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Exclusive breastfeeding is when you are feeding your child through the breast for a period of mostly six (6) months. You do constant breastfeeding, so you feed on demand or every two (2) hours you are giving the child breast milk. And during that process, there is something that happens; it is called lactational amenorrhea because you are breastfeeding, hormones are being released to suppress menstruation. So mostly, you realise that when women get pregnant and they are breastfeeding, it acts as a kind of contraceptive. It prevents them from having their menses and hence conceiving again. So, you cannot suppress that menstruation. So because of that lactational amenorrhea, where they are not menstruating, they are not releasing the oestrogen. And it is the oestrogen that, when there is an abundance of it, promotes breast cancer growth. So that is halted during breastfeeding because of the frequency with which they are doing it and also some changes that happen in the uterus during the process of breastfeeding. Those are the things that matter. But if you are sucking for one (1) hour or even thirty (30) minutes, you will not do anything. For detecting changes, it is mostly their partners who can even see the breasts and say, ‘No, this breast has changed. This one has gotten bigger and this one has gotten smaller. Maybe you have got some rash on it.
