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Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
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| Is lactation nature's contraceptive? Data from Samoa. |
| SOCIAL BIOLOGY. 1992 Spring-Summer;39(1-2):55-64. |
| An anthropologist analyzed 1986-87 data on lactating women from a rural village in western American Samoa to |
| examine the link between lactation and ovulation suppression among non-Western, healthy, and robust populations. |
| Most mothers practiced on demand exclusive breast feeding 24 hours/day for 4-5 months. Yet 75-80% resumed |
| menses before the infant reached 3 months. A maternity nurse claimed that resumption of menses occurred in most |
| mothers after 1 month and some women even deliver 2 infants in 1 year. The shortest postpartum amenorrheic |
| period was 3 weeks and the longest was 14 months. Mean family size stood at 7.8. Birth intervals ranged from 1 to 3 |
| years. These results indicated that the breast-feeding practices of these women were intensive enough to produce |
| enough prolactin to suppress ovulation and suppress menstruation, but they did not do so. Apparently lactation was |
| an ineffective contraceptive among these women. It is pointed out that considerable research shows lactation to be |
| effective in malnourished women or those with low fat stores. yet these women ate the traditional high fat and |
| nutritious diet. She stressed the need to reconsider the belief that lactation is a universally effective fertility control |
| mechanism. She also emphasized the necessity to reeducate family planning workers that breast feeding does not |
| necessarily suppress ovulation, especially in healthy and robust populations. These results have important |
| implications for population growth and fertility control in modern as well as early population. (PubHealth.info |
| Document ID: CONT3T 1529-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Is lactation nature's contraceptive? Data from Samoa.", |
| is(are) Fitzgerald MH. The source of this article is "SOCIAL BIOLOGY. 1992 Spring-Summer;39(1-2):55-64.". This |
| article was published in 1992 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 1529-06. All rights |
| reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 11529 |
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