Be careful, you can get pregnant while breastfeeding

    If you let your guard down because you're breastfeeding, you may be in for something you'll regret.

    According to surveys, 5% to 10% of pregnant women become pregnant inexplicably during lactation. born Postpartum，baby The action of sucking the nipple can reflexively inhibit the mother's hypothalamus, thereby inhibiting ovarian ovulation. Taking advantage of this feature of non-ovulation can be used as a contraceptive.

    But this method is also unreliable. Because if the baby sucks the nipple less, the amount of milk secretion decreases, the concentration of milk decreases, or breastfeeding stops, or if the mother is affected by the environment, climate, emotional changes, and sexual life, the inhibitory effect of lactogenic hormone on gonadotropin will weaken, and the ovary will resume its function from the resting state during breastfeeding, discharge mature eggs, and then gradually resume the menstrual cycle.

    Breastfeeding mothers should know: Generally speaking, female Ovulation occurs first and menstruation occurs 2 weeks later.

    Due to the characteristic of "ovulation comes first and menstruation comes later", some women may become pregnant before their menstrual period comes.

    Warning: Use contraception even while breastfeeding.

    Especially when the following unsafe factors exist:

    1. Breastfeeding less than 6 times a day

    2. The milk is thin and the milk volume is insufficient within half a year of lactation.

    3. Breastfeeding period exceeds half a year

    All of the above situations will increase a woman’s pregnancy rate.