Birth Control and Breastfeeding

Different types of birth control can impact lactation in different ways, so all situations require individualized decision making.  And, of course, if you do not feel like having sex at all – this is ok and normal postpartum.  Patients sometimes remark that they return to the ob/gyn for their six week postpartum visit and they are “cleared for sex and cleared for exercise, the last two things anyone is possibly interested in at that time in their life!”