Reproductive system, which during pregnancy and the birth of a baby carrying the main burden, comes to the senses gradually. One of the signs of its recovery is lochia, that is, postpartum discharge.
It is important to control the process of their removal and everything that happens later. By what and when will be the monthly after lousy, you can judge about the female health of the newly mummy.
What is it?
The fetus of the entire pregnancy is in the uterus, which provides it with development and nutrition through the blood vessels. Its shells are securely attached to the mucous organ until the delivery is completed.
The separation of the placenta tissue occurs with damage to the capillaries. Naturally, the inner surface of the uterus is a bleeding wound after birth.
When everything goes well, it starts to drag out. But the healing of tissues is not complete without liberation from all unnecessary. This is the postpartum period or lochia, as specialists call it.
Allocations begin to go to the woman from the first days after the appearance of the baby.
The difference between menstruation and postpartum discharge
Inexperienced mummies may take discharge after delivery for menstruation. In fact, they are similar only in appearance, and even then only initially.
The composition of lochia is a part of endometrial tissue, the remains of membranes, blood from injured vessels, cervical mucus.
In the menstrual secretions, the main components are also the upper layer of the uterine lining of the uterus, separated by its neck, the contents of the damaged capillaries. But they do not have a hint of placental tissue, but there are remains of a degraded egg.
Than the lochia differ from the monthly ones, so it is the changes that occur with the secretions over time:
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The difference between the monthly and the bad
The first have a red color at the beginning, when the blood in them is a significant part. With the healing and restoration of the vessels, the lochia acquires a brown shade, brighten, becoming creamy or transparent. If at once clots were observed in them, then to the end the mucus acquires uniformity;
- Menstruation can have a brown color at the beginning and at the end, when the blood lingers in the cavity longer. But in them it is always present;
- Duration of removal of postpartum and menstrual emissions is not the same. A simple way how to distinguish between a lochia and a monthly one is to calculate the number of days in which they are observed. Postpartum discharge goes 4-8 weeks. Menstrual in norm - no more than 7 days.
Uterus in lochia tends to acquire normal size, decreasing. The cervical canal narrows. Menstruation makes the body swollen, and its neck, on the contrary, is slightly opened.
An important difference between men and women is their nature. Menstruation is regulated by sex hormones so that they lead the endometrium to a certain state. Then their volume drops sharply, which causes its rejection.
When does the first menstruation after childbirth begin?
There are women who are forced to worry about whether a losal can begin after a month. The body "notes" the appearance of a newborn with an increase in prolactin in the blood. This hormone is maintained in a large enough amount throughout the pregnancy, thus ensuring the production of milk.
While Prolactin is high, and the baby is breast-fed, other active substances do not have such an effect on the body. And menstruation is delayed for several months.
But it does not happen to everyone. Some women from the first days are forced to give the baby only artificial mixtures due to lack of milk. Then the restoration of menstrual function proceeds more quickly, simultaneously with the healing of the inner covering of the uterus. Then the monthly ones can happen right after the lop-dog in a few days.
We recommend that you read an article on the possibility of menstruation during pregnancy. You will learn about the compatibility of pregnancy with menstruation, the danger of bloody discharge, the threat of miscarriage and ectopic development of the fetus.
How to distinguish menstruation from a pathological condition?
After coming from the maternity home to her home, the woman must control her own discharge to avoid or at least keep track of the complications.
One of them is that the monthly ones found after lochia can be a bleeding.
Most often it causes the left in the uterine cavity tissues, which normally should have been released, but for some reason they were delayed.
By this time, the tissue remains begin to decompose, causing a pathological purulent process and a corresponding unpleasant odor. And the discharge becomes bloody again, but with a yellow or green admixture, which is a deviation from the norm.
You need to follow it more carefully, because now the health of a woman is important not only for her, but also for the newborn.