Im­plan­ta­tion blee­ding

If an egg cell meets a sperm cell du­ring the fer­tile days, fer­ti­liza­tion can occur. The fer­ti­lized egg tra­vels th­rough the fallo­pian tubes into the uterus and nests in the li­ning of the uterus. At this time, im­plan­ta­tion blee­ding may occur.

The uterus is cris­scrossed with de­li­cate blood ves­sels that are so­me­times da­maged du­ring im­plan­ta­tion of the egg. This is how im­plan­ta­tion blee­ding oc­curs, also called “ni­da­tion blee­ding” or “im­plan­ta­tion blee­ding.” This blee­ding may be stronger or weaker, or may not occur at all. Ac­cor­ding to one study, it oc­curs in 15 to 25% of all women.

Im­plan­ta­tion blee­ding oc­curs — as the name sug­gests — at the time of im­plan­ta­tion of the egg into the uterus. This usually oc­curs five to seven days after fer­ti­liza­tion. Ap­pro­xi­m­ately twelve days after fer­ti­liza­tion, the pro­cess of ni­da­tion is com­plete — blee­ding can occur up to this point. To cor­rectly de­ter­mine the time of im­plan­ta­tion blee­ding for your own cycle, you should know the day of your ovu­la­tion and use this as a basis for cal­cu­la­tion.

The strength of this blee­ding va­ries from woman to woman. It can be so weak that it does not come out th­rough the va­gina and is the­r­e­fore not no­ticed at all. Very often, women no­tice only very few drops or streaks of blood.

Pain in the ab­domen can have many causes. It can in­di­cate that ovu­la­tion is ap­proa­ching, that mens­trua­tion is im­mi­nent, but also that a fer­ti­lized egg has im­planted.

If small blood ves­sels are in­jured du­ring the im­plan­ta­tion phase, this can be felt as a slight pul­ling sen­sa­tion or a lo­ca­lized pain. Ho­wever, the so-called ni­da­tion pain has not yet been sci­en­ti­fi­cally proven.

Women who have been wai­ting for a baby for a very long time ob­serve their bo­dies very clo­sely du­ring the child­bea­ring phase. It can happen that every ch­ange is in­ter­preted as a pos­sible sign of pregnancy. Minor blee­dings can have very dif­fe­rent causes — only one of them is im­plan­ta­tion blee­ding.

If you want to have a baby, you want to know as early as pos­sible whe­ther pregnancy has worked. If you don’t want to wait for your pe­riod, you can do a pregnancy test a little ear­lier.

Im­plan­ta­tion blee­ding in­di­cates that the fer­ti­lized egg has im­planted in the li­ning of the uterus. At this time, the body be­gins to pro­duce the pregnancy hor­mone HCG (human cho­rionic go­na­do­tropin). Some early tests de­tect HCG as early as six to eight days after fer­ti­liza­tion of the egg, which is two to four days after im­plan­ta­tion. Ho­wever, since im­plan­ta­tion blee­ding does not ne­ces­s­a­rily occur on the first day of im­plan­ta­tion, there is no re­liable pre­dic­tion of when a test is useful. It is more than 90% re­liable from the 14th day after ovu­la­tion. A me­dical ex­ami­na­tion also pro­vides cla­rity.

At Fer­tilly, we have made it our mis­sion to ac­com­pany cou­ples (ho­mo­se­xual and he­te­ro­se­xual) and sin­gles on the way to ful­fil­ling their child wish. In doing so, it is im­portant to us to create trans­pa­rency in the area of fer­ti­lity ser­vices, to pro­vide in­for­ma­tion and know­ledge on the to­pics of pregnancy and fer­ti­lity and to help you to find the most sui­table Fer­ti­lity Center. Th­rough co­ope­ra­tion with first-class Fer­ti­lity Cen­tres and cli­nics in Eu­rope, en­qui­ries about Fer­tilly are given pre­fe­ren­tial tre­at­ment. This means that our pa­ti­ents avoid the usually long wai­ting times and get ap­point­ments more quickly.

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