Cara merancang kehamilan secara semulajadi.

 (***Hanya utk ibu yang FULLY BREASTFEEDING sahaja)


Salam ramadhan,

Syukur alhamdulillah, hari ini, dapat juga berpeluang utk share ilmu baru berkaitan breastfeeding ni. Hari ni, aku nak share tentang cara merancang kehamilan (yang aku praktikkan selama ni), tanpa makan sebarang ubat N lain2 tu.

Tapi, ada beberapa syarat yang WAJIB dipatuhi. Antaranya;-

1. Mengepam serta menyusu dengan konsisten. Iaitu, dengan selang masa menyusu sekurang2nya setiap 2 jam, atau paling lewat nak jarakkan pun, tidak melebihi 3 jam setiap hari.
2. Bila anak dah capai usia 6 bulan, biasanya, sudah diberi makan makanan separa pejal. Kebiasannya, selepas makan, bayi akan kurang menyusu pada waktu tertentu (ketika lepas makan tu). Sebabnya dia dah kenyang. WAJIB perah keluar susu yang ada, sehingga kosong kedua-dua breast.(boleh simpan susu ni, buat stok)
3. Kerapkan menyusu pada waktu malam (kalau ada ketikanya, baby kenyang dan tak mahu menyusu, WAJIB bangun sekejap dan perah susu keluar).
4. Jangan sesekali, biar breast bengkak! Bila breast bengkak, akan menyebabkan sejenis protein FIL (feedback inhibator of lactation) memenuhi ruang susu. Fungsi protein ni, akan merehatkan kilang susu dari proses susu lagi. Sebab tu, kalau kita biar breast bengkak, dia akan membengkak sehingga semaksimum yg boleh, kemudian breast kita akan mengeras macam batu. Tapi, tak meletup kan! Sebab, fungsi FIL ni, dah sekat kilang dari buat susu lagi. Kalau kita biasakan selalu, lama-kelamaan susu akan berkurang. Sebab, secara automatik kita akan hantar signal ke otak, bahawa susu tak diperlukan sebanyak itu lagi. So, susu akan semakin berkurang dan makin lama akan mengering.

***Segala syarat2 di atas kalau dipenuhi, INSYAALLAH, mummy takkan mengandung, sebab kita tak beri peluang pada rahim kita untuk menjalani proses ovulasi.
Sebab tu, di dalam al-quran ada menyatakan, najis air kecil bayi lelaki berusia bawah 2 tahun (YANG HANYA MINUM SUSU IBU SAHAJA), tidak najis. Setakat percikkan air saja di tempat tersebut.
Maknanya, pada zaman nabi dahulu, ramai ibu2 yang menyusukan anak mereka secara sepenuhnya, TANPA bendasing lain SELAIN DARI SUSU IBU selama 2 tahun.
Subhannallah, besar nikmat Allah beri. Dahla, anak minum susu ibu sahaja dah jimat banyak,mengeratkan kasih sayang ibu dan bayi,serta meningkatkan perasaan keibuan dan lain2 lagi, kemudian, menjarakkan kehamilan secara semulajadi, tanpa perlu keluarkan duit serta makan itu ini juga. Bestkan! :)...

Aku pernah berbual dengan seorang mummy yang "fully breastfeeding" anak dia, tanpa beri makan apa2 pun anak dia, hampir setahun setengah. Anak dia sihat dan cergas. Yang "amazing"nya, selama itu juga dia tak pernah didatangi period langsung. Yang penting, dia tak makan apa2 pun untuk merancang kehamilan.

Cuba baca artikel yg aku petik dari website:- www.askdrsears.com

"I've heard that breastfeeding can keep me from getting pregnant. Is this true?"
Yes, as long as you nurse according to the rules of natural child spacing. The same hormones that make milk suppress the release of reproductive hormones. While breastfeeding full-time most mothers do not ovulate and do not have menstrual periods. This means that you can't get pregnant, at least for a while. It's as if your body is telling you, "Nourishing one baby is all you can handle at the moment. It's too soon for a sibling."

"How reliable is breastfeeding as a natural contraceptive?"
You have to follow the rules of the game to get the full benefit of breastfeeding's effect on fertility. In the last ten years, lactation researchers have developed the lactational amenorrhea method of family planning, called LAM. Research shows that LAM's effectiveness in preventing pregnancy is better than 98 percent, a figure that compares well with artificial methods of birth control. According to LAM, a mother can rely on breastfeeding for protection from pregnancy if she can answer "no" to the following questions:

• Have your menstral cycles returned?
• Are you supplementing regularly or allowing long periods without breastfeeding, either during the day (more than three hours) or at night (more than six hours)?
• Is your baby more than six months old?

Studies have shown that most mothers who are breastfeeding exclusively remain infertile for more than the six-month period covered by LAM. Ovulation and menstruation return only when the baby starts to nurse less often and prolactin levels fall.

4 TIPS FOR USING BREASTFEEDING TO DELAY OVULATION

1. Practice unrestricted breastfeeding without regard to schedules. Usually six to eight breastfeedings a day will suppress ovulation.
2. Don't train your baby to sleep through the night. (The milk-making hormones that suppress ovulation are highest between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.) Nighttime nursing is important to the suppression of fertility. Sleeping with your baby facilitates unrestricted feeding at night.
3. All of baby's sucking should be at the breast, for comfort as well as food. Avoid the use of supplemental bottles and pacifiers.
4. Delay the introduction of solid foods until age six months or later. Solids should provide additional nutrition, not substitute for breastfeedings.

The key to using breastfeeding to delay the return of fertility is frequency of breastfeedings. Because prolactin clears so rapidly from the blood, frequent feedings are necessary to keep it high enough to suppress ovulation. As baby nurses less frequently, prolactin levels fall, reproductive hormones rise, and fertility returns.

If you follow these rules, you may enjoy a period of lactation amenorrhea (no menstrual periods) that lasts thirteen to sixteen months. In fact, research has shown that women who practice natural mothering according to the above rules will average 14.5 months without a period following childbirth. Remember, this is only an average. A few mothers will experience a return of menstrual periods by six months, others not until two or three years.

When menstrual periods return, the first one is often anovulatory, meaning that it is not preceded by ovulation (the release of an egg), and thus you could not have gotten pregnant before this first period. However, about 5 percent of women do ovulate before having their first period, and the longer you have gone without having periods, the more likely this is to happen. Thus it's possible to become pregnant while breastfeeding, even if you are not menstruating. Once your periods resume, you should assume that it is possible for you to get pregnant, and you should take precautions if you don't want to add another child to your family in the near future. This might be a good time to learn about natural family planning methods, which enable you to determine exactly when you are ovulating and could become pregnant. Or you may decide to use another method of birth control as breastfeeding's effect on your fertility fades. See Couple to Couple League International at http://www.ccli.org/.

Sometimes women who are nursing older babies or toddlers want to get pregnant and find this difficult while they are breastfeeding. The baby's nursing may continue to affect a woman's fertility even after her periods have returned. This can be very frustrating. Sometimes getting the toddler to cut back a bit on breastfeeding, especially at night, can make it possible for mother to conceive.
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Tapi, ada gak mummy yang "fully breastfeeding", mengandung jugak. Sebabnya, tak memenuhi syarat yg ditetapkan. Aku lah tu orangnya.

Biar aku cerita hal yg sebenar dulu tentang pengalaman aku mengandung yang kedua ni, sebelum korang berfikir yang bukan2.

Sebenarnya......aku bukan termengandung! Aku yang nak mengandung. Pada ketika tu, punyalah susah, sebab aku tak period lagi. Aku usaha macam2, supaya dapat mengandung lagi. Sampaikan, aku beli "pregnancy test" tu, dekat 18 kali, asyik negatif je (sebab orang kata, kalau tak period pun, kena jaga2, ada kemungkinan kita mengandung). Tapi, memang NEGATIF. Penat aku.

Sampaikan, aku solat hajat n kerapkali berdoa, supaya Allah izinkan aku mengandung lagi. Dalam masa yang sama, WAFIY dah start makan, N kebetulan aku pun dah malas nak perah kerap2 sangat. Sebab sejak WAFIY dah makan, susu aku selalu berlebih sebotol dari rumah pengasuh. So, aku ada banyak stok. Jadi takdelah beriya sangat nak perah susu macam dulu2 lagi. 

Kalau kat rumah pun, kalau dia dah makan, dia nyusu sikit je, pastu breast rasa penuh je lagi. Aku tak perah pun. Lama gak aku biarkan macam tu, diizinkan Allah aku pun period buat pertama kali.

Pas dah period, macam2 cite pulak, hasil susu kurang sikitla N macam2 lagi (len kali citer, nanti penat pulak nak baca).

Period sekali je, (next month tak period,) N alhamdulillah, aku disahkan mengandung. Bergenang airmata aku bila aku disahkan mengandung oleh doktor. Sebabnya, itulah pertama kali, aku rasa perasaan "menunggu". Masa WAFIY, aku kawin, terus pregnant. (Tak sempat period.) Jadi tak sempat rasa "menunggu" tu.

So, inilah kenyataannya, aku yang nak mengandung. Dan kebetulan, aku seolah2 membenarkan diri aku untuk mengandung lagi, dengan mengurangkan masa mengepam tu. Maka, terjadilah proses ovulasi di dalam rahim aku.

Cuma bila mengandung, stok susu tak banyak, tambah lak ngan kesan hormon mengandung, nipple aku sakit. So, aku tak ngepam, cuma direct feeding saja. (part ni yang aku sedih, sebab aku terpaksa campur susu WAFIY ketika dia dengan pengasuh, sebab bekalan tak cukup, dah pernah citer tentang ni, dalam entri yg lama. Sebab tu, aku beriya sangat suh mummy kumpul stok banyak2 selagi boleh, supaya, bila terjadi hal yg sama, anak kita masih menyusu "susu ibu" lagi, tanpa perlu campur susu lain.)

So, kepada mummy2 yang tak nak makan apa2 sebagai perancang kehamilan. Habis je nifas, jaga betul2 penyusuan kita, supaya kita tak sempat pun nak period, sehingga 2 tahun. Lepas 2 tahun, bolehla kalau nak ngandung lagi.

Sekian dulu untuk kali ini,
Happy breastfeeding !... ;)

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