When to have a second child?

One pregnancy follows another - it was generally accepted order of things in the families of our grandmothers and great grandmothers. 3-4 generations ago there was nothing strange in the fact that children in the family were in a row, and the girl who married early and not knowing any means of contraception, had time to give birth to 4-5, and even more children for their married life.

 But the society was fundamentally different from today, with rigid patriarchal attitudes, where the number of children was indicator of prosperity of the family. Not surprisingly, the women of those times grew old before time, undermine the health and quickly wore out and the mentally and physically.
We are in no way not to say that the kind of family life had its positive aspects, just today, it is impossible. Extremely rare to find a family with more than two children, including because they provide decent standards of modern life is worth a lot of money - at a cost of only one living space for a big family! Besides the quality and pace of life of modern women is fundamentally different from the lifestyle of their foremothers.
Keen on a career girl who suited to the birth of their first child much later than it did before. But one child is often unwilling to stop. Therefore a natural question arises: when you can start the second, how much time must elapse between the pregnancy?
Specialists agree that it should take 2-3 years from the end of breastfeeding the first baby before the woman be pregnant a second child. This is reasonable from the viewpoint of recovery of women's health, and child: by the time the younger brother or sister, the first child will not be helpless and to his few years of life has already received a dose of parental attention.
After birth, a female body should be at least 6-8 weeks to just bounce back. During this time, tired and stretching the uterus returns to its usual size and restored menstrual cycle, but this is only if mother is not breastfeeding! With the usual order of things is the process of returning the body to the rhythm of life takes more time, because the hormone prolactin, slows down the ovaries.
In any case, even during the period of breastfeeding in women may be ovulating, and therefore must be closely related to the resumption of sexual life after birth, using the necessary means of contraception. This is a common misconception that some time after birth can a woman not afraid to get pregnant, and often leads to unplanned children is the weather, which often affects the female body.
When scenario that an early second child is your goal, and considering that on average two months later the woman becomes again able to conceive, is strictly recommended to wait at least until 6 months after first birth. This allows the body to at least consume extra pounds, earned during the previous pregnancy, that is not only important from an aesthetic standpoint, but also to restore normal metabolism and to bring the body to its normal state.
Finally, one more nuance. If the first child was born by Caesarean section, it should definitely wait to get fully healed scars, implying a period of not less than one year.
Of course, when giving birth the second child - a fully customized solution, which is taken depending on the combination of psychological and physical condition of the body. The calculation must take all: the mother's age and weight, and heredity, and health and lifestyle and many other other factors.
It is best to reasonably evaluate their psycho-physical strength, to consult with your partner and with your gynecologist to fully ready to embark on a new adventure is the second child.