Hoo boy. The National Enquirer, whose Which Celebrity Is Knocked Up Now? bureau tends to be dead-on with their reporting, has an exclusive that Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant again.
Sources say she’s eight weeks along — just three months after giving birth in June. Take it away, TNE:
The unplanned pregnancy came as a shock to Jamie Lynn, who’d been breast-feeding her infant daughter Maddie Briann, insiders say.
“Jamie Lynn believed she couldn’t get pregnant while she was breast-feeding,” said the close source. “She’d expected to have her period by early September.” A home pregnancy test came back positive and Jamie Lynn cried her eyes out, said the source.
Her mother Lynne was livid when she found out, divulged an insider.
Meanwhile, insiders say that those close to Jamie Lynn are urging her to abort!
“They’ve reminded Jamie Lynn how much trouble she had adjusting to motherhood with Maddie, and pointed out that having a second baby now would only be a recipe for disaster,” said the close source.
Sex education, people! But this seems to be a reversal from those halcyon “being a mom is the best feeling in the world!” days. Such a great feeling, she’s ready to do it again!
How can’t I say “Oops! I Did It Again” after reading this?
She sure hopped back in the saddle quickly if this is true.
Oy vey!
Well… it isn’t possible to get pregnant while you’re breastfeeding AS LONG AS you do it right. Google ‘Ecological Breastfeeding’ or ‘Lactational Amenorrhea.’
Meanwhile, why hasn’t this girl picked up a book on the subject? I defended her before, because I know from experience that condoms can break and the pill doesn’t always work, but now it’s getting harder to give her the benefit of the doubt if she’s not even making the effort to properly educate herself.
p.s. Being a mother is the greatest job in the world, BUT it’s also tiring, stressful and depressing at times; couple that with the usual teenage angst, and you have a recipe for a lot of ups and downs being shown to the public (plus mood disorders probably run in her family.) I don’t think it’s fair to take a shot at her because a second pregnancy too soon is dramatically upsetting to her. We’re not perfect creatures. My son is almost 2 and I’m still not ready for another - I’m not that strong a woman.
At least she will be the hot grandma in town. (With this family, Maddie will probably have her first at 14)
Aw pshaw, this really isn’t a big deal.
Jamie’s just carrying the baby for her mom. Lynne needs a prop-baby to haul on stage as she campaigns for elected office.
Regarding that “sex education, people” comment.
I remember sex education in school. It was almost entirely about the biological fuction of the male orgasm and female menstruation. Breastfeeding was never discussed, let alone it’s role in fertility; and neither was the female orgasm. I left school thinking sex was entirely about the boy and something a girl had to put up with if she was married and wanted a baby. How can any student walk out of those classes with even the faintest idea of what sex is about and what it encompasses?
The sex ed I had (at an all-girls Catholic school, even) definitely covered the whole you-can’t-get-preggers-while-breastfeeding myth. But I don’t doubt that other programs miss that chapter. It’s still no excuse for her not to pick up a parenting book to research that old wives’ tale, as the stakes were pretty high.
I agree; I must have read a dozen books on breastfeeding when I had my son. I actively and successfully performed environmental breastfeeding myself.
Some of the other sites I’ve read this rumour on are now updating it as false.
The story doesn’t jive, and I don’t think it’s true.
And exclusive breastfeeding as a method of birth control is actually very effective, at least for the first six months - 98 to 99.5% effective. That makes it one of the most effective methods of birth control. http://www.kellymom.com/bf/normal/fertility.html
However, you do have to be breastfeeding exclusively, with a baby less than six months old, and breastfeeding on-demand. In that case, it’s much more effective than a condom, for example.
Regardless, I don’t think Jamie Lynn is pregnant. Not buying it!
Correct me if I am wrong but aren’t women more fertile for several months after giving birth?
I would think that the LAST thing after having a nine pound baby pushed out of your vagina (or getting cut with knives to get the kid out) is having more sex. But I might be wrong since I am nineteen and getting an education. You know, something normal to do.
Well, the second-to-last. The last thing you’d want would be to put the baby back in.
Yes, one would think that. But the siren song of sex calls to teenagers, regardless of baby, leaking boobs, soreness, irritability, doctor’s orders, or stitches. If it’s true, if, then at eight weeks along, she would’ve waited four weeks before having sex. Well, three or four depending on if she was utterly unlucky and got knocked up the first time around. Docs say to wait six weeks, but youngins bounce back quicker. So yes, lack of judgement and research is bad, but say that having sex isn’t “normal” to do for that age bracket rings empty.
Your name is a lie GoMegDotCom, I typed into my address bar and nothing. Oh, wait, do I need to put the ‘www’ before it?
I got nothin’. Oh wait!
Nope.
Of course you can get pregnant while breastfeeding. Surely this girl isn’t that stupid. Starting this young she can have a whole singing/dancing group by the time shes’ 40!! Keep the money rolling in for grandma Lynn’s retirement fund..
You would think that JLS would have learned her lesson from what happened after that last time she was too thick to use a condom. If this is true, which it may not be, I would almost have to hope that having her youngest pump out an entire band is Lynne’s plan for a cushy retirement because I hate to think that even JLS is that incredibly stupid.
if this is true… oh man. how completely embarassing. its called a condom jamie lynn, use it! do you think she’s out-trashed britney this time??
“Correct me if I am wrong but aren’t women more fertile for several months after giving birth?”
You’re wrong. Women are NOT more fertile for several months after giving birth (please go back to sex ed, or take a nice college course like “Human Sexuality and Reproduction” to get with the program). See my post above regarding exclusive breastfeeding on-demand for a baby aged six months or less resulting in birth control effective at 98-99.5%.
During the first 3-6 weeks after giving birth (sometimes a bit shorter or longer), a woman bleeds. She’s experiencing “lochia” or basically a very long period while the uterus gets rid of any extra uterine lining, tissue etc. left over after the birth. The likelihood of ovulating during this early period is very low, unless you’re very fertile, rather unlucky, and NOT breastfeeding your baby exclusively. And, of course, you need to ovulate (release an egg) in order to get pregnant. Plus, the environment in the womb is not especially welcoming to a fertilized egg. The uterus is still shrinking and returning to normal size, the lining is sloughing off . . . while pregnancy is certainly possible, particularly if a woman isn’t breastfeeding, it’s not likely and certainly no more likely than an average cycle.
If you need a more detailed explanation, you could always ask your parents. I’m not sure I’m comfortable acting as the resident reproductive expert.
I wonder if she was even awake when the pregnanacy occured? That or she must be asking random kids on the street what they know about sex.
Fine JJ. Then I’ll act as the resident reproductive expert. But it’s only because I’m such a huge stud.
I asked my aunt who just recently had a baby and she said even after two months she just wanted to sleep and sit on her ass watching TV. She had NO interest whatsoever for sex. She was just too tired, sore from breastfeeding, worried about how her daughter was doing/eating/sleeping/pooping, etc.
I was going to say something about my name to Pastafarian. But I got nothing right now. I guess that name came from my dad when I told him about wanting to try vegan when I was 14.
JJ - Thanks for the info….a little snarky but hey what the hell.
What are you talking about Meg?
Isn’t this proof of the utter failure of public sex education and birth control?
Pastafarian, I asked my aunt about the whole “being fertile” after popping a kid out and she just burst out laughing. Then I got off topic trying to explain my name. Man I need to work on that.
Apparently going vegan afects your ability to concentrate!