Hormonal adjustment in the postpartum period

After you have given birth to the baby, you have a postpartum period. You should know its main features in order to avoid possible health problems. How does the postpartum period? How quickly is the body restored after childbirth? How do hormonal changes occur in the postpartum period? All this must know the woman who gave birth, to be able to keep their health.

The first two hours after birth, the uterus contracts, the bleeding stops, the uterine vessels are gradually closed by blood clots. If the bleeding does not stop, but on the contrary, it increases, it is life-threatening, so a woman and an obstetrician watch the birth of a woman in the first hours after delivery.

The condition of a woman after a successful delivery is usually normal. The body temperature may be slightly increased. Chills and fever are consequences of increased stress during labor. The first days after childbirth can hold a high body temperature.

Also, after childbirth, blood pressure may drop because of the termination of uteroplacental blood circulation and because of contraction of the uterus. Soon the pressure will return to normal.

In the first days after childbirth, the woman's body is physically restructured. At this time, there may be problems with bowel function. The tone of the rectum after delivery is reduced, and digestion is slow, so at first the mother does not want to go to the toilet "for the most part." If you can not empty the intestine for several days, you can use an enema, laxative candles. To the uterus to reduce in time, you need to empty the bowel in time, so that it does not squeeze anything.

Also after childbirth, hemorrhoidal nodes often become inflamed. With them to cope will help warm lotions from broth of a camomile or a balm Shostakovskogo.

Problems with urination - another postpartum "headache". If in the first days after childbirth a woman can not urinate, then in the subsequent time urine may be released involuntarily when sneezing, coughing, and laughing. This suggests that during the birth you stretched the muscle of the bladder. In order for the muscle to recover, do exercises: squeeze and relax the vagina, empty the bladder in several ways, restraining urine.

The walls of the uterus gradually thicken more and more after the birth, and the cervix of the uterus comes to a normal position - it narrows. If immediately after the birth the fist enters the uterus, then within two hours after birth only two fingers will pass, and in two days - one finger will barely enter. Zev of the cervix is ​​finally closed only three weeks after delivery. And his normal weight (about 80g) the uterus reaches even later - about 6 weeks after childbirth. If childbirth is repeated, the recovery process takes even more time.

Due to the fact that the genital tract after childbirth are open, there is a great danger of infection by microorganisms of the deepest parts of the sexual organs of a woman. Moreover, the conditions of the genital tract after childbirth are the most optimal for the reproduction of various microorganisms and bacteria. The uterus at this time is wounded by the generic process, during its healing, a special secret is separated from it, which is called lochia. At first, fuckers bloody. On the fourth day they become brownish or brown, and then whitish-yellow. After 10 days, the fuckers may look like ordinary discharge.

Proceeding from this, after giving birth, women's hygiene should be especially careful. It is necessary to wash out after each urination and emptying of the intestine in order to minimize the risk of severe inflammatory diseases of the genitals. For washing, use a solution of manganese. For personal hygiene after birth, use gaskets. If during the delivery you were stitched to the perineal region, then non-observance of the rules of hygiene can lead to their inflammation and even to a discrepancy.

After birth, you need to get out of bed within a day, if there are no contraindications. Restore motor activity immediately, as you have risen, so you will avoid various problems with the vessels of the uterus. The more actively you move, the faster your stool and urination will improve, the reproductive organs will be restored. From the first day after the birth it is necessary to perform physical exercises, so that the body can recover faster.

- Raise your arms to the sides, straining the abdominal muscles.

- Pull up your legs, bent at the knees to your stomach, spread your feet in different directions, take them back.

- Bend the legs in the knees, raise the pelvis up, lingering in this state for 5s.

- From the prone position, sit down and reach for your toes, return to the starting position.

- Do the exercise "bike" for the legs lying on the back.
Also hormonal reorganization of a female organism begins. After delivery, the endocrine system changes. Steroid hormones of the placenta are excreted from the woman's body, the development of a new lactogen hormone, prolactin, begins. In this regard, by the fourth day after childbirth, there is an inflow of milk to the mammary glands. The mammary glands swell, the nipples become coarse.

Menstruation is restored in non-breastfed women by the 6th week after childbirth, and in nursing menstruation they are restored only after a period of breastfeeding of the baby.

In general, the recovery of the female body (hormonal and physical) after childbirth takes about a year. At this time you need to carefully monitor your health.