Every woman after childbirth asks the question: when menstruation will come, how the cycle is restored correctly, and how to know if there are any health problems.
According to experts, nature has laid down in the female body that menstruation should not be restored until the mother stops breastfeeding the child. Moreover, in our time, they feed for a year at most, then artificial complementary foods begin. Or even before the age of one, the child no longer sees mother's milk. And in the old days, women fed a child only with milk until the age of three, until the child mastered normal adult food.
When the child begins to eat feeding, the body immediately reacts to this, and a gradual decrease in milk production begins. It is in modern times that people resort to various tricks in order to be able to get pregnant and give birth to a child. And before, pregnancy, gestation and childbirth were a natural process, children were fed only with mother's milk, there was no regimen. When the child wanted, then they fed him. And all this time, while the child was growing up, the woman did not have periods. This is how the endocrine system is arranged, so that one does not interfere with the other, because menstruation marked the cessation of breastfeeding, and it means that the body is ready for a new pregnancy.
However, this norm has changed a lot in recent times. Now, to prevent pregnancy, women use hormonal drugs, childbirth takes place with the help of mechanical and medical intervention, and many other factors also affect the shift in lactation norms. Some modern mothers start complementary foods from almost three months of the child's life, wean him from the breast early in order to be able to take the child to kindergarten and go to work as early as possible. And some mothers, for one reason or another, do not breastfeed at all! Such mothers may begin to menstruate as early as a month after childbirth.
Now let's dwell in more detail on how a woman's menstrual cycle is restored?
When pregnancy occurs, all body systems switch to work in an enhanced mode, or are completely rebuilt for the new state of the body. When childbirth has passed, the body needs from a month and a half to six months to recover. Only the uterus is able to contract within six months, gradually returning to its original state. While the mother is breastfeeding, the hormonal system and mammary glands will not begin to work in the old mode, as before pregnancy. And the pituitary gland begins to actively produce the hormone prolactin, which is responsible for the presence of milk in the mammary glands. The same prolactin suspends the production of hormones by the ovaries, and the maturation of the egg. In short, while the mother is feeding the child, ovulation does not occur. And if there is no ovulation, there is no period. Breastfeeding determines how quickly a woman's hormonal background is restored, how quickly the production of hormones responsible for menstruation will be restored. If a woman decides to feed her baby as much as he needs, or as much as her body is capable of, then, as a rule, menstruation occurs by the end of the first year of the baby's life, when the lactation period is already coming to an end. As soon as the mother resorts to complementary foods, the body immediately begins to react to the fact that the baby already needs less milk than before. Its production gradually decreases, and menstruation may immediately come. If the mother has little milk, or for some other reason she begins to introduce complementary foods from the first days of the child's life, her body can also quickly regulate the hormonal background, and menstruation can come three to four months after childbirth. And if the mother does not breastfeed the baby at all for one reason or another, then menstruation is restored completely in about a couple of months. A woman is already ovulating and can conceive again. Note that menstruation is restored only based on how long the mother breastfeeds the child, and how this process occurs. The restoration of menstruation does not depend on the process of contractions or childbirth, whether it is a cesarean section or natural childbirth.
The first menstruation that came after childbirth indicates that the menstrual cycle has gradually begun to recover. However, the full restoration of the menstrual cycle will occur in two to three months, when the cycle is completely stabilized.
If you feel that something is abnormal, that is, the cycle is not restored, menstruation is very painful, abundant, or, on the contrary, scanty, then you need to consult a gynecologist. Such symptoms may indicate the occurrence of inflammatory processes in the uterus or ovaries, endometriosis, or tumors in the uterus and ovaries.
Some women have the opinion that after childbirth, as a rule, soreness and heavy menstruation should disappear. Menstruation should become normal, less painful and more scarce. This fact does take place, and this is exactly what happens for most women. After childbirth, the cycle of menstruation, which was irregular before childbirth, can also improve.
So what is the reason for the mysterious transformation? У некоторых женщин матка имеет загиб, из-за которого возникает затруднение оттока крови. Именно поэтому, как правило, менструации болезненные. В процессе беременности и родов загиб матки исчезает. Ее положение выпрямляется, и становится более правильным анатомически. Расположение органов в полости таза так же становится несколько иным, и болезненность месячных проходит. В современных гинекологических медицинских центрах работают специалисты. Которые смогут полно и раскрыто предоставить молодой маме все ответы на интересующие ее вопросы. Женщина должна обратиться к специалисту, который проведет комплексное исследование ее организма, объяснить все по поводу восстановления менструального цикла, периода кормления ребенка и всего, что связано со здоровьем матери в этот период. Так же врач проконсультирует женщину в вопросах послеродовой контрацепции, и подберет правильный для этого препарат, или метод.