----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jaye Simpson, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] Depo and informed consent

**Hi Jaye,

> Ugh.this is one of those things I get really upset about.I worked with a
> very young mom (15) a couple years ago whose Dr gave her a depo shot right
> out the door - she didn't even know what it was.  He told her she needed 
> it
> - she said OK I trust you.  She desperately wanted to BF.her supply 
> crashed
> - she had bleeding issues that were blamed on Depo.She was so hurt and 
> angry
> that her HCP she trusted would do this to her.without her consent.  Sad.

**Apart from the medical aspects (good to know them...), it is beyond me why 
a doctor would hand a mom who is a few days pp a contraceptive!
That is not for the doctor to decide, is it...? We've discussed it here 
before, the tendency to give people contraceptives because those who give 
them, feel that the mother should not get pregnant.
Really, this is out of my personal world; I never took oral contraceptives 
(apart from a trip to Egypt and India... didn't want my trip spoiled by my 
period... hahaha), because I don't want my body to think it is pregnant and 
therefore not ovulate. Must be something weird about that in the long run... 
(Yeah... call me old fashioned, like my kids do... ;o))

Warmly,

Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands

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