Does exclusively breasfeeding work as a birth control method?

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Any experiences?

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You have to have all of these happening for it to be as effective as it can be as a birth control:
- baby under 6 months old
- exclusive breastfeeding on cue (not even going more than 4 hours at a time without feeding and nothing else besides breastmilk for baby)
- havent had a pp period yet

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I think it would simply because you don’t have time to have sex. 😂😂😂😂
Note: I’m being totally sarcastic. It is not in any way a dependable form of birth control.

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It’s unlikely now with our babies being under 6 months but if you ever go more than 2-3 hours between a feed even during the night then your chances are higher that you could get pregnant. It’s unlikely but not a reliable birth control method. When my son was 13 months I was still breastfeeding but he obviously had solid foods by that point. I really only fed him about every 4 hours during the day. I hadn’t had a period yet but my husband and I decided to stop preventing and see what happened. I thought it was going to take months since I hadn’t had a period and didn’t think I was ovulating. I got pregnant within the first 2 weeks and never had a period. We stopped preventing on October 1 and I got a positive test on October 25. So be careful! I recommend getting on the mini pill while breastfeeding for at least the first year postpartum. Then when you are ready to try just stop taking the pill and see what happens.

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My friend thought this and was preggy 3 months PP 🥴

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It does for most until about 6 months as long as you never go over 4 hours between feeds. It's about as effective as most other birth controls if you feed in a very specific way, but that still means it isn't ever 100%. My daughter sleeps too much for me to rely on it as birth control, but my son was always on boob and never slept more than a couple hours at night so I could rely on it with him.

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NO.... I EBF and conceived my son when my daughter was 6 months old, and continued to breast feed her till she was 1yr. They are 15 months apart 🥰. I was getting regular cycles so I knew it was possible!

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Nope I found I was pregnant with my 2nd when my .1st was 6 months old . And I ebf . They are now 13 and 12 lol . So doesn’t trust it . I got the iud after my 2nd was born and got the iud again . There only certain ones one can have when breastfeeding

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I voted "yes" but it's really more of a "kind of".
Breastfeeding if it's nursing, on demand, and with plenty of nighttime nursing sessions, keeps your hormones in a very specific cocktail which prevents ovulation.
BUT.
It's a very delicate balance and for some women it doesn't work even if everything is done perfectly. If your body isn't feeling like you're nursing a baby frequently and long enough to keep up the hormonal "birth control cocktail" and it slips out of balance, you can ovulate without much warning...
So while it most certainly makes it difficult to conceive the next little baby sibling, it's not an actual, effective birth control method. Maybe I should have voted "no"...

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Nope. My period returned 4 months PP while EBF with my first son.

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My cousin ebf her first and used it as birth control. She got pregnant and didn’t realize for 20 weeks. She had no symptoms and thought she was just gaining weight due to stress. Thankfully the baby is perfectly fine. 
Use another birth control method.

Does exclusively breasfeeding work as a birth control method?

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