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Jul. 28th, 2008 04:45 pmFrom Wikipedia's article on the "Lactational amenorrhea method" of birth control (I've been wiki!jumping again, LOL).
"The lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) is a method of avoiding pregnancies which is based on the natural postpartum infertility that occurs when a woman is amenorrheic and fully breastfeeding."
Easy enough. But then we scroll down to the sub-header of "ecological breastfeeding", which is basically a subset philosophy where the only difference is a set of stricter rules for the same thing. Rules include:
The infant must be breastfed often. The standards for LAM are a bare minimum (q 4 hours during the day, q 6 hours overnight); more frequency is better. Scheduling of feedings should be avoided. Mothers must sleep with their infants – in the same room, if not in the same bed. Mothers must not be separated from their infants for more than three hours a day. Mothers must take daily naps with their infants.
The further reading source at the bottom is a book titled Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing: How Ecological Breastfeeding Spaces Babies.
OH, I KNOW, I KNOW! It spaces babies because you're so busy feeding and napping with and sleeping in the same bed with and not being separated for more than 3 hours ever and waking up every 4 hours to suckle your baby that you're too busy/tired to have sex! Question answered. I should have written that book.
"The lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) is a method of avoiding pregnancies which is based on the natural postpartum infertility that occurs when a woman is amenorrheic and fully breastfeeding."
Easy enough. But then we scroll down to the sub-header of "ecological breastfeeding", which is basically a subset philosophy where the only difference is a set of stricter rules for the same thing. Rules include:
The further reading source at the bottom is a book titled Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing: How Ecological Breastfeeding Spaces Babies.
OH, I KNOW, I KNOW! It spaces babies because you're so busy feeding and napping with and sleeping in the same bed with and not being separated for more than 3 hours ever and waking up every 4 hours to suckle your baby that you're too busy/tired to have sex! Question answered. I should have written that book.
