Abstract
An examination of breastfeeding and postpartum amenorrhea survey was carried out on 196 rural Mada women in central Nigeria. It was realized that, age, educational background and religious belief does not affect the duration of postpartum amenorrhea (PPA). The survival function of subjects decreases as the duration of breastfeeding without resuming menses increases, while, the hazard function increases as the duration of breastfeeding without return menses increases. Also, the duration of PPA varies from one woman to another. The study also shows that the association between breastfeeding and PPA does not necessarily indicate that duration of breastfeeding affect the duration of PPA, but could be that the two are control by some physiological effect of hormones.
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