In a message dated 6/28/97 1:05:43 AM, you wrote:

<<mini-pill and milk supply>>

I, too, have been concerned about the big rush to start progestin-only
contraception early.  My patients are not prescribed such contraception until
their 6 week postpartum checkup.  With the experience described of a drop in
milk supply when the mini-pill was started a few months after the initiation
of lactation, one has to wonder if there is a "window of opportunity" in some
patients.  Maybe some patients can't be started too early nor can they be
started too late, say, after 10 or 12 weeks.

I'll be going nomail in about 24 hours because I'm leaving for Washington to
attends LaLeche's Annual Physicians' Seminar.  Maybe I'll see some
Lactnetters there!......V. Nichols-Johnson, MD