Wait a minute Jack.  You make it sound like we who give DMPA or whatever to
these women are worried that they will get going with sex too soon on their
own instigation.  NOT. or at least not with most.  But we do see their men
cohersing them into unprotected sex too soon, and insisting they leave the
baby home to go party, and insisting on ETOH or Grass or whatever, so the
mom ends up missing feedings, which puts her at risk for unplanned preg if
she is relying on LAM.  Don't get me wrong.  I have a lot of women who use
LAM, and it works well if there is some kind of or

Many women can't " take control of their own bodies" as their old man may
keep them "barefoot and pregnant" as a method of control.  It stinks but it
is a fact of life, and I have done a lot of cussing of my own when a 20
year old comes in for a first prenatal for her 4th kid (at 30 wks
gestation, too).  Not at her, just the sad situation.

Life is really hard when you are on the bottom of the heap, and anything I
can do to make her life easier, I will do.  Don't see many quit BF due to
milk supply.  Most due to social pressures.

Jude Kurokawa, CNM
Wolf Point, MT
Mailto: [log in to unmask]
A Coyote midwife sits by the hole and waits....

Only Cowards cook on low.


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> From: newman <[log in to unmask]>
> To:
> Subject: progesterone injection
> Date: Sunday, October 26, 1997 8:24 AM
>
>
> But what the #@&* is the rush to implant norplant?  I think it is that
> many health professionals don't trust women to take control of their own
> bodies (not surprisingly, since they have tried to prevent this and have
> done more than anyone else to prevent this for many years now).  Another
> reason they don't trust breastfeeding for that matter.  They figure they
> are just going to run out and start making like little bunnies the day
> they get out of hospital, episiotomy or no episiotomy, eh?  I'm not a
> woman, so I won't say.  But you out there in Lactnet territory who are
> women.  Doesn't this just rot your socks?  Doesn't this just make you
> want to scream?
>
> Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC
>