Dear Chris, I was wondering if you could share your short article citing references about progesterones and milk supply loss with me, also. I would like to have something for my clients. And the two ob/gyn's who are causing so much trouble with them. They seem to like to try out every new birth control product that comes out. Nor QD was 2002-2003 here. And one mom still just this past Tuesday, from another doctor in another city. This year (one in December, 2 in January)I have helped 3 mothers who were given Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo! The mothers tell me the same thing, that the ob said that he has heard that the pill might affect some mothers milk but that he has never personally seen it happen and that their milk supply will be fine. 2 moms wanted help the 3rd was returning her pump and mentioned her milk drying up, so upon further discussion, I found that she was on the Ortho, she didn't say LO so I wonder if he gave her full strength. These moms never thought it would be the pill because of what the doctor told them. They just wanted to know what had happened to their milk. So frustrating. Rather than go into the whole of each case (which I am sure you have seen many times) the big point I try to get across to them is how important it is to TELL that doctor that the pill DID cause a drop in supply. Ordinarily the mom sees them between 4-8 weeks, gets the pill prescription and doesn't see them again for a whole year. (If she even goes back at that time.) So, of course, he never gets to hear that she 'dried up'. A year later she is not thinking of it and she really didn't put 2 and 2 together anyway, when she started losing her milk, baby just became fussier or was losing weight, not satisfied, etc. started supplementing and 'voila!' the weaning. Of course, he doesn't ask if she is still BF. And she'll be the next one with a relative or friend in my BF class who will say that they knew so and so who didn't have enough milk for her baby! If enough moms actually give their doctors the feed back then maybe they'll believe that their might be a problem with prescribing and to at least let mom be aware of the potential for milk loss and to stop the pill and call for alternative birth control options, if need be. I just wonder how many mothers this happens to and they never call for help. I'm sure I probably only hear from about one percent. Well off of my soapbox. Thank you, Cheryl Marian [log in to unmask] *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html