This is my first post to this area. I am an IBCLC working in a large teaching
hospital in the Northeast USA. A very distrubing incident occured to me the
other day and I am now opening it up to the experts on the LACTNEt. A new
nurse working on our postpartum floor informed a patient that she shouldn't
take the DEPO-PROVERA shot prior to her 6 week appointment if she was going
to breastfeed. She was a married woman who wanted to breastfeed VERY much
 and had been unsuccessful in the past. WELL>>her doctor went
crazy..screaming at her, the nurse manager, and me when I was dragged in.
The drug manufacturer does not recommend it and I pointed to the experts in
the lactation field that have associated the decrease milk supply with the
injection. He then dragged me to the computer to show me the studies that in
fact an increase in supply and breastfeeding length. I was quite red face.
Does anyone out there have anything to add? Have you found no decrease? I
would love to have a counter-study in my hot hands to show him.

Stacey Waite, RNC IBCLC
 Boston,MA  USA