although about 50 of the population is
in possession of a vagina
because we never talk about them most of
you are still wandering around every
single day wondering if something your
vagina does
is totally normal or really strange i'm
mama doctor jones a board certified ob
gyn and mom to four
and today i'm telling you five things
your vagina might do that sounds strange
but are 100 normal if you're new here
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let's jump in to the vaginal information
number one makes discharge that's right
vaginal discharge is a hundred percent
normal your body makes vaginal discharge
to keep itself
clean and healthy did you hear that this
is how the vagina keeps
itself clean it's a self-cleaning organ
please don't put any soaps or douches or
anything like that
inside these can disrupt the vaginal
microbiome and actually cause more
problems than they help
normal vaginal discharge is a mixture of
cervical mucus
transudate or fluid from the cells of
the vagina kind of like
saliva in your mouth normal flora and
dead cells that your body needs to get
rid of it's completely normal and your
body
likes it to be there i recently made a
video all about when vaginal discharge
might be abnormal and i will link that
in the description box below if you have
any additional questions but in general
vaginal discharge is a normal part of a
healthy happy vagina
number two mix discharges that might
bleach your undies
this is something i have seen all over
tik tok some people get it right
some people get it wrong but i am here
to tell you the vaginal discharge which
discolors your dark underwear
is totally normal if you don't have a
vagina you're going to be very confused
by what i'm about to say
but is no one else completely terrified
by the bleaching properties of a vagina
like how does she do that yes i'm about
to show my underwear on the internet and
that's because i am comfortable with who
i am as a person
prefacing this by saying these are clean
underwear
like these are black underwear ba-bam
how
pink how how does she
do that
like what why does this happen the
vaginal epithelium is lined with cells
that make
glycogen and this is because glycogen
creates a happy home for a bacteria
called
lactobacilli lactobacilli is a normal
part of your healthy vaginal flora
and it converts glucose into lactic acid
lactic acid has a low ph
so the environment of the vagina is
acidic that means your vaginal discharge
is also acidic
over time that acidic vaginal discharge
can lighten
dark fabrics in your underwear no matter
what tic toc told you
this is totally normal it's
representative of a happy healthy vagina
um editing mdj here i wanted to add in
here that
i said that this is okay and it's part
of a normal happy healthy vagina because
it's related to the ph
and that is definitely true but that
doesn't mean if it doesn't happen to you
that there's something wrong or your ph
is off it can be normal either way
so in the absence of other symptoms this
is a
normal thing that can happen but not a
requirement to happen
number three makes noise this is totally
normal
some of you might call it a queef i
remember the first time i ever heard
that word i was in middle school
and some kids were just hysterically
laughing about this
despite the immaturity of seventh grade
boys this is a completely normal
physiologic process
the vagina is a blind pouch meaning it
comes to an
end so anytime air gets trapped in there
from
activity or insertion of a toy or a
penis
or anything it has to come out and the
only way for it to come out is to come
back out of vaginal opening
so with movement or activity or sex you
might hear an audible noise of air
escaping from the vagina
this is not worrisome it is totally
normal and you should be empowered to
just laugh it off
or even not laugh it off and just move
on with your life nothing to worry about
number four causes brown period blood
this is actually totally normal and is
the result of a pretty cool organic
chemistry reaction they told me i would
never need
organic chemistry again after the mcat
but they lied so when your flow is
lighter like at the beginning or end of
your period
that blood sometimes can just sit in the
vagina and as we talked about just a few
minutes ago the vagina is an acidic
environment this causes a process called
oxidation or digestion or breakdown of
the period blood
which turns it into a brown color if it
comes out just like that it might be
dark brown if it mixes with some of your
normal vaginal discharge
it might be light brown either way this
is a totally normal process and just
part of the way that your body
functions number five creates blood
clots
when you're on your period that's right
this can actually be the fault
of the vagina and not the uterus when
blood gets into the vagina sometimes it
sits there and
coagulates and that makes it into a
blood clot when you stand up or move
around or sit down to go to the bathroom
it can come out as a blood clot and this
can be totally normal
if you're having lots of blood clots and
really heavy bleeding put together
that may not be normal but if you're
having blood clots and you're bleeding
or your flow is pretty light in between
them
it may just be the way your vagina is
shaped especially if you notice it first
thing in the morning or when you've been
sitting down for a while
because sometimes that just traps the
blood inside the vagina which we
discussed as a blind pouch
and allows it to coagulate into a blood
clot this kind of means your blood is
working like it should
your blood should coagulate into a blood
clot if it's not moving but again
if you're having lots of blood clots and
really heavy bleeding put together it
may not be normal
or if you're having really large size
blood clots it may not be normal
but if you occasionally notice some
small or medium-sized blood clots
and that's not paired with other heavy
bleeding it's probably just the blood
sitting in the vagina
when you're not moving around if you
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