Relationship Between Breastfeeding and Postpartum Amenorrhea among Indian Women: An Epidemiological Appraisal
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There has been renewed interest about what the optimal duration of postpartum amenorrhea (PPA) so that women should know in advance to use contraceptives and prevent unwanted births. The main objective of the present study (using National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-3 data) is to ascertain the duration of breast-feeding which will yield optimal contraceptive effect, that is, after how many months of breast-feeding; its effect on PPA has appeared/disappeared in the Indian setting. After adjusting the important confounding factors, no significant effect of breast-feeding was found up to the 10 month in extending the return of th ovulation after delivery. Further, we have tried to determine after how many months of breast-feeding the role in extending PPA has disappeared. After retaining the important covariates at their average level and then changing the duration of breast-feeding from 6-10 months to 11-14 months, the gain in the duration of amenorrhea was around 1.3 months. Again, by changing the duration of breast-feeding from 11-14 months to more than 15 months, the gain in extending the duration was significant and was around 1.6 months.
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