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Can I get pregnant

Can I get pregnant I’m 2 months postpartum and I’m only breastfeeding for 5 min on each breast

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Yes you can get pregnant

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My doctor said if you feed every 3 hours or less then technically you should be still covered by the hormones that are released, but if you go over that then that's where it's risky. But I got a depo shot anyway, as baby goes for longer stretches at night

your doctor sounds like a quack. Breastfeeding is absolutely not birth control and whether you feed every 2 hours or every 4, it’s still not a birth control method. You can ovulate before your period comes back too, so I’d be curious as to what your doctor would say about that? Anyways, please nobody rely on breastfeeding to prevent pregnancy. Honestly this reminds me of my history teacher in high school that told a student that you can’t get pregnant standing up in the shower… that student ended up pregnant from shower sex because “you can’t get pregnant standing up”…. 🙃

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Yes I was told u have a higher risk becoming pregnant when ur breast feeding because your more fertile

just read on hormones and their function. You should also use common sense along with any advise you get. And was absolutely not advising this method.

you can site the hormones all you want but women get pregnant all the time doing that. Again, it’s not a birth control method.

all contraceptions are are hormones, apart from condoms. And nothing is 100%

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yo stop comparing breastfeeding to actual birth control. Yes, it’s hormones but nothing your body does naturally is comparable to actual birth control when it comes to preventing a child. Again, your doctor is a quack and I’m seriously convinced he’s got you a little quacky too now since you’ve been going to him so long and trust every single word out of his mouth.

Reminds me of drivers education when the 60 year old teacher said to our class that your checking blind spots is a thing of the past now that these new cars have “fancy mirrors” 🙄 old & “experienced” doesn’t automatically mean they’re right

yeah yeah you're the smartest one alive 😘

I’ve made zero claims on this post. Simply told you the truth.

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I was crying on the phone with the perinatal mental health team today and the lovely lady, bless her, kept assuring me that it gets better. I kept telling her I hope so because people have been saying that since having my LO and it just feels like it keeps getting worse. She assured me it gets better....

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My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.

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