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captain_solo · 02-23-2012, 07:04 AM

(02-22-2012 09:13 PM)WifeofBill Wrote: PD, not defending the Duggars, but nursing doesn't always stop ovulation. I've exclusively nursed all three of my kids and started ovulating about 12 weeks after delivery with all 3. My kids have co-slept, no bottles, etc., yet if I didn't use birth control methods I would have kids every 10 months.

It might be true for some, but generally speaking its a myth. Everyone I have seen practice that as their "birth control" could be described by one word "pregnant"

Unless of course your family bed situation ends up resulting in abstinence, cause that method works every time.

**Tiarali** · (This post was last modified: 02-23-2012 07:10 AM by Tiarali.)

While breastfeeding on demand, my ovulation was always delayed by almost a year. And my kids had dummies and didn't always share our bed.

My last two kids are close together in age because my second youngest was born with cleft palate and couldn't be breastfed. I hadn't expected the effect it would have on my ovulation, which came back much quicker.

C_Fresh · 02-23-2012, 07:29 AM

(02-22-2012 07:45 PM)P D Wrote: What is really wrong is when a family practices faith in God with regard to childbearing (which is good, btw) but then fails to practice breastfeeding on demand and the family bed so that ovulation is suppressed while nursing (15 months on average). If they would do this, they would have children spaced every two years instead of every ten months.

God planned for ovulation to stop during nursing, but they don't want to practice that aspect of faith in God. So they overwork the physical health and well-being of the mother and pop out a baby every 10 months and think they are practicing God's will when in reality they are flaunting God's will.

The mom needs to hold the baby, breastfeed the baby, practice the family bed, and avoid the use of pacifiers and other food so that biology can do what God intended - space her children apart every two years.

I used to record this show for my fundy sisterrs back when I had cable. She's been shown nursing several times though I don't recall the age of the child. Like others have said, nursing doesn't necessarily preclude ovulation so YMMV.

lucrezaborgia · 02-23-2012, 08:16 PM

(02-23-2012 07:04 AM)captain_solo Wrote: Unless of course your family bed situation ends up resulting in abstinence, cause that method works every time.

This is probably the main reason. The whole lack of ovulation thing really is a crapshoot. Most people I knew who breastfed started their cycles up again within a few months of giving birth.

Recovering · 02-23-2012, 09:39 PM

The other downside to counting on nursing to stop ovulation is that you can get pregnant before you're aware you're ovulating again. This happened to a friend of mine, who now has babies about a year apart.

**Tiarali** · 02-23-2012, 09:48 PM

Yeah, because you ovulate two weeks before your period, not two weeks after.

**Mommy2Kids** · 02-23-2012, 11:12 PM

There was a family that came to our church; they have several children. She tried to keep her husband away by nursing her children until she was completely dried up and the baby was starving.

I think sleeping with a baseball bat would have been a better option.

JoeR · 02-24-2012, 08:35 AM

Has anyone heard of this interesting invention for this problem? It's called a condom.

captain_solo · 02-24-2012, 09:23 AM

(02-24-2012 08:35 AM)JoeR Wrote: Has anyone heard of this interesting invention for this problem? It's called a condom.

contraception is evil, abstinence is the only right way...ok, to get there we do have to ignore the fact that contraception is never condemned in the Bible and abstinence in marriage is only acceptable for a short time in order to fast and pray and for no other reason, but hey, its not about the Bible, its about power

C_Fresh · 02-24-2012, 09:52 AM

(02-24-2012 08:35 AM)JoeR Wrote: Has anyone heard of this interesting invention for this problem? It's called a condom.

I don't think they believe that is allowed. Some of their backstory is that they previously used birth control (the pill I think) which they believe was causal to a miscarriage she had (I think after their first child). This ended up leading them into practicing no contraception and 'trusting God' for how many kids they would have.