The Perrin-Sheps model of human reproduction as a renewal process is used to quantify the increases in natural fertility to be expected from an exchange of prolonged breastfeeding for bottle feeding, under stated conditions of nutrition. By means of the same model, the amount of contraception needed to counteract these enhancements of natural fertility is also assessed.
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Robert G. Potter (1975) studied this question.
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