If one or more of these conditions are broken, lactational amenorrhea is no longer a reliable form of birth control.

The production of prolactin in response to suckling is important to maintaining lactational amenorrhea.

The lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) requires breast feeding at least every four to six hours.

The lactational amenorrhea method, involves the use of a woman's natural postpartum infertility which occurs after delivery and may be extended by breastfeeding.

If not combined with chemicals or devices, lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) may be considered natural family planning.

Women who are breastfeeding a child and wish to avoid pregnancy may be able to practice the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM).

Breast-feeding can be used as a method of birth control, called the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM).

The lactational amenorrhea method of birth control works primarily by preventing ovulation, but is also known to cause LPD.

Lactational amenorrhea is the natural postnatal infertility that occurs when a woman is amenorrheic (not menstruating) and fully breastfeeding.

Frequent and exclusive breastfeeding usually delays the return of fertility through lactational amenorrhea, though breastfeeding is an imperfect means of birth control.

There are three main types of NFP: the symptoms-based methods, the calendar-based methods, and the breastfeeding or lactational amenorrhea method.

Some Quiverfull adherents advocate for child spacing through breastfeeding, so return of fertility after childbirth could be delayed by lactational amenorrhea, although this is far from certain.

Dr. Labbok is known for description of Lactational Amenorrhea Method as a method of birth spacing.

This lactational amenorrhea has been used as an imperfect form of natural contraception, with greater than 98% effectiveness during the first six months after birth if specific nursing behaviors are followed.

Hormonal contraceptive pills, patches or rings, and the lactational amenorrhea method, if used strictly, can have first-year (or for LAM, first-6-month) failure rates of less than 1%.

Today, NFP is an umbrella term that includes symptoms-based fertility awareness methods and the lactational amenorrhea method as well as calendar-based methods such as rhythm.

Lactational amenorrhea (breast-feeding): When a woman is breast-feeding the sucking response of the baby on her nipple inhibits the pituitary from releasing FSH and LH.

The popular fertility awareness writer Katie Singer has written about the important role Sheila Kippley and CCL have played in conducting and promoting research on lactational amenorrhea.

If in primitive times, adult women had many pregnancies with long intervals of lactational amenorrhea, lack of menses, between pregnancies, then menses occurred only when pregnancy and breastfeeding were absent.

Other reasons to pacify a baby primarily at the breast include superior oral-facial development, prolonged lactational amenorrhea, avoidance of nipple confusion, and stimulation of an adequate milk supply to ensure higher rates of breastfeeding success."

There is also the possibility of more births as a compensation for increased child mortality, either via a conscious decision by parents to achieve a set family size or the cessation of lactational amenorrhea following the death of an infant.

Compared to earlier centuries, Japanese in the 18th and 19th century married later, nursed their babies for longer, and spaced their children at longer intervals through the resulting lactational amenorrhea as well as through contraception, abortion, and infanticide.

That population increase became checked by practices that continued into the childhoods of many of my New Guinea friends-especially by war, infanticide, use of forest plants for contraception and abortion, and sexual abstinence and natural lactational amenorrhea for several years while a baby was being nursed.