hospitalization, and even scraping the uterine cavity Curettage - how dangerous it is? . Therefore, any deviation from the normal parameters of the menstrual cycle should be an alarming sign for the young mother.

Restoration of the menstrual cycle after birth

On the restoration of the menstrual cycle primarily affects breastfeeding. If a woman does not breastfeed the baby, the first menstruation appear within six to eight weeks after birth. This is due to the fact that the body has to come to the hormonal "prenatal" balance, rejuvenate, and blood loss during childbirth. In addition, in the first six to eight weeks post-partum period, the uterus has the form of an open wound (the location of the placenta), and takes some time for her healing and the growth of the functional layer. If a woman prefers breastfeeding, menstruation restored after cessation of lactation is associated with reduced levels of the hormone prolactin, which inhibits the production of sexual hormones. Reduction of feeding, introduction of complementary foods Introduce solid foods - how not to be mistaken with a choice of products?   supplementary feeding and also contribute to earlier onset of menstruation (again, decreasing the synthesis of prolactin).

The normal menstrual period after birth

The normal menstrual period after birth lasted no more than seven days, moderate or more abundant than before delivery. In the postpartum period in women menstrual cycle can both lengthen and shorten. Menses dark red or brownish and have an unpleasant odor.

Factors affecting the occurrence of heavy menstrual period after birth

On the volume of menstrual flow after birth is influenced by many factors. These include:

• inadequate and poor nutrition during pregnancy;
• nedoobsledovanie pregnant woman, and therefore undiagnosed pathology;
• untreated chronic diseases during the gestation of the child;
• the presence of iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy;
• violation of a pregnant woman of work and rest;
• trauma-during pregnancy;
• heavy labor (especially bleeding in childbirth manual examination of the uterus).

Heavy menstruation after childbirth

The normal menstrual period postpartum women are associated with some physiological changes of the uterus and cervix. Cervical canal after delivery becomes shorter and wider, and menses as a consequence become more abundant. Furthermore, the uterus after childbirth and, respectively, and its cavity increases in size, ie, increased the volume of the endometrium, which also leads to a more intense menses.

One of the reasons that lead to heavy menstrual periods after birth, are the remnants of placenta (placenta). This woman complained of bright red spotting Spotting - it is important to rule out pathology , Often accompanied by an unpleasant odor due to the decomposition of the remaining portion of the placenta. In addition, women are concerned about cramping in the lower abdomen Abdominal pain: when to sound the alarm? Who give in the waist. Against the background of the remnants of the placenta in the uterus may join secondary infection and the development of endometritis with all its consequences (fever, general weakness, and malaise, loss of appetite).

Often the cause of heavy menstrual period after birth is intrauterine contraception. IUD causes increased uterine contractions, promotes production of prostaglandins, resulting in menstruation become painful and heavy.

Caesarean section also refers to one of the causes of heavy menstrual period. As we know, none of intrauterine intervention does not pass in vain for the body, and the seam on the uterus after the operation violates its contractility and is the cause of endometriosis.

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The main characteristic of the state of women's reproductive health is a menstrual cycle. If the menstrual cycle is normal, that is, there are no abnormalities, with almost 100% confidence we can say about the absence not only of gynecological diseases, but also other extragenital pathology. Every woman should know the parameters of your menstrual cycle and be able to recognize any of its violation. In addition, the female menstrual calendar is recommended to conduct, on the basis of which we can determine the "dangerous" and "safe" days, and suspect a problem with the menstrual cycle.

Menstrual cycle

The menstrual cycle - a cyclical physiological process that occurs in a woman's body about every month. Formation of the menstrual cycle begins with puberty Puberty child - stages of a complex path And its end associated with the onset of menopause (last menstrual period). Periodic changes in the body of a woman of child-bearing age, directed to the possibility of conceiving and carrying a child. The length of the menstrual cycle each woman is individual and depends on its constitutional features, heredity, environment and more. To a normal menstrual cycle oscillations are its length from 21 to 35 days (average 28 days). To properly calculate the first day of the menstrual cycle The days of the menstrual cycle: Four phases   It is considered the first day of menstruation.

During the menstrual cycle normally lasts from three to seven days. Total blood loss during menstruation should not exceed 80 ml.

Common symptoms associated with the menstrual cycle

As a rule, the majority of women throughout the menstrual cycle is not experiencing discomfort and do not make the gutter. However, some say the characteristic symptoms before the start of menstruation (the so-called premenstrual syndrome). Moderately severe premenstrual syndrome is not a disease and is associated with hormonal changes in the body. The most common symptoms of premenstrual state include: mood swings Mood swings in women - bad character or a disease?   (irritability, tearfulness or apathy), bloating and breast tenderness, appearance of acne, weight gain (edema) and the severity of the abdomen.

In the first and second day of menstruation, some women suffer from mild pain in the abdomen and / or back pain, which is associated with uterine contractions and rejection of the endometrium and also not a pathology. In the middle of the menstrual cycle, in an ovulation phase Ovulation - How to determine as accurately as possible?   may cause mild abdominal pain and minor bleeding (ovulatory bleeding). Similar phenomena are considered a normal variant.

What is menstruation

Menstruation (monthly) - repeated periodically, at certain intervals, bleeding from the genital tract during the childbearing age women (except pregnancy and breastfeeding period). Menstruation, in fact, is nothing else than the culmination of the menstrual cycle and is associated with rejection (desquamation) of the functional layer of the endometrium, which had been prepared for implantation of a fertilized egg. As obstetricians say: "Menstruation - is crying uterine pregnancy failed.

Menstrual flow contains pieces of exfoliated endometrial and blood. Menstruation always has a dark color and is essentially free of clumps (menstrual blood does not clot almost due to the presence in it of special enzymes). The first menses (menarche) begins in girls at the age of ten - and fourteen for about one year may differ irregular menstruation.

Termination monthly (menopause) occurs in 40-58 years (mean 52 years), which is associated with the beginning of the extinction of the reproductive function of the ovaries and exhaustion.

Menstruating woman should carefully observe good personal hygiene, as it was during bleeding, it is most susceptible to infection of the genital organs (especially the uterus).

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