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Breast‐Feeding and Fertility in Macau
Author(s) -
Silva Pinho,
Ribeiro Isabel,
Barbosa Maciel,
Vieira Maria Helena
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
pediatrics international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.49
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1442-200X
pISSN - 1328-8067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-200x.1989.tb01324.x
Subject(s) - medicine , fertility , duration (music) , amenorrhea , breast feeding , demography , gynecology , obstetrics , pediatrics , environmental health , pregnancy , population , art , literature , sociology , biology , genetics
That fact that only a small percentage of women in Macau breast‐feed induced the need to investigate this attitude. In collaboration with the Maternal & Child Health Division of the W.H.O., Geneva, it was decided that a methodology which had already been applied in other places should be used to investigate the relation between breast‐feeding and fertility. In this way, information was obtained about the situation, within a given period of time which permitted a description of the duration of amenorrhea due to breast‐feeding, as well as the patterns of frequency and duration of breast‐feeding.