Hello, All. Karen's post seems to rule out that retained placental fragments could be causing lowered milk supply, yet several have posted who seem to have seen endometritis possibly cause lowered milk supply. Since endometritis is an infection, I am wondering: do the mothers run a fever with this? If so, that could be the missing piece of the puzzle. For the past couple of years, every winter I have been receiving phone calls from mothers who had a fever of 102 degrees or higher with the flu, who then have significantly lowered milk supply. In consulting with another friend who is also an IBCLC, we came up with the thought that perhaps the high fever injures the pituitary in some way, and that injury causes the drop in milk production. In the moms I have worked with, after a high fever the milk seems to stay low for anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months, in spite of trying various remedies for increasing supply. Of course, if there is no fever with endometritis, then this conjecture of mine is "all wet". (I'm not an RN, and never had the condition myself, so I don't know if fever accompanies it.) Dee Dee Kassing, BS, MLS, IBCLC Collinsville, Illinois, in central 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(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html