Hi Diane, and All: It's standard practice in my area hospitals to give Depo to teen moms within 48 hours after delivery. The rationale is these moms will not abstain from intercourse before the 6 week check-up and are too irresponsible to use another method of birth control before then. So, the shot they get. Actually, I didn't encounter too many problems with low milk supply in this population of mothers. Most did just fine. Because I was doing weekly and biweekly home visits with them, it was also easier for them to remember to go back every 3 months and get another Depo shot with me constantly reminding them. To comment further on interruptions and cell phones. Just as I was leaving work the other day, a new dad called me from the Birth Center - his wife needed help with latch-on, could I come down and help? When I got down to their room just a minute or 2 later, both parents were each on a cell phone and the baby lay naked on a turned-off warmer, looking around. The mom barely interrupted her phone conversation to greet me. At this point her nurse came back in with a handful of hot packs. I told her that I was there at the parents' request to help with brstfdg. Oh, no, the baby is too cold! He needs to be wrapped and stuffed with hot packs! I turned to the mother and probably not too politely her she needed to get off the phone NOW because her baby needed to be warmed. Fortunately, the nurse backed off and promptly left the room. We did get the baby skin-to-skin and toasty warm but he did not nurse right then. I'm still having trouble with this scenario - we have a cold baby (45 minutes old) laying naked on a warmer that isn't even turned on!!! while both parents sit on cell phones! After they had requested brstfdg help! Go figure... Pam Hirsch, RN,BSN,CLC Clinical Lead, Lactation Services Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Barrington, IL USA *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html