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Originally Posted by fzzy

From my understanding, for many women who breast feed, they stop ovulating for a time, therefore if she is breast feeding, it is less likely that she would get pregnant again until after she finishes, but it's not a cut and dried thing. I have four older sisters who are born in a time span of less than 5 years and no multiple births in that group, and then another child (before me) just a year and a half later.

Just to clarify....it is my understanding that many women will stop menstruating, not necessarily ovulating. In most cases if you are not menstruating you are not ovulating, but as mentioned it is not 100%. There have been many pregnancies, due to nursing mothers thinking they are unable to conceive. After my last pregnancy the doctors told me to wait on intercourse until my six week post pregnancy check up. At this point they recommended waiting on pregnacy another 6 months. I'm not sure if this is standard or not.