Peg asks,


> .  I suspect it was probably Methergin, but
> mom wasn't sure - she kept callleing it oxytocin.  Anyway, I suspected
> retained placenta as her milk supply seemed low and baby wasn't gaining. Now
> I'm wondering if the meds to control the bleeding may have   effected the
> development of the oxytocin receptore you wrote about.
>
> It was probably ergotrate -- and high doses of ergotrate can interfere with
> and shut down prolactin.  It's possible to overcome it, but it really
> depends on how long they give the ergotrate for....and the other thing is,
> with a really heavy blood loss you have to consider an insult, if not an
> infarct, to the pituitary which will also impact prolactin production.
>
>

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