Menstruation in a newborn?

[Carmen2]

I was shocked seeing blood coming out from my DD2's vagina... it is not a lot, but there's a few drops every time I change her nappy. I called my nurse and she said that my baby is menstruating as she retained some of my hormones. Has anyone else experienced this with their baby? How long does it normally take for it to go away?

[Mildez]

Yes my DD1 had it. It was for a few days around the time she was 4-7days old. Then everytime I got my period she had a few tiny spots of pinky coloured blood. The dr said it was my mini pill causing it and of course she was getting it through the breast milk. That happened for 3months when I had my period then went. If it is Orange coloured like clay and speckley in appearance it could be whats called Urates which is also pretty common in the very young newborn. It comes out in the urine when they are dehydrated (usually before your milk comes in)

[Nicambhar]

Yep it's perfectly normal. My first DD had it for a day or two when she was a couple of days old. I was really shocked too.

[~Raven~]

My little girl had it too and I remember my nieces did also. Ruby had it from newborn till about a week.

[bon]

Yep, completely normal - its just hormones. See, we women are hormonal from birth!

[The[cookie]Doctor]

My DS retained my hormones and he had breast buds! DF was quite shocked but yes, all perfectly normal. It should go away soon. DS' breast buds took about six weeks to disappear but that's a bit different.

[danniellabella]

I freaked out when I saw this. My DD also had a lot of EWCM and colostrum from her nipples when she was born. It went away within 10 days though.

[Ryatha]

The hospital warned me that it might happen so when there was little bit of blood with DD I didn't worry about it. Went away after about 1 week. Don't know if it comes back as we stopped BF at 4 weeks.

[Carmen2]

This is really an interesting issue. I wonder why my grandmother or mother didn't hear about it. Do you think it's something we eat these days causing the hormones to be pass down to them? Now that I know about it, I am really curious to know why babies would have it these days and not back in the old days...