Is it obligatory for a woman to make up for days she missed in Ramadan due to pregnancy and breastfeeding, then missed the rest of the month after her child's reliance on breastfeeding decreased, knowing that she fed some fasting people for those days?
A pregnant or breastfeeding woman may break her fast if she or the child would be harmed, and she must make up the missed days. If breaking the fast is out of fear for the child, then in addition to making up the days, she must feed a poor person for each day, according to many scholars. As for breaking the fast after that without an excuse, it is a grave sin, and she must make up the days along with repentance. She must also pay a fidyah (expiatory feeding) of a poor person's meal for each day that her making up of the fast was delayed until another Ramadan began, according to many scholars, unless she was unaware of the impermissibility of the delay, in which case some scholars hold that no fidyah is due upon her.
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