Goals
- Introduction - Topics - Objectives - What is LAM - Normal - Mechanisms - Ovarian - Ovarian - Categories - Categories - Early - Later - History - Bellagio - Georgetown - Efficacy - Criteria 1 - Criteria 2 - Criteria 3 - Advantages - Disadvantages - Behaviors - Behaviors - Who Can Use - Who Can Use - Programmatic - Counseling - Algorithm 1 - Algorithm 2 - Algorithm 3 - Adaptations - Extended - Another - First Choice - Second Choice - Third Choice - Considerations > Summary - Summary
Conclusion
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LAM is a contraceptive method that can be used when a postpartum woman is intensively breastfeeding. LAM relies on full or nearly full breastfeeding and lactational amenorrhea, not breastfeeding alone, for protection from pregnancy.
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