OB - MENSTRUATION

ovaries

6-7m oogonia

newborn baby girl

2m oocytes

Puberty

300,000-400,000

Reproductive Life Time

400 oocytes are ovulated

menstruation

sloughing off of the endometrial lining

Menstrual flow

blood and endometrial tissues from the inner lining of the uterus (the endometrium) within 4-7 days (ave of 5 days)

Blood loss from mens

30-80 ml

Iron loss from mens

11mg

Menarche

first period which occurs 11- 14 years of age

hypothalamus

initiator of menstrual cycle release og GnRH

Pituitary gland

release FSH

ovaries

produces estrogen, graafian follicle will develop

ovum with conception

 - corpus luteum remains (high progesterone)

ovum no conception

atrophies after 4-5 days and becomes corpus albicans (whitish tissue)

Graafian Follicle

10-14th day mature and will rupture —-- ovulation

corpus luteum (bright yellow fluid high in progesterone)

uterus 3mm thick and velvety

Hypothalamus (GnRH); Pituitary gland (LH)

13th day

increase estrogen level, decrease progesterone level

release of prostaglandins

uterus

menstrual flow )4-5 days)

mittelschmerz

lower abd pain felt at the side of the ovary

thinning of the cervical mucus (before ovulation)

- increase of cervical mucus

thinning of cervical mucus (ovulation)

- mucus will become thinner and clearer and stretchy spinnbarkeit like egg whites

thining of cx mucus and slight change in temp

two main signs of ovulation

signs of ovulation

release of egg from the right of left ovary

at random, about 5 days to travel down to fallopian tube to the uterus

temperature change

daily basal body temperature

before woman gets out of bed

when is the temperature taken

96.0 - 97.0 (35.5-36 C)

temp

dysmenorrhea

painful mens

dysmenorrhea

uterus is prompted by certain hormones to squeeze for harder than necessary to dislodge its lining

painkiller

dysmenorrhea treatment

menorrhagia

excessive or heavy bleeding

amenorrhea

absence of menstruation

metrorrhagia

bleeding between menstruation

follicular, ovulation, luteal

ovarian cycle

menses, proliferative phase, secretory phase, ischemic

uterine cycle