Breast Feeding

When a woman is breast-feeding exclusively (not adding formula or baby food to the baby's diet, only feeding the baby breast milk) with feedings no more than 4 hours apart AND her baby is less than 6 months old, AND her periods have not returned after giving birth, breastfeeding is 98-99% effective for birth control.

If a woman is currently breastfeeding and her baby is older than 6 months, she may want to seek a birth control method that does not contain hormones that can be passed to her baby through breast milk.

accessible over-the-counter nationwide so that one day soon you could purchase it in advance or when you need it at a variety of stores.

Learn more about:

• using a speculum to perform self-exam to see your cervix (inside the vagina, the opening to the uterus) through which menstrual blood, babies, and sperm pass
• women's natural menstrual cycle
• using fertility awareness to plan or prevent pregnancy naturally

• Cedar River Clinics in Washington State, USA
• Safer Sex Info
• Reproductive Tract Infections, STDs and Beyond
• Coalition for Positive Sexuality
• Our Bodies, Ourselves, for the New Century. Boston Women's Health Collective, 1998, 2005.

March 3, 2008

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