Safe Distance Between Pregnancy

Each partner has its own expectations about the number of children who want to have. There are already enough with two kids alone, and still others want to have many children. For couples who want to have lots of children there must be motivation that drove such aspire to have big families.

Before planning to become pregnant again, the couple should think about pregnancy safe distance. Spacing of the first and second pregnancies aimed at keeping the spacing between pregnancies that are not too close or too far away. Often times found a new mother who gave birth a few months was already pregnant again, this is usually not planned by the couple. If it is so, then the woman should be an extra in maintaining pregnancy.


According to obstetricians, pregnancy safe distance between 9 months to 24 months and above all the better. However, the distance should be the first and second pregnancy are also not too much that is not more than 59 months because of that increasing maternal age. Keep the advance of pregnancy has several goals, among which are:

1.     Provide respite for a woman's body after giving birth because it saps a lot of energy. After giving birth women take a lot of rest to restore the muscles of his body as before.
2.     To restore the female organs of women after childbirth. Woman's uterus after delivery, the weight to be 2 times higher than before pregnancy. To restore it to its original weight takes at least 3 months, it was a normal birth. To birth in a way caecar takes much longer.
3.     Setting up the psychology of women before becoming pregnant again. Women usually experience postpartum trauma because of the pain of childbirth or when stitched. It takes a long time to make a woman ready to get pregnant and give birth again.
4.     For women with a history of caecar give birth, birth defects, pre-eclampsia, it is recommended to provide adequate spacing between pregnancies. Because they are at greater risk than women with normal birth history. According to the doctor, gave birth to a greater risk in women aged over 35 years. Because the best age is 20 smpai birth 30 years.
5.     So that babies who are exclusively breastfed from birth mother, this can not be done if the mother is pregnant again. Even if you can, the quality of breast milk has changed nutrition.

That's part of some of the goals set spacing between pregnancies, it aims to maintain the safety of mother and baby. If the distance of the first and second pregnancies can be maintained, it is expected that the mother and child will get their rights.