When postpartum periods begin? Immediately after giving birth you will have vaginal bleeding bright red What color goes red: beware Slightly more abundant than ordinary monthly, but you must miss a sanitary napkin for every four hours. If bleeding is more abundant, tell your midwife or doctor. The bleeding will decrease over the next week, and will change the highlight color of pale red, then brown-red.

Discharges (also known as lochia) can then become yellowish-white, and then they stop. You will feel a noticeable but not unpleasant smell. The bleeding should stop in about a week, but a small selection of blood can last about six weeks after delivery, all women differently. They are not a cause for concern, but if you're worried, talk to your doctor.

Be sure to change pads every four hours (if necessary - more), because bacteria can build up pretty quickly, especially in the lochia.

Some women prefer the immediate postpartum use thicker gaskets. Then you can go to the usual shims.

Consult your doctor if you notice any of the following symptoms:

• steady red highlight;
• Large blood clots;
• bright flash of bleeding;
• unpleasant smell from the discharge;
• sluggish uterus.

  

Return month after birth

Approximately 80% of women who do not breastfeed, monthly return in about ten weeks. Breastfeeding can delay menstruation and ovulation for twenty or more weeks, but sometimes monthly return earlier or much later than twenty weeks.

The body of each woman and her hormone levels are unique, so it is difficult to say when it will return month after birth. Some women find that their monthly return the very next month after the baby is born. On the other hand, some women start menstruating later than a year.

It happens that month after giving birth is more abundant and / or irregular. Some women have bleeding during the first menstruation after childbirth is so abundant that they have to use and tampons and pads. A safe and natural way to regulate the menstrual cycle is acupuncture, but you need to find a specialist who can help you with this.

It is important to note that ovulation and menstruation optional back together. It may happen that you will be monthly, but still will not ovulate, or so that you will ovulate shortly before the start the first menstruation after childbirth. In this case, you may not know that you have already begun ovulation and some women in such cases was surprised to find that once again pregnant.

When ovulation is back after childbirth

The probability of occurrence of ovulation in the first six weeks after birth is very low. When you come to the reception to your obstetrician-gynecologist six weeks after childbirth, it is reasonable to discuss the beginning of the use of contraception, if you plan to protect themselves from pregnancy.

When the baby sucks your breast during feeding, the pituitary gland receives signals to produce prolactin. If you are breastfeeding often enough, prolactin (unique for each woman) in the body is quite high, and it can suppress ovulation.

It is difficult to determine exactly when you ovulate will come again. The longer you continue to breastfeed her baby and the baby gets less milk (when, as it grows, it starts to get complementary feeding), the higher are the chances of return of ovulation. In some women, ovulation does not start until they are completely stopped breastfeeding.

Of course, the study of mucus can be used as a way to avoid conception, as well as to ensure that it arrived. You can also use other methods of determining ovulation, for example, try to use a special test for determining ovulation or record your basal temperature.

Breastfeeding can be a good method of contraception (with an error of about 2%), if you include all of the following factors:

• your child is exclusively breastfed Breastfeeding: notes ;
• your child is less than six months;
• if you have not had a real menstruation after childbirth;
• if you are breast-feeding at least every four to six hours;
• If you avoid the use of pacifiers or pacifiers.

  

Signs of recovery of fertility after childbirth

Determine what you can conceive again, it may be very difficult, however, to the signs that your fertility is restored include the following:

• Increased sexual desire (during breastfeeding reduced libido).
• Increased allocation of cervical mucus. Immediately after the normal menstruation you are least able to conceive Conception - as the emerging life   and you can see that quite a few selections. Number of mucus varies depending on the stage of your menstrual cycle. Lack discharge means the inability to conceive, sticky discharge also speak about the inability to conceive, but the white mucus talk about fertility (do not confuse them with semen after sexual intercourse).

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