Estrogen is the milk inhibiting factor in oral combination birth control
pills. I have been recently doing some research on them and have many
articles that say that estrogen will decrease moms supply. I have 4 moms
to date , working moms, who were pumping with good double pumps, started
the combo pill and in 7  - 14 days noticed a dramatic drop in supply,,
stopped the pill, took fenugreek ( 2 of them did) increased pumps and
nursing s and got milk back, the o ne doc that was doing this, stated
that not too long ago ACOG released a tech bulletin thats stated that if
milk supply was well established , combo pills were ok , I am unable to
access the bulletin on the web because you need to be a physician, any
docs on here , can you access it????? I would love to see it. Any way ,
i spoke with this MD , and he going to start fully informing moms  of
this side effect!

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