With the available research and the experiences of many mothers, it is astounding that most Church and NFP teacher ignore ecological breastfeeding to space babies. Some blogging moms have been so enthusiastic about discovering eco-breastfeeding that they have written their own series of blogs on the Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding—one Catholic mom in the USA, another in Ireland, and a Lutheran mom also in the USA.
We ask you to pray that someone will make this message known. Maybe a well-known Catholic or celebrity! I often pray that Our Blessed Mother will find a way. Here is the experience of a mother who used breastfeeding alone to space her babies and found this natural way more helpful than using systematic NFP:
“I just wanted to say thank you for your website and especially Sheila’s book, The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding. I got the book through La Leche League when my eldest child was about a year old and I still hadn’t had a period. My husband and I are Catholic, and so we don’t want to use anything other than NFP. My experience has been that breastfeeding has been the most effective and least stressful method of spacing our children, much more so than any of the more systematic NFP methods we have tried to learn. So thank you for writing your book, since it really helped reassure me that I (and my body) were acting in a normal and natural way. It has been 8 years since I read your book, and we now have 4 kids. The smallest age gap between any of them is 2 years exactly, and during all this time, we have mostly relied on breastfeeding alone to plan our family, since I have great difficulty reading and interpreting my fertility charts even after instruction in 2 different NFP methods” (August 2016).
Sheila Kippley
The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding