A lot of women can experiment the episodes of vaginal bleeding during their pregnancy. Vaginal bleeding are more common in the first trimester of pregnancy (30% from the pregnant women have vaginal bleeding in the first trimester). Even if by far less women have vaginal bleeding during the second and the third trimester of pregnancy, this thing is not so unusual. Even if this bleeding looks like the menstruation, they are, in fact, something else.
Why cannot you have period during pregnancy? Menstruation is caused by menstrual cycle. During the menstrual cycle your body produces hormones, which transmit signals to your genital organs in order to do specific actions. The increase of the hormonal quantity makes that your ovaries release an egg, which “travels” from the ovaries through the Fallopian tubes. Meanwhile, a protective cover of blood and tissue is thickened along the walls of the uterus. All these factors cause the menstruation.
During the pregnancy your body is working almost exclusively to take care of the baby. Your brain sends signals to the ovaries to stop a menstrual cycle, in order to have the possibility to offer the baby a propitious medium where the baby will develop and grow well. As result, instead of decreasing, the level of your hormones will raise constantly in the next nine months. This thing helps the uterus to get prepared for the growing and feeding of your baby.
If your organism continues to have the menstruation in the next nine months, while you are pregnant, the process will lead to the elimination in every month of the protective cover (which is helping the baby to feed) along the walls of the uterus. Biologically speaking, it would not be logic that this thing would happen. Therefore, you cannot have period during pregnancy and those bleedings during the time when you are pregnant and that many women experiment, are not related with the menstruation.
Decidual bleeding – one of the most common bleeding similar with the menstruation is the decidual bleeding. Sometimes, during the pregnancy, the hormones that your body produces can “go crazy” and are able to cause the detachment of some of the parts from the protective cover along the walls of the uterus. It is demonstrated that this affection is very common in the first trimester of pregnancy, before that the protective cover had been completely stuck to the placenta.
Even if it may be an unpleasant sensation, the decidual bleeding does not present any risks of health for you or for your baby. There are many reasons why you may have bleeding during the pregnancy. Most of them no not present any risks for you and your baby. If you are pregnant it is indicated to keep under observation all these bleeding. If you have abnormal bleeding during the pregnancy you must contact the doctor immediately.