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- Medical Video: How soon after giving birth via c-section can have sex?
- When can I use a family planning device after giving birth?
- It also depends on the contraception you want to use after giving birth
Medical Video: How soon after giving birth via c-section can have sex?
After pregnancy and childbirth, you certainly want to enjoy your new time with your newborn baby. At this time, you might not want to get pregnant again first. Even if you give exclusive breastfeeding to your baby, you can delay menstruation a little so you can delay pregnancy naturally. However, using a family planning device after giving birth to delay pregnancy may be needed.
When can I use a family planning device after giving birth?
After giving birth, the mother's body will not immediately release the egg again so that your fertility does not return immediately after you give birth. Your body needs some time to recover as before pregnancy. The time when the body will release the egg again may no one know exactly.
The menstrual period usually returns from about six weeks to three months after you give birth to a baby. But, each mother will be different in getting menstruation back. In fact, your fertility may have returned before you realized it (before you menstruated). Usually fertility will return two weeks before you menstruate.
So, if you don't want to get pregnant again after giving birth, you should begin to consider what FP methods you want to use later. When you start using a family planning device after giving birth it may be different for each mother. This depends on your readiness and also how you breastfeed your baby.
Usually mothers who breastfeed their babies exclusively can delay their menstrual periods returning longer. However, you should start using a family planning device from three weeks or four weeks after giving birth. This can make you more calm when having sexual relations with your husband after giving birth.
It also depends on the contraception you want to use after giving birth
Different KB devices, can distinguish the time when you should use a family planning device after giving birth. Also, the consideration of contraceptives affecting breast milk production makes you have to pay more attention to when and which contraceptives you can use after giving birth.
- If you want to use combination birth control pills, vaginal rings, and KB patches, You can start using it from 21 days after giving birth, if you don't breastfeed your baby. However, if you breastfeed your baby, you should wait longer to start using these three family planning devices. Until you don't breastfeed your baby or after a 6 month old baby. Why? Because these three family planning devices contain the hormone estrogen which can affect the production of breast milk in your body.
- If you want to use KB injection, diaphragm, or hood of the cervixYou can use it after 6 weeks of giving birth. These three family planning devices are safe and do not affect your milk production if used while breastfeeding.
- If you want to use a family planning device IUD (spiral KB), ideally the installation of an IUD is done immediately after giving birth so that the mother does not need to feel pain repeatedly. This method is considered practical. In addition, the IUD will not interfere with your milk production. If you want to delay the installation of an IUD, then this family planning device can only be installed six to eight weeks after you give birth.
Apart from being breastfeeding after giving birth, body size can also influence the choice of birth control devices after childbirth. The birth control device that you will use after giving birth must be adjusted to your current condition after becoming pregnant. So, a family planning device that you can use after giving birth may be different from the family planning tool you normally use before becoming pregnant.
