After birth, the uterus is one large wound. Restores its state gradually. Also gradually restored ovarian function and menstrual cycle, because the body after birth is another challenge - feeding baby Feeding your baby - optimal breastfeeding   feeding.

Woman's menstrual cycle - is the mechanism given to them by nature for procreation. The normal menstrual cycle works regularly and repeatedly. Work it depends on the nervous and endocrine systems, as well as the condition of the female genital organs.

Reproductive organs of women after childbirth

After birth, all the female sexual organs are injured. Thus, the uterus is stretched, its mucous membrane is completely absent, the blood vessels partially gape - severe bleeding stopped, and small blood vessels still bleeding from the uterus and the lochia constantly stand - a mixture of blood and wound discharge. This condition requires a lot of time to recover.

Lochia initially have bloody foundation, but gradually they become lighter and the middle of the second month after birth, usually to an end. This suggests that the mucous membrane of the uterus recovered. By this time usually recover (reducing) and muscle sheath - the uterus assumes its normal shape.

Restoration work genitals may be slower if the birth was difficult, she was weakened by some disease (eg, chronic pyelonephritis), at first birth among women after 30 years. In this case, the mucous membrane of the uterus is recovering slowly, spotting last longer, often associated infection that poses a threat to the inflammatory process in the uterus - endometritis.

The menstrual cycle and breast-feeding

After birth, the ovary and recovering work, they gradually decrease in size, and is converted into a white scar corpus luteum of pregnancy. Ovaries in the middle of the second month after delivery and restore its function. Rebounding and activities of the neuroendocrine system, so that the body is ready to rebuild their menstrual function. What happens if a woman is not breastfeeding, then by the time she recovered menstrual cycle. At this time in the first half of the menstrual cycle, the egg has matured, then it is released from the ovary, breaking the follicle, which matured enters the fallopian tube, where it can be fertilized by sperm, and then into the uterus - begins a new pregnancy.

If a woman is breastfeeding, her menses then recovered much later, with the introduction of complementary foods only child, when he begins to need less milk. In this case the duration of each woman recovery period of the menstrual cycle may be different.

"Team" all these changes again neuroendocrine system. While the cerebral cortex receives constant signals that need breast milk in the increasing volume (and the baby sucks every day more milk), in the same amount allocated rising pituitary hormone prolactin. This hormone stimulates the production of breast milk, but it inhibits the secretion of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and thus the female sex hormone estrogen. Since egg matures in the ovaries under the influence of FSH and estrogen, then it does not ripen (and therefore can not escape from the ovary) and is in the ovary.

Changes in the menstrual cycle with the conduct of complementary foods

The first solid foods The lure: a spoon first adult food   child, breastfed Breastfeeding: notes   today recommended to be administered in 5 - 6 months. The signal that reduces the required amount of milk is fed to the cerebral cortex, which gives a command to restore the menstrual cycle. If a child is on mixed feeding (breast plus supplementation artificial mixtures), the menstrual cycle is restored sooner, depending on how much the child receives breast milk.

The first few menstrual periods (sometimes just one) after birth are usually anovulatory. This means that there is no ovulation (the egg in the follicle matures usually) and formation of the corpus luteum, which ring is a single phase. After anovulatory cycle comes menstrualnopodobnoe bleeding, which may also be cyclic, that is emerging at regular intervals. The emergence menstrualnopodobnoe bleeding is preceded, as a rule, due to the decline in hormonal influences reverse development (atresia) follicles.

After some time after the beginning of anovulatory cycles, menstrual cycle is restored completely and becomes a two-phase. This suggests that there may be a new pregnancy.

In some women the first menstruation restored immediately, at first they may be irregular and prolonged menstrual bleeding may also be different. Nevertheless, over time is restored. To the doctor should contact in the event that the menstrual cycle is not fully recovered six months after the occurrence of the first menstruation.

Galina Romanenko

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