[regarding time after birth]
You need at *least* 3 months to recuperate. A year is a lot
better.
And you don't ovulate the day after you give birth -- it can be a
few months.
It can be a lot longer if you breast feed: breast feeding tends to
prevent ovulation. Nearly 20 years ago, a friend of mine who set up
rural family planning clinics and trained people to run them in places
like Africa said that breast feeding can serve to control birth rates
from the point of view of a government, but that it is not reliable
enough for a family.
Thus, if you wean a child old enough, and when breast feeding works,
you can spread out births to one every four years. If I remember
rightly, the ideal sequence in one tribe went like this: When you are
pregnant, and presuming all the kids live (which was not likely), the
four year old herds the goats, the 8 year old helps around the hut,
the 12 year old herds the cattle and the 16 year old is either a
warrior or a wife. (But if a 16 old female has been eating little, or
walking more than 4000 miles per year, she is not likely to be
fertile.)
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