Will menstruation come during breastfeeding?

Now more and more new mothers choose to breastfeed, because everyone knows that breast milk is the best for babies. Many people think that menstruation will not come during breastfeeding, but some people still have many questions about this. So, will menstruation come back during breastfeeding? Let's take a look at some common sense about menstruation during breastfeeding in this article.

When will menstruation resume? In fact, it is normal to have menstruation one month after delivery, and it is also normal not to have menstruation during the breastfeeding period. There is no definite answer to this question, and it varies from person to person.

Generally speaking, during the lactation period, a new mother's milk secretion depends entirely on the hormone prolactin. When the baby sucks the breast, it stimulates the secretion of prolactin, and prolactin inhibits the secretion of estrogen, thereby inhibiting the formation of follicles. If follicles cannot be formed and eggs cannot be released, of course there will be no menstruation.

But from a medical point of view, the ovaries can ovulate 33 to 42 days after delivery. The time of menstruation resumption is closely related to the number of breastfeeding times: the more times you breastfeed and the longer the milking time, the later the menstruation will resume.

Among new mothers who do not breastfeed, 40% resume ovulation around 6 weeks after delivery. Among new mothers who breastfeed, about 25% will resume ovulation and menstruation around 12 weeks after delivery, but most will not fully recover ovulation function until 18 weeks.

When studying a new mother's first menstrual period after giving birth, people discovered a strange phenomenon: although it looks like menstruation, it is not actually menstruation. It turns out that when the first menstruation comes after childbirth, through temperature measurement, 60% of people do not ovulate. Strictly speaking, this is not ovulatory menstruation, that is, it is not true menstruation, but just menstrual-like vaginal bleeding.

After reading the introduction in this article, we know that whether or not you have menstruation during breastfeeding varies from person to person. Some people will have menstruation shortly after giving birth, while others will not have menstruation during the entire breastfeeding period. However, we must remind everyone that regardless of whether you have menstruation during breastfeeding, you should do a good job of contraception to avoid accidental pregnancy.