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‘For the same duration of breastfeeding, the more developed the country, the lower the period of temporary sterility following childbirth,’ the study reports. Wavebreak/Istock.com pic via AFP
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BERLIN, July 16 ― Breastfeeding has an effect on mothers fertility, something that in turn appears to be affected by the living conditions of the mother and her newborn, a recent study shows.
The period of infertility following childbirth is lengthened when the mother is breastfeeding. While it lasts just a few weeks for a woman who does not breastfeed, it can last over several months ― even more than a year ― for a woman who breastfeeds her child. The duration of this contraceptive effect from breastfeeding is not the same in all women, and could depend on the mother s living standards, according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Resea