First Period After Birth: Depending On Breastfeeding

When the first period begins after birth, varies from woman to woman. A role, however, also plays, how long you breastfeed your child.

When the first period comes after the birth? This may also be dependent on the lactation.

After the birth of a child a state of emergency in the body. Until the period has stabilized again after birth, or until she ever begins again, therefore, a lot of time pass. Some women have until the rule starts again for over a year rest, others can already go back a few weeks after childbirth. It often takes longer again until the period has regained her normal rhythm after birth, sometimes changed this after the birth of a child, even in principle. "Normal is only times everything," said the gynecologist Dorte Meise at "baby-und-familie.de". However, an ovulation earlier than three weeks after giving birth is possible. Then again takes two weeks until the bleeding insets - so usually it takes at least five to six weeks before the first period after giving birth.

Lag Breastfeeding: period after birth

Whoever quenches his child, has usually longer rest until the period returns after birth. For the production of milk during breastfeeding, the body produces the hormone prolactin, so changes the hormonal balance, which also affects the menstrual period. The prolactin restricts the egg maturation in the ovaries, so nursing mothers often wait longer before their menstrual period begins again. Preventing you should at this time but still, if you do not want to get pregnant again. The likelihood of ovulation declining during lactation indeed, exclude all, he did not let himself. "All couples should six weeks after giving birth prevent" Dorte Meisel therefore advises. Important here is that the contraceptives do not affect breast milk, as it can do the hormones of the pill.

From week to menstrual flow

Before the period resumes after birth, it comes to the so-called lochia. They are bleeding, which occur when the wound area heals, which is caused by the detachment of the placenta from the uterine wall. The lochia changes over time its color from a bright red bleeding into white discharge - with the period, the lasting between three to six weeks lochia nothing to do.