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[Lactational amenorrhea as a method of family planning]
T Canto-de Cetina1, L Polanco-Reyes
1Departamento de Biología de la Reproducción, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México.
The contraceptive effects of breast-feeding still play an important role in child spacing in developing countries; however, its use as a method of family planning was untested until 1988, when an international group of researchers met in Bellagio and reached a consensus statement that reads "The maximum birth spacing effect of breast-feeding is achieved when mothers fully or nearly fully breast-feed and remain amenorrheic (and no menstrual bleeding has occurred before the 56th postpartum day). When these two conditions are present, breast-feeding provides more than 98% of protection in the first six months. That became the basis for a method of family planning called the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM). Which is a new introductory family planning method that simultaneously promotes child spacing and breast-feeding, with its optimal nutrition and disease preventive benefits for the infant. This method is based on the natural infertility caused by the hormonal suppression of ovulation.
The contraceptive effects of breast-feeding still play an important role in child spacing in developing countries; however, its use as a method of family planning was untested until 1988, when an international group of researchers met in Bellagio and reached a consensus statement that reads "The maximum birth spacing effect of breast-feeding is achieved when mothers fully or nearly fully breast-feed and remain amenorrheic (and no menstrual bleeding has occurred before the 56th postpartum day). When these two conditions are present, breast-feeding provides more than 98% of protection in the first six months. That became the basis for a method of family planning called the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM). Which is a new introductory family planning method that simultaneously promotes child spacing and breast-feeding, with its optimal nutrition and disease preventive benefits for the infant. This method is based on the natural infertility caused by the hormonal suppression of ovulation.