What is the ruling for a woman with post-natal bleeding if she breaks her fast in Ramadan?

The Shaykh : The woman with post-natal bleeding is in one of two states: either she is nursing or she is not. If she is nursing, the ruling for a pregnant woman applies to her, meaning she must pay expiation for breaking her fast if she does not make up the fast, and the two do not combine, as I mentioned earlier. However, the woman who became a woman with post-natal bleeding due to a miscarriage, or because the child or fetus was born alive and then died—the point is that she did not become...

The questioner : ...or her milk did not come.

The Shaykh : ...a nursing woman. She did not become a nursing woman. Let us resolve the first issue first, and then we will see if other matters branch out or not. Since she is not a nursing woman, it is not permissible for her to do anything other than making up the fast. As for the first case, she has the dispensation of expiation, but this is the detailed ruling. As for the one whose milk did not come, she is nursing her child either through artificial feeding or through a wet nurse; in this case, she is also not a nursing woman... It is the act of nursing, not... the pregnancy from before, that is not the operative cause of the expiation... No, so any woman who only gave birth must make up the fast, and it is obligatory. But she is a woman with post-natal bleeding and at the same time... so she has the dispensation of expiation if she wishes, and she does not have to make up the fast. Is that clear?

The questioner: Yes.