Is it easy to get pregnant with less menstrual flow?

Many female friends experience light menstrual flow, so they are very afraid that light menstrual flow will affect pregnancy. People often say that light menstrual flow makes it difficult to get pregnant. So is there any truth to this? Is there a direct connection between light menstrual flow and pregnancy? In fact, it is not easy to answer this question because we have to distinguish what causes light menstrual flow.

There are many factors that cause light menstrual flow, so we cannot simply answer whether light menstrual flow will affect pregnancy. We need to treat it differently. Light menstrual flow caused by different factors has different relationships with pregnancy.

Whether a woman is fertile or not depends mainly on whether she has a complete neuroendocrine system and healthy reproductive organs, especially whether her ovaries develop normally. The amount of menstruation not only depends on the above-mentioned physiological basis, but is also closely related to many factors such as psychology, external environment, and living habits. Can scanty menstruation lead to infertility? In fact, it depends on whether you really have a small amount of menstrual flow, and then it depends on what causes the small amount of menstrual flow. Let’s analyze several situations below.

1. The menstrual volume is small, but the ovarian function is normal and does not affect pregnancy. The normal range of a woman's menstrual volume is relatively large, approximately between 80 and 100 ml. Some women have less menstrual flow, which is within the normal range, but their ovarian ovulation function and female hormone secretion function are both within the normal range. Therefore, these women are still fertile.

2. If the menstrual volume is small and is not caused by the reproductive system or endocrine system, there is a certain probability of fertility. If a woman's menstrual flow is too small, it may be due to systemic wasting diseases such as tuberculosis, malnutrition, anemia, or mental factors such as tension, depression, fear, fatigue, environmental changes, etc. A certain proportion of women whose menstrual flow is too small due to these factors can still have children.

3. Small menstrual volume caused by endocrine and other factors may affect pregnancy. If the menstrual flow is too small or even amenorrhea is caused by diseases such as endocrine dysfunction, tumors, and uterine hypoplasia, the chance of infertility will greatly increase. However, if it is only a temporary endocrine disorder, such as emotional tension, environmental changes, increased psychological pressure, or sudden stimulation, as long as the above temporary factors disappear, menstruation can return to normal. Therefore, this situation does not affect pregnancy.

4. Low estrogen levels in the body can cause the endometrium to not grow thick enough and result in less bleeding during menstruation, which can affect conception. However, for girls who have just started their menarche, the secretion of estrogen in their bodies has not yet reached a balanced and stable state, so the amount of menstrual blood is generally not much. This is normal and will not affect conception.

5. Malnutrition may cause too little menstrual blood flow or even amenorrhea, which may affect pregnancy. This situation not only causes poor development of the reproductive system such as the uterus, laying the hidden danger of future infertility, but also causes a decline in the body's immune function, creating conditions for the invasion of diseases.

In the above article, we introduced many questions of female friends, whether it is easy to get pregnant with light menstruation. In the above article, we introduced in detail the relationship between light menstruation and pregnancy caused by different factors. In fact, not all light menstruation will lead to pregnancy, we have to treat them differently.