The Texas Dept of State Health Services has a good pamphlet on BF and Family 
Planning in English and Spanish. It is a chart listing all the methods and 
how they affect breastfeeding, their PG rates, etc. It clearly states that 
Depo should be given after 6 weeks PP and there is a risk of reduced milk 
supply. I give this out to all the mothers I am loaning an Elite pump to for 
hospitalized babies or when doing home consultations. We are trying to give 
them out to moms in our WIC clinics also. We have lots of doctors down here 
trying to get moms on some sort of chemical BC method before leaving the 
hospital. I once had a polite disagreement with an OB who had BF both her 
children about the importance of waiting 6 weeks before giving this shot or 
other hormone contraception. She felt they would be pregnant again if she 
did not start them on something immediately. Check your state health dept 
for something similiar.

Kathy Eng, BSW, IBCLC 

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