Your Period and Pregnancy

Your period during pregnancy is an important matter to understand once a woman plans to conceive a baby or even while already conceiving one. Your period or menstruation period is the determining factor of pregnancy and to compute the due date or arrival of the baby which is why most doctors ask about the last date of menstruation.

Throughout the duration of pregnancy, the regular menstruation of the woman is temporarily halted because the hormones responsible for pregnancy stop ovulation. Some women tend to have spotting or bleeding which is far from the definition of a regular menstrual period. Any excessive spotting and bleeding requires immediate medical attention especially when pain is felt on or around the abdomen area or even in the vagina. This may be attributed to some complications brought along by pregnancy.

Most bleeding normally occurs when the embryo starts to bury itself into the lining of the uterus. Generally, this happens five days after conception and is usually mistaken to be a period, especially to a woman with an irregular menstruation cycle. The medical term for this kind of bleeding is "implantation bleeding." Some bleedings also occur when the woman is unaware that she is conceiving but still continues to use birth control pills. Intermittent bleeding will occur when pregnant and taking birth control pills. Whenever this kind of situation arises, the pregnant woman has no choice but to immediately go for a pregnancy ultrasound test to check the baby's condition.

Your period and pregnancy should always be distinguishable from each other by a woman. Excessive bleeding cannot be called a regular period because it may be a miscarriage. A miscarriage is a very real threat to a mother's health and of course means the baby did not make it.