Bromocriptine used to be given routinely in the local hospital to women postpartum who did not want to breastfeed "to dry them up" - until there were 3 separate cases of women having either a CVA or other major neurological event. The case studies were written up (forget the reference, but the first author was Katz-M, and I think it was the last part of the 1980s), and bromocriptine is no longer used for this purpose in Israel. Now, I am not a doctor, but in view of the above, I would see to it that the woman was *informed* of this "side effect" of bromocriptine. IMHO, that is. Judy Knopf in Beer Sheva, Israel