How to conceive while breastfeeding
Your beautiful baby that is in your arms and continuing to breastfeed has a biological drive to not only feed around the clock (for food, comfort and regulation), but to maintain their position as the only baby for the time being.
By feeding at the breast frequently and for decent durations, this signals to your body that there is a baby to continue to produce milk for and it dampens down hormones driven for conceiving again.
So if you’re ready to expand your family, and your menstrual cycle has not returned it may be worth reevaluating where your current baby’s breastfeeding needs are at, and deciding whether you can implement changes to try to encourage your cycle to return or if you can wait a little bit longer until your baby is older and will happily breastfeed slightly less at the breast.
I always like to highlight here that you ovulate before menstruate, so some women will conceive when that first egg is released prior to their period ever returning – this is why breastfeeding alone is not a guaranteed form of contraception!
- conceiving
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- fertility
- expressing
- tandem feeding
- biting
- dummies
- sleep
- teething
- qiara
- toddler
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- inflammation
- cue based care
- introducing bottles
- blocked ducts
- mastitis
- Dad
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- newborn
- night weaning
- microbiome
- Power Pumping
- milk supply
- breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding education
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