Why is it so long after the birth

While the young mother is breastfeeding, the gynecologists are not worried about the lack of menstruation. Professionals trust nature. After all, many causes affect the early or later recovery of the menstrual cycle. Medical progress in the form of contraception and hormonal drugs has made the woman's endocrine system more sensitive to environmental factors.

If there is no monthly after childbirth for several months, then the body needs more time to recover. The fact that in other women the menstrual cycle resumed very quickly may be due to the fact that they refused to breast-feed.

Nine months of pregnancy, the birth process is forced to work some body systems in an altered mode. Recovery takes about two months. But the timing of recovery of the mammary glands and the hormonal system increases significantly during the lactation period.

A young mother is in vain afraid that the months are gone. After childbirth, the hormone prolactin prevents the egg from ripening, so ovulation is impossible. After all, the mother gives birth to milk under the stimulation of prolactin. Insidious prolactin promotes lactation, but inhibits the menstrual cycle.

The hormonal background is leveled with time and depends on the mode of feeding

1. In ancient times, ancestors applied to the baby's breast as soon as he began to cry. Nowadays such a feeding system is called "on demand". Those mothers who are supporters of natural feeding on demand, give the baby a breast at any time of the day. About a year they can observe that there are no menstruation. After the birth of a woman who practices feeding on demand, menstruation is absent during the entire lactation period. But the menstrual cycle can resume as soon as the lure is introduced.
2. With a mixed method of feeding, when a child is immediately added artificial nutrition, the timing of recovery of the menstrual cycle is significantly reduced. After three or four months after delivery, menstruation already appears.

3. For physiological reasons or at their own will, some mothers refuse to feed the baby with their own breast milk. The body, devoid of prolactin, gets the opportunity to quickly prepare for ovulation. The egg can come out in a couple of months, or even earlier.

4. The controversy about the fact that irregular monthly after birth depends on the generic process, are devoid of any meaning. Childbirth can go naturally, or a woman can survive a cesarean section, the way the infant is fed is equally affected by the restoration of a full-fledged menstrual cycle.

Often a young mother confuses lochia with menstruation

Brown emissions have a different origin. When they appear, there are no monthly ones. After childbirth on the inner surface of the wall of the uterus, a torn wound remains. So the placenta separated. From time to time torn from inside the womb, until the new film builds up, bleeds. What comes out is called lochia. The appearance of lochia can be observed for six and eight weeks, despite the way the baby is fed. Ovulation does not occur. Therefore, excretions can not be called menstruation.

First, a woman has irregular monthly after childbirth for 2-3 cycles. That begin before the deadline, then go with a delay. All should be adjusted in some months. Otherwise, you need to contact a gynecologist.

Many women in labor are worried that if there is no monthly after delivery for a long time, then the nature of the discharge will change. As a rule, the changes are positive. Indeed, the menstrual cycle after childbirth can proceed more regularly and painlessly. Pain usually occurs in the area of the uterine bend. The birth process often corrects the wrong arrangement of the internal organs. So the discomfort disappears.