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From: holforty@ihuxe.UUCP (Nancy L. Holforty)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Nursing as a contraceptive
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 15:34:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 15:34:26 1984
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I hate to tell you this but nursing is not a very good means of
contraception.  I had managed to get pregnant while nursing and
using birth control only 6 months after delivery of my first child.
Admittedly, the form of birth control that I was using was not considered
a very effective form but this was because my doctor recommended against
most of the other types (either because of their risk factor to the mother
or because they might cause a problem with nursing).  By the way, I
used straight demand feeding and my son still required a night feeding
until he was seven or eight months old.

			Nancy L. Holforty
			AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville