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Does breastfeeding affect ur menstrual cycle?
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Yes, sometime: Sometime breastfeeding will suppress mensuration.
Answered 3/30/2014
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Yes: Some women who breast feed will have no menses, some will have prolonged cycles, other will have no effect on their cycles.
Answered 11/2/2015
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Yes: It can cause you not to have a period or can make them irregular. It does not protect you from getting pregnant so use condoms for birth control.
Answered 3/30/2014
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Breast feeding. : Yes, breast feeding will affect your period. Many people erroneously believe that because of hormone production during breast feeding, you can use this method for birth control. That is not true. There is an increased level of progesterone, and periods are certainly affected.
Answered 3/30/2014
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