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Prolonged lactation and family spacing in Rwanda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

M. Bonte  and
H. van Balen
M. Bonte
Affiliation:
Physiology of Human Reproduction Research Unit, University of Louvain, Belgium, and Rwandese Government Hospital, Butare, Rwanda
H. van Balen
Affiliation:
Physiology of Human Reproduction Research Unit, University of Louvain, Belgium, and Rwandese Government Hospital, Butare, Rwanda
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Summary

Data were collected from 368 Rwanda women, 50 non-lactating and 318 lactating, to determine the effect of lactation on conception rate and the return of menstruation. During lactation the majority of conceptions were found to be delayed by some 15 months, but the family spacing effect was maximal during the first 9 months. By 27 months after delivery the contraceptive effect of lactation can be assumed to have largely disappeared.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1969 , pp. 97 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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