Is It True That Breastfeeding Can Prevent Pregnancy?

Globe Medicine - For the mother that breastfeeding after birth, will likely experience a delay in menstruation. This is because breastfeeding mothers have the hormone prolactin. The maker of hormone breast milk (BREAST MILK) is also pressing the release of hormones that served to ripen and fertilize the eggs as well as form the lining of the uterus to maintain fertile egg cell.

The delay menstruation naturally is called lactation amenorrhea (lactational amenorrhea – LAM). In this way, as long as the mother nursing newborn up to a few months, the mother can not get pregnant or in other words the mother are not fertile. It may be the body's natural way of telling you that the entire capacity of the body of the mother only capable to handle a newborn and was not ready to have a baby again.LAM is known to be effective in preventing pregnancy if the Mother meets some condition.

Here are some of the conditions that could make breast feeding may prevent the next pregnancy.

The mother has not been menstruation after childbirth or after childbirth

When the mother has experienced menstruation, that already can no longer rely onthe natural period of breastfeeding as a contraceptive and can get pregnant anytime. However, there are also approximately five percent of the nursing mothers who get pregnant before their menstruation post-birth. This is because women are fertilephase around the time of ovulation, i.e. 12 to 16 days before menstruation.

The baby must be a maximum of six months
The mother needs to use other methods of contraception to prevent pregnancy after a six-month-old baby. At this point, the mother has become more likely to get pregnant again.

The mother must give BREAST MILK exclusively
This means that babies receive only BREAST MILK directly and not from a bottle. Give BREAST MILK every 2-3 hours during the day or as often as the needs of the baby.In addition, give also BREAST MILK at night with the distance of time between feeding no more than six hours. This is because the hormone levels of fertility Mother tends to be highest during the hours of sleep, so the Mother need to breastfeed at night so that the hormone prolactin depresses fertility hormones. When the baby had started to sleep through the night without asking a fertility hormone breast milk, could be back at work as usual, which means that the mother is not already in the phase of LAM.

While for the introduction of solid food, wait until baby is at least six months. Set upthe giving solid foods in addition to, not a substitute for breast milk. When the babies were given solids begin to reduce the consumption of BREAST MILK, meaning the mother should reduce feeding solid so that he could return increases the intake ofbreast milk. Research has shown that breastfeeding Moms who practice it do this step can have periods of LAM on average for 14 months before menstruation and fertile again.

But LAM can be not effective longer when baby can sleep longer at night and naturally gives the distance in BREAST MILK, but the mother increases the feeding solid over the age of the baby. Then, how would it be if the mother has not been in a period of LAM and has been declared positive pregnant again?

The mother was declared safe to Breastfeed while pregnantThe mother can continue breastfeeding while pregnant. Never worry about a shortage of nutrients to produce enough BREAST MILK while simultaneously nourish the growing baby in the womb. By eating healthy food and balanced and consistent in fulfilling your intake of fluids, the mother can meet all the needs that. However, breastfeeding while pregnant are different to the conditions feeding when not pregnant. The mother will find some changes here.

• Breast-feeding becomes less comfortable. During pregnancy, breast and nipple pain is common, coupled with the fatigue associated with pregnancy hormones make pregnant mothers who are breastfeeding discomfort becoming more noticeably.
• Toddlers become less tasteful consuming breast milk. When the baby can already talk, he will probably reveal that the taste of BREAST MILK to be different. In fact, tasteBREAST MILK would be different because toward the end of pregnancy, the motheris producing colostrum, namely condensed milk yellowish.
• Mild contractions occur. Sometimes the mother experienced some mild contractions, but not to worry because this is normal as a result of stimulation on the breast that sparked the release of the hormone oxytocin. However in the conditions of a normal pregnancy, hormone levels is not to trigger early labor. In spite of this contractionis not a concern during pregnancy without complications, your doctor likely will prevent nursing while pregnant if the mother at risk of undergoing labor prematurely.

Basically, the length varies in each woman's LAM and is not predictable. Therefore, to prevent a pregnancy after the birth of the baby, the mother can use contraceptionin the form of condoms, birth control pills that contain only progestin Depo-Proverainjections, or contraceptives that were planted in the womb (IUD).