How often do you menstruate after delivery?
How long does the new mother have normal menstruation after delivery? This question should confuse many new mothers. No matter how you search, you will find that everyone has different opinions, there is no unified standard, and you can't really measure whether your menstrual time is normal. So how long does it take for menstruation to be normal after natural delivery?
After the delivery of the fetus, the vaginal secretion of the lying-in woman contains blood, necrotic decidual tissue and cervical mucus, which is called lochia. Normal lochia smells of blood, but it doesn't stink. Lochiorrhea can be divided into three types.
One is bloody lochia. Normal lochia smells of blood, but it doesn't stink. This is the secretion discharged from postpartum 1~4 days, with large amount and bright red color, which contains blood, decidual tissue and mucus, similar to menstruation, or slightly more than menstrual flow, and sometimes blood clots.
The second is serous lochia. This is about 4~6 days after delivery, with reddish color, a small amount of blood, mucus and more vaginal secretions, as well as bacteria.
The third is white lochia. This is a white or yellowish lochia discharged one week after delivery, which contains a lot of white blood cells, decidual cells and bacteria. It looks like leucorrhea, but it is more than usual.
Although every parturient has lochia, the amount discharged by each parturient is different, and the average total amount is about 500~ 1000 ml. The duration of continuous lochia discharge varies from woman to woman. Normal pregnant women are cleaned for about 3 weeks. If lochia is still dripping more than 2 months after delivery, it belongs to lochia. The common causes are intrauterine infection, intrauterine pregnancy such as placenta and decidua, and incomplete uterine recovery. If lochia is unclean for one month after delivery, accompanied by foul or putrid smell, or accompanied by abdominal pain and fever, it may be an infection of vagina, uterus, fallopian tube and ovary; If the discharge of lochia keeps increasing, the color turns red and dark day by day, or there is blood stasis, or there is uterine bleeding, vaginal trauma, or infection, so that lochia continues to be unclean, it is necessary to pay enough attention to it and go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time to ensure the health of puerperal women.
Traditional Chinese medicine weight loss method for postpartum obesity
Many women usually take a lot of supplements to restore their physical strength and supplement their nutrition during confinement. However, in many cases, due to excessive calorie intake and lack of exercise after delivery, too much fat will be deposited in the abdomen, leading to out-of-shape figure. In addition, the increase of hormones in women during pregnancy, as well as the gap caused by postpartum physical conditions and slow metabolism will lead to postpartum obesity.
It is normal for women to be obese after childbirth, but many female friends are worried about whether postpartum obesity will be reduced. In fact, as long as you exercise properly during pregnancy and postpartum and plan your diet reasonably, you can still recover your body after childbirth.
How to prevent postpartum obesity, do more exercise after childbirth. Postpartum exercise can alleviate the physical discomfort and dysfunction caused by childbirth, mainly to assist the pelvis to restore ligament arrangement, restore the function of abdominal and pelvic muscles, and restore the position of organs in the pelvis. Maternal women can do some moderate postpartum exercise within 6 months after delivery to control postpartum weight gain. In addition, postpartum obesity can also be controlled by diet. Under the premise of ensuring a certain nutritional intake, controlling diet in a planned way is also a way to control weight gain.
As we all know, many women will undergo great changes after giving birth, including postpartum obesity, which is a very normal physiological phenomenon. So what are the causes of postpartum obesity in women? Let's take a look!
One of the causes of postpartum obesity in women is the temporary disorder of hypothalamus-gonad function during pregnancy, especially the imbalance of fat metabolism and excessive hormones, which leads to serious obesity. On the other hand, it is because of excessive nutrition intake during confinement. "confinement" is a tradition in China. After giving birth to a child, women should recuperate their bodies during confinement and return to normal physical condition. Especially lactating women, they need a lot of supplements to have enough milk to feed their children. However, because women eat a lot of high-fat and high-protein foods, their intake of nutrients greatly exceeds their needs, and they lack exercise to consume calories, which will eventually lead to postpartum obesity.