explain everything about a women's cycle please?

Question

so i'm a woman, and i figure it's such a shame that i still dont understand exactly how my cycle works. like i really should!

can somebody please explain it ALL to me as clearly and simply as possible? i mean like explain everything, menstruation, ovulation, and everything in between? i sort of know what it all means, but don't really understand how everythin works together and when and why....i don't know!

so please just explain it as if u were explainin it to like a 10 year old child?

thnx so much in advance xoxoxo

Answer 1

Im lucky my highschool health teacher explained this to me back in the 10th grade. A lot of women don't even know why they even bleed when they have their periods!

Well.. lets start it from here...

Lets say you have finished your last period and that was at the 1st of the month. Since you've emptied out all the blood in your uterus, it's time for it to collect new highly nutriuous blood. Your uterus will line itself with your vitamin rich blood, it's your body's way of getting prepared for a baby if you ever got pregnant that month.

Every women is born with 2 ovaries on the one is located on the left side and the other the right. These ovaries take turns releasing an egg every month. One month an egg is released from the left ovary and the next month an egg is released from the right ovary, very rarely does the same ovary release an egg twice in 2 months, unless of course the woman has a medical condition where one of her ovaries isn't working.

Hence comes the word Ovulation, its when an egg (Ovum) pops out of your ovaries. This occurs 14+/- days later since you last finished your period. So this should occur around the 14th of the month if you started your period at the 1st. Why does it take 14+/- days for an egg to pop up? Well thats mostly because it takes a while for your uterus to fill up with nuritious blood again and of course nature.

Once you have Ovulated (Ovulation) this is the only time you can get pregnant. An egg can survive any where between 1-3 days depending on your age and health, if you dont get pregnant that month the egg dies within your body. Here the egg travels down from the ovaries to the Fallopian tubes to finally the uterus. The fallopian tube is a passage where the egg travles, it has a tiny bunch of finger-like organisms that has a ryhmtic motion that gently pushes the egg to the uterus.

So once again its around another 12+ days or so before you start your period again. Your uterus says "All right ladies we had a false alarm this month!! Time for her to have her period again" That means your period should start at around the 28th of the month ..and the process starts all over again. Most womens cycles varies but typically is around 28-31 days :)

Answer 2

Starting immediately after the period (bleeding) ends:
The body rebuilds the lining of the uterus (womb) to be ready to receive the egg if fertilized. The womb is located in the center of the body just above and behind the hard bone (pubic bone) just where the legs meet.
One or more eggs released from the ovaries (egg holders) and proceed down the Fallopian tubes which connect the ovaries to the womb. The ovaries are located to either side of the womb.
During the time of travel, if sperm are introduced into the vagina, fertilization may occur. The vagina is the tube which opens between the legs behind the pubic bone.
If fertilization occurs, the egg is supposed to attach to the womb wall and initiate hormonal changes to support pregnancy.
If no fertilization occurs, the lining of the womb sluffs off and the material drains out as a bloody discharge - the period.
In most women, the whole cycle takes about 28 days and the period lasts 3-5 days although both can vary between women and between months in each woman.

Answer 3

the cycle begins
Did you know that when a baby girl is born, she has all the eggs her body will ever use, and many more, perhaps as many as 450,000? They are stored in her ovaries, each inside its own sac called a follicle. As she matures into puberty, her body begins producing various hormones that cause the eggs to mature. This is the beginning of her first cycle; it's a cycle that will repeat throughout her life until the end of menopause.

Let's start with the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is a gland in the brain responsible for regulating the body's thirst, hunger, sleep patterns, libido and endocrine functions. It releases the chemical messenger Follicle Stimulating Hormone Releasing Factor (FSH-RF) to tell the pituitary, another gland in the brain, to do its job. The pituitary then secretes Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and a little Leutenizing Hormone (LH) into the bloodstream which cause the follicles to begin to mature.

The maturing follicles then release another hormone, estrogen. As the follicles ripen over a period of about seven days, they secrete more and more estrogen into the bloodstream. Estrogen causes the lining of the uterus to thicken. It causes the cervical mucous to change. When the estrogen level reaches a certain point it causes the hypothalmus to release Leutenizing Hormone Releasing Factor (LH-RF) causing the pituitary to release a large amount of Leutenizing Hormone (LH). This surge of LH triggers the one most mature follicle to burst open and release an egg. This is called ovulation. [Many birth control pills work by blocking this LH surge, thus inhibiting the release of an egg.]

Answer 4

This is a great website - very easy to understand.

http://www.knowmycycle.com/phases-menstrual-cycle.aspx?WT.mc_ID=10001&WT.srch=1&WTmc_ev=click