Using complete breastfeeding and lactational amenorrhoea as birth spacing methods

Contraception

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 253-257

  Tommaselli, Giovanni A ^a   Guida, Maurizio ^a   Palomba, Stefano ^a   Barbato, Michele ^b   Nappi, Carmine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ambrosiano Ctr Nat Fam Plan M   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Lactational amenorrhoea; Natural family planning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS;

BIRTH SPACING; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE; FAMILY PLANNING; FAMILY PLANNING, BEHAVIORAL METHODS; FERTILITY; HEALTH; INFANT NUTRITION; ITALY; LACTATION, PROLONGED; MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES; NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING; NUTRITION; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POSTPARTUM AMENORRHEA; PUERPERIUM; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; USE-EFFECTIVENESS;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREAST FEEDING; CERVIX MUCUS; COITUS; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; ITALY; LACTATION; OVULATION; SALIVA; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0033933619     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(00)00101-3     Document Type: Article

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