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Breast-feeding and post-partum amenorrhoea in Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Robert E. Jones
Robert E. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, University Center at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York
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Summary

The association between breast-feeding patterns and resumption of menses post-partum was examined in a prospective study in Indonesia. In order to examine these relationships directly in a longitudinal study, it was first necessary to distinguish among women who experienced infant mortality before menses resumed, women who weaned before menses resumed, and women who had return to menses while breast-feeding.

Information on suckling patterns and menstrual status was collected by recall for 444 women at monthly visits for 2 years. Three main breast-feeding variables, minutes per episode, number of episodes per day, number of episodes per night, and other breast-feeding variables were derived for each woman, to give the average nursing pattern up to menses or the end of the study, whichever came first. While high levels of nursing for each of these three main variables were found to be significantly related to delay in return of menses post-partum, the interactions between more minutes per episode, and more frequent day- and night-time feeds, were found to be the most important factors in the delay in onset of post-partum menstruation in those women whose menses resumed while still nursing or who remained amenorrhoeic and nursing at the end of the study.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 83 - 100
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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