Does breastfeeding space babies? You bet it does. Here is what mothers are saying!
“I am a great fan of your work on ecological breastfeeding. My daughter is 13 months old. Although my period returned at 7 months, my fertility has not yet returned.”
“This is the only method of child spacing that appeals to my husband and me in every possible way. Myself, I look for simpler answers—ones that women in non-technological societies might discover—and in breastfeeding I found it.”
“I am currently nursing my 18 month old without a return of my periods.”
“I thank you for the positive effect you’ve had on my mothering skills. I nursed my first baby for 4 months and quit because of the inconvenience. I nursed my second baby for 22 months because it was so very convenient.”
“My son nurses on and off during the nights. He is 22 months old and I have not had a period yet.”
“Breastfeeding has a very definite effect on child spacing. With my bottlefed children I conceived again at 8 months after childbirth despite other contraceptives. It has been 15 months since the last baby was born. No period yet.”
“My children are spaced three years apart due to ecological breastfeeding.”
And a Jewish mother says: “I wanted to proudly share my news that I just had my longest amenorrhea period ever- 18 1/2 months!!
I’ve been having increasingly longer periods of time:
6 1/2 months after my first
9 1/2 months after my second
14 1/2 months after my third and fourth
18 1/2 months after my fifth (my most recent baby)
I am so thrilled with G-d’s amazing natural form of child spacing that benefits everyone in the most wonderful of ways.”
I encourage everyone to do what they can to promote this natural way of spacing babies.
Sheila Kippley
Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood
The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding