What is vaginal bleeding in newborns?

Newborns are the treasures of their parents. However, some mothers find faint blood stains on their children's diapers when changing their diapers. They feel very strange and don't know why such a young child has vaginal bleeding. So, what is the cause of vaginal bleeding in newborns? Let’s take a closer look at it below.

It is generally believed that this physiological neonatal vaginal bleeding is caused by the estrogen in the mother's body entering the baby's body through the placenta when the baby is in the mother's womb. After the baby is born, the estrogen level in the body drops rapidly, and the baby's uterine mucosa loses the effect of estrogen, so it falls off and bleeds, forming "false menstruation."

Vaginal bleeding in newborn girls is usually a normal phenomenon and parents generally do not need to worry. However, if the amount of bleeding is heavy or lasts for a long time, parents must take the baby to the hospital in time to rule out the possibility of disease.

For false menstruation in newborn girls, the mother does not need to do any special treatment for physiological vaginal bleeding. She just needs to change the baby's diaper in time and clean up the secretions.

In addition to vaginal bleeding, some newborn girls sometimes have white, yellow or transparent secretions on the vulva. The reason for this secretion in the vagina of baby girls is the same as vaginal bleeding, which is also because the sudden decrease in estrogen causes changes in the endometrium. Parents who are caring for their baby can gently wipe her with a cotton swab dipped in clean water.

The above is an introduction to what causes vaginal bleeding in newborns. I hope it will be helpful to parents. Vaginal bleeding in newborns is false menstruation, so parents don’t need to worry too much. Generally, bleeding does not have any unusual smell, but if the secretions have an unusual smell, parents should pay attention to it and go to a regular hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time.