One of the Dads on my Stay-at-home-Dads list is a big believer in the
Family bed. So the question did come up of how did you get the second
and third child if you were all in the same bed? Answer was that the
family room had a large couch, and a lock on the door.
Stephen - who remembers fun before having kids.
Wendy wrote:
On the non-physical side, having a small child forever attatched to you makes
it difficult to get the chance to get pregnant.
Wendy
--- On Wed 01/11, Robin Netherton < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Robin Netherton [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:38:20 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: [h-cost] OT: Nursing and menses
<br>On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Marc Carlson wrote:<br><br>> I could have sworn that back in anthropology 101 they taught us that<br>> extended breastfeeding was used to make a woman less likely to get<br>> pregnant, not that it stopped menstruation.<br><br>It does both.<br><br>Breastfeeding temporarily stops ovulation, which in turn stops<br>menstruation -- menstrual periods are a direct result of ovulation. You<br>don't have periods without ovulating.<br><br>(It is possible to bleed without ovulation; this is considered "abnormal<br>uterine bleeding" and not menstruation, and sometimes looks similar but<br>typically does not follow the regular pattern of monthly periods.)<br><br>(The monthly bleeds that occur during cyclical hormone therapy or the use<br>of oral contraception look like periods, but they're not. They're enforced<br>bleeds created by the adjustment of hormone dosage. They don't enter into <br>this discussion, in any case.)<br><br>Breastfeeding doesn't always stop
pregnancy, since when you start<br>ovulating and having periods again, you ovulate first (before you've had<br>your first period return). So you can get pregnant before your periods<br>come back, and I know people who have done so (oops). It's generally<br>advised not to rely on the lack of periods as absolute birth control; you<br>can be assured of a delay, often a long one, but eventually you might hit<br>it just as your ovaries get back in action.<br><br>--Robin<br>medical editor<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>h-costume mailing list<br>h-costume@mail.indra.com<br>http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume<br>
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