Breastfeeding In Preventing Pregnancy
Usually the mother who gives milk (lakstasi) will experience a delay to re-gain her periods.
LAM Method - The Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) is one technique that contraception or natural family planning is based on exclusive breast-feeding mother will cause not menstruating.
Research suggests that women who give their babies breast milk exclusively and have not gotten her period it usually will not experience pregnancy during the 6 months after delivery.
How does breastfeeding as a contraceptive?
Breastfeeding associated with the release of hormones needed to stimulate ovulation, so the more often a mother breastfeeding her baby (ASI), the more reduced to the occurrence of ovulation.
Outside the city out of habit still breastfeeding less and usually they do not give milk for a long time, then usually the mothers who breast feed will be menkombinasikan with other contraceptive methods like condoms, IUDs or progestin pill / minipil (pill for nursing mothers).
And of course the mothers who breastfed their babies will feel more secure in the knowledge that the combination of exclusive breastfeeding with other contraception methods provide protection that is safer than one method of contraception alone.
How Effective Are Lactation / Breastfeeding provides protection for the prevention of pregnancy?
If a mother gives milk to her baby in accordance with all criteria of LAM, it is possible for pregnant mothers within the first 6 months after giving birth just less than 2%. However, for most women, 1 of 50 possibilities for the occurrence of an unexpected pregnancy resikonua greater than those who combine breastfeeding / lactation with other contraceptive methods.
Methods barrier / protection (such as condoms or diaphragm), IUDs, and kontreasepsi with pills for breastfeeding mothers (mini-pills or progestin pill) is very suitable as a contraceptive for the mother who gives milk.
One thing is certain LAM method does not provide any protection against sexually transmitted diseases. So if you have a sexually transmitted disease risk, you should mneggunakan condoms.
Criteria of a mother using LAM Method:
One mother expressed using the method of LAM (Lactational Amenorrhoe Methode) / Method of family planning through BREAST FEEDING exclusively., If it fulfills some criteria below:
- A mother breastfeeding exclusively, which means all the needs of milk only from milk. Mothers breastfed their babies every need both day and night, and give milk every 4 hours during the day and every 6 hours at night. Exclusive breastfeeding (baby do not get extra food.)
- Mother NOT get Menstruation. Once the mother has been getting a period, it indicates that the mother had started the process of ovulation (egg cells mature) back.
- Infants 6 months old yet. Although in some women still do not get periods for several months, and indeed can not be predicted when menstruation will occur.
Because women typically ovulate before they get a period, then there is the risk of mother to become pregnant again before menstruation began again.
And in some cases, pregnancy can still occur even if the mother breast-feeding exclusively, which means that LAM is not 100% effective, but indeed a mother who gave exclusive breast milk will become infertile during the first 6 months after delivery.
Usually the mother who gives milk (lakstasi) will experience a delay to re-gain her periods.
LAM Method - The Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) is one technique that contraception or natural family planning is based on exclusive breast-feeding mother will cause not menstruating.
Research suggests that women who give their babies breast milk exclusively and have not gotten her period it usually will not experience pregnancy during the 6 months after delivery.
How does breastfeeding as a contraceptive?
Breastfeeding associated with the release of hormones needed to stimulate ovulation, so the more often a mother breastfeeding her baby (ASI), the more reduced to the occurrence of ovulation.
Outside the city out of habit still breastfeeding less and usually they do not give milk for a long time, then usually the mothers who breast feed will be menkombinasikan with other contraceptive methods like condoms, IUDs or progestin pill / minipil (pill for nursing mothers).
And of course the mothers who breastfed their babies will feel more secure in the knowledge that the combination of exclusive breastfeeding with other contraception methods provide protection that is safer than one method of contraception alone.
How Effective Are Lactation / Breastfeeding provides protection for the prevention of pregnancy?
If a mother gives milk to her baby in accordance with all criteria of LAM, it is possible for pregnant mothers within the first 6 months after giving birth just less than 2%. However, for most women, 1 of 50 possibilities for the occurrence of an unexpected pregnancy resikonua greater than those who combine breastfeeding / lactation with other contraceptive methods.
Methods barrier / protection (such as condoms or diaphragm), IUDs, and kontreasepsi with pills for breastfeeding mothers (mini-pills or progestin pill) is very suitable as a contraceptive for the mother who gives milk.
One thing is certain LAM method does not provide any protection against sexually transmitted diseases. So if you have a sexually transmitted disease risk, you should mneggunakan condoms.
Criteria of a mother using LAM Method:
One mother expressed using the method of LAM (Lactational Amenorrhoe Methode) / Method of family planning through BREAST FEEDING exclusively., If it fulfills some criteria below:
- A mother breastfeeding exclusively, which means all the needs of milk only from milk. Mothers breastfed their babies every need both day and night, and give milk every 4 hours during the day and every 6 hours at night. Exclusive breastfeeding (baby do not get extra food.)
- Mother NOT get Menstruation. Once the mother has been getting a period, it indicates that the mother had started the process of ovulation (egg cells mature) back.
- Infants 6 months old yet. Although in some women still do not get periods for several months, and indeed can not be predicted when menstruation will occur.
Because women typically ovulate before they get a period, then there is the risk of mother to become pregnant again before menstruation began again.
And in some cases, pregnancy can still occur even if the mother breast-feeding exclusively, which means that LAM is not 100% effective, but indeed a mother who gave exclusive breast milk will become infertile during the first 6 months after delivery.
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