question about irish twins

tct1219 · April 2009

if you know any, do you know if their mother was breastfeeding when she conceived? i just can't imagine how that happens all that often with women who are BF.

sawyer2 · April 2009

a friend had a baby end of Jan and is pg again and she was not breast feeding

libertadw · April 2009

I dont have Irish twins but I BF and exactly 4 weeks after DS was born I got my period, so the myth is wrong.

mooeta · April 2009

My grandmother has a set of irish quads if that is such a thing. We think that she got KU every time she slept with my GF.

Married2MrWright · April 2009

I have a twin brother. When we were 7 months old my mom got PG with our younger brother. So she had 3 kids under 2! I should probably mention that my mom family is actually Irish-American (her mother's mother immigrated from Cork). LOL! My mom was a young mom (had us just shy of her 20th birthday and my brother at 21) and obviously, was quite fertile. She had her tubes tied after that.

gingerfamily · April 2009

What do you mean you can't conceive how it happens? Some people actually want their children close together. I'm the youngest of 5 and there are 7 years between me and my oldest brother. Our whole family is one big set of Irish twins.

Perhaps you should have lurked on Irish Twins day.

vic0223 · April 2009

My friend had Irish twins and was breast feeding.

mariahcohen · April 2009

My SIL has Irish Twins and she WAS breastfeeding when she got KU with #2. Breastfeeding is NOT good birth control. That is an OWT!

MrsCarroll.6-10-07 · April 2009

A friend of mine got pregnant when her 1st son was 5-6 weeks old. She may have been breastfeeding, but I don't think so, I think she was also just plain dumb and didn't think she'd get pregnant so soon after giving birth. Her sons are 10 months apart. Then she had a daughter about 2 years later with her boyfriend...her husband has the 2 sons and her and her bf have the daughter.

AJflowers · April 2009

My SIL got pg breast feeding twins...so she was breast feeding all the time, though I think they were sleeping through the night so that really doesn't count as exclusive.

breast feeding as BC is only reliable when the child is less than 6 months, you are breast feeding exclusively, and you have not had a period. All three of these things must occur for it to be over 90% effective.

AJflowers · April 2009

PS~it's not an OWT. There are medical reasons why women won't conceive while BF'ing, but like most things it's not 100% and has to be "used" correctly.

https://www.breastfeedingbasics.com/html/breastfeeding_and_birth_control.shtml

tct1219 · April 2009

mrsh0606:
What do you mean you can't conceive how it happens? Some people actually want their children close together. I'm the youngest of 5 and there are 7 years between me and my oldest brother. Our whole family is one big set of Irish twins.

Perhaps you should have lurked on Irish Twins day.

you misunderstood what i wrote. i want my kids to be close together, too.

when you're breastfeeding, it is supposed to naturally delay your period and therefore ovulation. obviously, with a lot of people it doesn't happen that way but with some women (even those who don't breastfeed) it takes a long time for their periods to regulate and to ovulate again.

what i said is that it seems unlikely that a woman who is breastfeeding could get pregnant so soon after giving birth. not that it's impossible, but it doesn't seem like it would happen that often.

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