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topics under category "Contraception
(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
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
planning. Birth control is a controversial political and ethical
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| The "new" contraceptive method of breastfeeding. |
| NETWORK. 1992 Oct;13(2):4-9. |
| The consensus statement of lactation specialists at a meeting in Bellagio, Italy, states that breast feeding can be |
| an effective contraception until menstruation resumes, a mother supplements breast milk with considerable amounts |
| of other foods, or the infant is 6 months old. If any of these 3 conditions occur, mothers should use another |
| contraceptive. If they do not occur, this lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) is 98% effective. New research shows |
| that amenorrhea along may indicate the need to use contraception. For example, a multicountry study demonstrates |
| that amenorrhea alone prevents pregnancy is 94% of mothers 1 year postpartum (97% at 6 months postpartum). |
| Disregarding the supplementation rule should only be advocated in countries where women usually breast feed for a |
| long period and experience resumption of menstruation after 1 year or more. Some research shows that at least 15 |
| breast feeds per day, with each breast feed lasting at least 10 minutes, are required to maintain lactational |
| amenorrhea after the first six months. Medical personnel and commercial advertising of infant formulas promote early |
| supplementation, thereby making it difficult to drop the food supplementation rule. Further, many hospitals tend to |
| encourage breast feeding for child health reasons rather than family planning reasons. Moreover, family planning |
| programs emphasize contraceptives. Thus, it may be hard to encourage hospital and family planning staff to promote |
| LAM. In some countries, e.g., Honduras, mothers trained in LAM lead breast feeding support groups to promote LAM |
| among other mothers. Regardless of the ongoing debate about the LAM criteria, information about LAM should be |
| available to all breast feeding mothers. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 1586-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "The "new" contraceptive method of breastfeeding.", is(are) |
| Townsend S. The source of this article is "NETWORK. 1992 Oct;13(2):4-9.". This article was published in 1992 in |
| English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 1586-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: |
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