I'm Breastfeeding. Do I Need Birth Control?
I'm breastfeeding; do I need birth control? This is an important question and one that needs a truthful answer.
Breastfeeding is an amazing means of birth control. In fact, it is 99% effective under certain conditions. I heard Dr. Miriam Labbok speak on this several years ago. (As a side note, she told us that the study she conducted actually showed a 100% birth control.)Then she ran some quick and dirty numbers and found that:
If we were to remove breastfeeding from the world completely, in one year there would be another country (population wise) the size of Canada. Wow!
When do you know if breastfeeding is an effective means of birth control? Here are the three questions to ask yourself:
- Is your baby less than six months old?
- Are you amenorrheic (your menstrual cycle has not returned)?
- Are you fully or nearly fully breastfeeding?
If you can answer yes to all three questions, your risk of pregnancy is less than two percent. Once one of these changes, you will need another form of family-planning.
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