IS A MISSED PERIOD ALWAYS THE FIRST SIGN OF A PREGNANCY?
Usually it is – however, not every missed period necessarily means a pregnancy. There can be a great many causes for a missed period, many of them emotional.
Girls studying hard for exams may miss periods; so may girls leaving home and starting a new job, or traveling abroad, or falling in love or out of it, or suffering bereavement.
The close link between emotions and hormones is the cause of this sort of reaction. Also, physical illnesses may lead to missed periods, including anemia, thyroid disorders and diabetes (both these latter are hormonal) or experiencing surgery or an accident.
However, in a woman of reproductive age living a full sex life without the use of contraception, a missed period should be regarded as very indicative of pregnancy.
One problem which may bewilder is the ‘half missed’ period. Some women, early in pregnancy, experience at the usual period time a small blood loss which is much less than the normal period but which she naturally regards as a period.
In fact what is happening is that the hormone control of the pregnancy is not quite as perfect as it might be, and the period ‘slips through’ the control system though to a limited degree.
This naturally confuses both the mother and her doctors later on, when the periods do in fact stop, because pregnancy dates are normally computed from the last period and may also lead to concern, since it may seem that the bleeding is a threatened miscarriage . In a few isolated cases periods of this type may continue throughout the first six months of the pregnancy.
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