Thanks.  However, usually Hale and Briggs, Freeman, etc are all I need.
It's rare I can't find something in the latest edition of Tom Hale's book.
I was not aware that Levora is the same as O. Novum, and I'm a stickler when
it comes to drugs.  I wanted to see Levora listed specifically, and it
wasn't anywhere in either book.  I figured all along that she'd be fine, and
that she never should have been told to wean in the first place, but I like
solid (& preferably in-print) confirmation before I give a client my
professional opinion about a medication.

In any event, I was able to nail it down to my satisfaction yesterday, and I
really enjoyed calling her back <g>.  Mother/toddler are back to nursing as
of yesterday afternoon.  Thanks for the suggestions.....
Regina Roig Lane, BS IBCLC for Miami-Dade County WIC

> -----Original Message-----
> regina, you need another book, and the doctor that gave this to this woman
> needs to know he *cannot* prescribe a drug about which he knows so little.
> c'mom, this one ain't so hard. i got a cheap little book from mosby
> "medical
> drug reference," because i wanted to have something easy to carry around
> or
> look at when i wasn't at the computer (there are several drug websites) or
> when the local drug center was not open (its quicker to look in a book
> than
> to call someone).
>
> levora is just a combined estrogen/progestin monophasic birth control
> pill,
> and it is not contraindicated during breastfeeding according to hale (look
> under ortho-novum, same drug).

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