From:    Michelle DePesa <[log in to unmask]>

# a quote from Biancuzzo's Breastfeeding the Newborn:
... bone loss during lactation is regained after weaning. Furthermore,
bones recover to pre-lactation levels even with extended lactation and
subsequent pregnancies. #

This is what has been bothering me. Is WEANING required for bone
density recovery, or is the return of the MENSES enough to start the
recovery?

How about a woman whose menses return at 3 mo pp, and who continues
breastfeeding until 8 mo pp. When does her bone density recovery
start?

More importantly -
How about a woman whose menses return let's say at 18 months pp, and
who keeps on breastfeeding until the child is 4 years old. Does her
bone density recovery begin at 18 months or at 4 years? And how about
a woman who gets her period once or twice (at 18 mo pp), before
getting pregnant again. She continues breastfeeding through pregnancy,
and when the younger one is 3 years old, she gets pregnant again, and
breastfeeds until 4 yrs - bfing for more than 10 yrs altogether. Her
bone density level then returns to the level it was 10 years earlier,
right?

Sanna-Mari, mom to Rasmus 29 mo
a lay bf support person
Finland, Scandinavia

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