In article IrDib.756365$Ho3.193500@sccrnsc03, Julia Altshuler
wrote:

Dan Abel wrote:
In general, lactating human females do not ovulate.
They *cannot* reliably get pregnant while breastfeeding.


Women
*do* get pregnant when they are menstruating, and they *do* get pregnant
when they are lactating. Neither the rhythm method nor lactation are
reliable methods of birth control.



The above two comments contradict one another.


No, but I also was too lazy to do the research. It's all in the
percentages. If you (the generic you) are an unwed mother with mistake
number one at the breast, you don't want to rely on lactation as your only
method of birth control, or you might possibly end up with mistake number
two. On the other hand, if you are planning to have another baby pretty
soon anyway, and you are willing to live with the slight risk of
pregnancy, you might wish to rely on lactation as a method of birth
control. You aren't supposed to take drugs while nursing, and oral
contraceptives are one of those drugs.



Still, I'll concede the
argument. I'm no health care professional and was only trying to
paraphrase information I'd read somewhere. I'm not up to doing the
research and citing my sources so I'll leave it up to the readers (both
in the West and in the third world) to decide for themselves.


I've done the research, it's called personal experience. Men track their
wive's monthly cycles, and when they don't have any during lactation, it's
pretty obvious.


ObFood: Baby #2 was pretty cranky. The doctor told my wife to stop
drinking milk. My wife stopped drinking milk, and the crankiness went
away! There was something in cow's milk that went into her milk, and
bothered the baby. Once she stopped drinking cow's milk, the baby didn't
get whatever was bothering him.

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Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
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