<<<I am after some information on why when menstruating a mothers baby 
is extremely irritable and fussy.  This particular baby attaches but
thenhas a suck or two before detatching and screaming.  What has changed 
in the components of the breastmilk? Melinda>>>

In my case it is low milk supply that causes it. The 2 weeks before my 
first period (15 months pp) I had very low milk supply, and late or no 
let downs. nothing helped, until my menstruation came through. The next 
menstruations didn't had such big infuence, but my recent period had 
similar effect: 2 weeks sore nipples and low milk supply.

I wonder if sometimes the mother thinks the milk tastes bad, bc the baby 
is fussy, while it actually is a milk supply/let down problem. 

Anyway, I'm not the only one with such a dramatic decrease in milk 
supply pre menstruation, so I was wondering if someone knows herbs, that 
have balancing effect on the hormones. 
-- 
Annelies Bon               http://www.flnet.nl/~0bon01/bfbronnen.html
mother of Dirk 7yo, Tom 5yo, Pieter 22mo
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bf counsellor in training of the Dutch bf org "Borstvoeding Natuurlijk"