In a message dated 3/17/2007 11:47:24 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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Date:    Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:40:58 -0400
From:   Kirsten Berggren <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: BF  Infertility

My impression was that there wasn't a way to reliably  extend LAM  
beyond 6 months - which is not to say that it doesn't  often extend  
well beyond 6 months on its own, but that the  reliability is not  
there. (I'll admit that I haven't read the  research) But I think that  
even for a mom who cosleeps and nurses  exclusively and delays  
introduction of solids, she may see a return  to fertility at 6 months.  
Just as the mother who is down to nursing  only a few times a day and  
is feeding lots of solids may not see a  return to fertility until she  
fully weans - or even well after  that.
But - I would be interested in learning more.

Kirsten  Berggren, PhD, CLC





Hi, Kirsten
 
Thanks for replying.  Here is the link to the breastfeeding research  done by 
John and Sheila Kippley (author of Breastfeeding and Natural Child  Spacing):
 
_http://www.nfpandmore.org/spacingbabies.shtml_ 
(http://www.nfpandmore.org/spacingbabies.shtml) 
 
I believe it is their research that is the basis for the oft-quoted  
statistic (by LLLI anyway) that breastfeeding amenorrhea may extend to 14 months  on 
average. 
 
I am wondering if anyone else has attempted to put together a  standard  that 
is easy to teach to moms such as Sheila's Seven Standards of  Ecological 
Breastfeeding to help sustain or prolong breastfeeding's child  spacing effect.  I 
don't believe anyone has, but I am just checking. 
 
Thanks again!

Pam Pilch, JD, LCCE



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