Postpartum Contraception

Introduction

Postpartum contraceptive methods are those used by breast feeding women before twenty six days after they have given birth . Basing on the NICE guidelines , the advice on how to use these methods should be explained to the patients before their second postpartum week . The breast feeding women are allowed to use the lactational amenorrhoea method but they are not recommended to use the COCP (combined oral contraceptive pills method by the World Health Organization before the first 42 days postpartum because it 's illegal (outside the license (WHO , 2006 . Below

are some of the postpartum contraceptive methods

The contraceptive methods

The combined contraceptive pills (to the breast feeding women

This contraceptive method to breast women brings about some hormonal out comes on the quantity of milk and its quality too . If these pills are taken before 24 weeks postpartum , they affect the baby 's growth . In a previous review of randomized controlled trials held to clarify this case , the review reassured women that hormonal contraceptive method has no strong effects on the baby 's growth . On the other hand , the World Health Organization recommended that , breast feeding mothers before 24 weeks of postpartum should not use the combined contraceptive pills because its use is outside the license (WHO , 2006

Sterilization

Basing on the guideline of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists , it shows that women should be alert about the consequences and the increasing rates at which sterilization fails before the postpartum period (Johnson , Edelman and Jensen , 2003

Lactational...