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What is Menstruation?

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Menstruation — aka having your period — is when blood and tissue from your uterus comes out of your vagina. It usually happens every month.

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What is menstruation?

Menstruation — aka having your period — is when blood and tissue from your uterus comes out of your vagina. It usually happens every month.

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What’s the menstrual cycle?

Your menstrual cycle helps your body prepare for pregnancy every month. It also makes you have a period if you’re not pregnant. Your menstrual cycle and period are controlled by hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Here’s how it all goes down:

You have 2 ovaries, and each one holds a bunch of eggs. The eggs are super tiny — too small to see with the naked eye.

During your menstrual cycle, hormones make the eggs in your ovaries mature — when an egg is mature, that means it’s ready to be fertilized by a sperm cell. These hormones also make the lining of your uterus thick and spongy. So if your egg does get fertilized, it has a nice cushy place to land and start a pregnancy. This lining is made of tissue and blood, like almost everything else inside our bodies. It has lots of nutrients to help a pregnancy grow.

About halfway through your menstrual cycle, your hormones tell one of your ovaries to release a mature egg — this is called ovulation. Most people don’t feel it when they ovulate, but some ovulation symptoms are bloating, spotting, or a little pain in your lower belly that you may only feel on one side.

Once the egg leaves your ovary, it travels through one of your fallopian tubes toward your uterus.



Menstruation — aka having your period — is when blood and tissue from your uterus comes out of your vagina. It usually happens every month.

Your menstrual cycle helps your body prepare for pregnancy every month. It also makes you have a period if you’re not pregnant. Your menstrual cycle and period are controlled by hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Here’s how it all goes down:

You have 2 ovaries, and each one holds a bunch of eggs. The eggs are super tiny — too small to see with the naked eye.

During your menstrual cycle, hormones make the eggs in your ovaries mature — when an egg is mature, that means it’s ready to be fertilized by a sperm cell. These hormones also make the lining of your uterus thick and spongy. So if your egg does get fertilized, it has a nice cushy place to land and start a pregnancy. This lining is made of tissue and blood, like almost everything else inside our bodies. It has lots of nutrients to help a pregnancy grow.

About halfway through your menstrual cycle, your hormones tell one of your ovaries to release a mature egg — this is called ovulation. Most people don’t feel it when they ovulate, but some ovulation symptoms are bloating, spotting, or a little pain in your lower belly that you may only feel on one side.

Once the egg leaves your ovary, it travels through one of your fallopian tubes toward your uterus.

If pregnancy doesn’t happen, your body doesn’t need the thick lining in your uterus. Your lining breaks down, and the blood, nutrients, and tissue flow out of your body through your vagina. Voilà, it’s your period!

If you do get pregnant, your body needs the lining — that’s why your period stops during pregnancy. Your period comes back when you’re not pregnant anymore.

At some point during puberty, blood comes out of your vagina, and that's your first period. Most people get their first period between ages 12 and 14, but some people get them earlier or later than that. There's no way to know exactly when you’ll get it, but you may feel some PMS symptoms (link to PMS section) a few days before it happens.

If you don't get your period by the time you're 16, it’s a good idea to visit a doctor or nurse. up

Most people stop getting their period when they’re between 45 and 55 years old — this is called menopause. Menopause can take a few years, and periods usually change gradually during this time. After menopause is totally complete, you can’t get pregnant anymore. 

Your period may start and stop around the time it did for other people you’re related to, like your mom or sisters.

Answer 2

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$\orange\bigstar$What is menstruation?

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$\longrightarrow$Menstruation or periods is the flow of waste blood from the body of women through vagina.

$\longrightarrow$It is also called vaginal bleeding. This flow occurs once in a month in the body of women. And it remains for about a week.

$\longrightarrow$It is a normal part of women's montly cycle.

$\longrightarrow$The menstrual blood is partly blood and partly tissue from inside the uterus.

$\longrightarrow$Menstruation occurs in cycle.