When I was on the postnatal ward a few months ago, I was there long enough to hear a lot of discharges done by the same midwife. She told every new mum very seriously and emphatically "you are more fertile now than you have been in your entire life" to lead in to a conversation about contraception. She seemed to the chief midwife who was telling the others what to do so I would expect her to know what she's talking about but SURELY this is wrong? As far as I'm aware, if you're EBF and your period hasn't returned then you can only get pregnant if you catch that first ovulation and that's really unlikely in the early weeks, you're probably LESS fertile than you've ever been. Even if you don't breastfeed though I don't think you're MORE fertile straight after birth than at other times, are you? Is there evidence for this? I understand emphasising the importance of contraception, and making sure that women are aware at discharge that they CAN get pregnant now. It's really important to get that across because another pregnancy in quick succession is of course possible. But AIBU to think that giving misinformation in order to emphasise the point just treats us like teenagers? I had a different midwife at my own discharge who didn't say this so I never got to challenge it!