incidence and factors of lactational amenorrhea influencing it in EL -M anakh district in Port – Said

Abstract

The postpartum period is characterized hormonally by elevated levels of prolactin and low levels of gonadotropins and sex steroids. Lactational amenorrhea is the normal absence of menstruation after childbirth and during the process of breast-feeding of the baby.

Lactational amenorrhea still plays an important role in child spacing in developing countries. However, its use as a family planning was untested until 1988, when an international group of researchers met in Bellagio. They reached a consensus statement that reads: "the maximum birth spacing effect of breast-feeding is achieved when mothers fully or nearly fully breast-feed and remain amenorrheic. When these two conditions are present, breast-feeding provides more than 98% of protection in the first six months."

The a1m of the present study was to estimate the incidence of lactational amenorrhea among mothers in EI-Manakh district, Port-Said City, to find out the factors influencing the incidence of lactational amenorrhea.