Bryon Daly wrote:
>
> >From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >And you don't ovulate the day after you give birth -- it can be a few
> >months.
>
> Or not! I think breastfeeding can hold off ovulation, but my wife would
> always tell her patients not to rely on that and that they needed to use
> birth control to be sure.
Breastfeeding to delay ovulation works only if you do it frequently
enough and the baby is under 6 months old. Something like, at least
every 3 hours during the day, and at least every 5 hours at night.
None of my kids needed feeding so frequently that I didn't ovulate by
the time they were 4 months old.
(Wonderfully enough, they're going a good 6-9 hours between the last
feeding before bed and the wake-up-during-the-night-hungry feeding. So
I'm getting more sleep.)
Oh, and menstruation can throw something off in the breastmilk. The
first time two of my kids dealt with that, there was protest over it.
(The third one is a lot more accepting.)
Julia
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