caa a22 4500 386397139 CHVBK 20180307112142.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021932000017740 doi S0021932000017740 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021932000017740 Jones Robert E. Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, University Center at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York Breast-feeding and post-partum amenorrhoea in Indonesia [Elektronische Daten] [Robert E. Jones] The association between breast-feeding patterns and resumption of menses post-partum was examined in a prospective study in Indonesia. In order to examine these relationships directly in a longitudinal study, it was first necessary to distinguish among women who experienced infant mortality before menses resumed, women who weaned before menses resumed, and women who had return to menses while breast-feeding. Information on suckling patterns and menstrual status was collected by recall for 444 women at monthly visits for 2 years. Three main breast-feeding variables, minutes per episode, number of episodes per day, number of episodes per night, and other breast-feeding variables were derived for each woman, to give the average nursing pattern up to menses or the end of the study, whichever came first. While high levels of nursing for each of these three main variables were found to be significantly related to delay in return of menses post-partum, the interactions between more minutes per episode, and more frequent day- and night-time feeds, were found to be the most important factors in the delay in onset of post-partum menstruation in those women whose menses resumed while still nursing or who remained amenorrhoeic and nursing at the end of the study. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/1(1989-01), 83-100 0021-9320 21:1<83 1989 21 JBS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000017740 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000017740 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jones Robert E. Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, University Center at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/1(1989-01), 83-100 0021-9320 21:1<83 1989 21 JBS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge