‘After all, there is a delay of two to four weeks after a term pregnancy and the first expected menstrual period’ - this seems inaccurate, why no mention of lactational amenorrhea? This is only possible if you do not breastfeed at all. My period didn’t return for 15 months post partum with my first and my second child is 13 months old and still no period. From what I’ve heard from other breastfeeding mums I am not an isolated case. I get that you can’t assume women will or can breastfeed but you also don’t need to go to the opposite extreme of assuming that they won’t.
The point here was to show what happens with pregnancy from a hormonal standpoint, meaning there is a delay built in to the withdrawal of hormones. This has nothing to do with breastfeeding, it’s using the withdrawal of placental hormones as an example
‘After all, there is a delay of two to four weeks after a term pregnancy and the first expected menstrual period’ - this seems inaccurate, why no mention of lactational amenorrhea? This is only possible if you do not breastfeed at all. My period didn’t return for 15 months post partum with my first and my second child is 13 months old and still no period. From what I’ve heard from other breastfeeding mums I am not an isolated case. I get that you can’t assume women will or can breastfeed but you also don’t need to go to the opposite extreme of assuming that they won’t.
The point here was to show what happens with pregnancy from a hormonal standpoint, meaning there is a delay built in to the withdrawal of hormones. This has nothing to do with breastfeeding, it’s using the withdrawal of placental hormones as an example