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The role of lactation in delaying conception

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Maternal and Child Health Around the World

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Maternal and child health services are an integral part of any health care programme and birth spacing and adequate infant nutrition are crucial to their success. The interrelationships between lactation, birth spacing and nutrition of the foetus and the infant must be carefully considered.

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  1. Pramilla Senanayake MBBS, DTPH, PhD
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Section on Maternal and Child Health, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, 92182, San Diego, California, USA

    Helen M. Wallace MD, MPH (Professor and head) (Professor and head)

  2. Tropical Child Health Unit, Institute of Child Health, University of London, London, England

    G. J. Ebrahim FRCP(Ed. and Glas.) DCH(Lond.) (Senior lecturer) (Senior lecturer)

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© 1981 H. M. Wallace and G. J. Ebrahim

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Senanayake, P. (1981). The role of lactation in delaying conception. In: Wallace, H.M., Ebrahim, G.J. (eds) Maternal and Child Health Around the World. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05386-5_12

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