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Resumption of menstruation among urban post-partum women in Bangladesh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Ingrid Swenson
Ingrid Swenson
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins Fertility Research Program, Dacca, Bangladesh.
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Summary

Half the women in this study had resumed menses by the 6th month post-partum. Concurrent with these findings, less than 50% were still breast-feeding at the 6th month post-partum. The majority of these breast-feeding women were partially breast-feeding. By the 6th post-partum month more than 90% of the women had resumed intercourse and slightly less than half were using contraceptives. Nevertheless, the cross-sectional data indicate that only 25% of the women were using contraceptives at 12 months post-partum. These results show a much shorter period of lactational amenorrhoea than has been reported for a rural area of Bangladesh.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1979 , pp. 153 - 158
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Copyright © 1979, Cambridge University Press

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