Personal experience to report only. I've had great success treating these sort of heavy painful cycles with an herb reputed to restore balance to a woman's hormones, and particularly to increase the amount of progesterone relative to estrogen in the second half of the cycle. The herb is know as "Vitex" or "Chasteberry". I take a capsule of the herb every day starting 14 days from the beginning of my cycle until my period. I did that for a few months and had wonderful results, which lasted for six months or so. Rachael Hamlet On 16 Sep 99, at 17:30, Steve Cannello wrote: > Dear Lacnet: > > I have been working with a mother who exclusively breast fed her 13 > month old son until he started solids at 11 months of age (He never > showed an interest in solids until then). Mom's cycle returned at 6 > months postpartum and remained "normal for her" until her son was 9 > months old. Since 9 months her bleeding is very heavy with cramping > and clots; experiences nausea and vomiting 4 days before cycle begins > with episodes of increased hunger and thirst. She is not pregnant but > would like to be. > > Any thoughts on the sudden changes in her monthly cycles? Any > thoughts/ideas on how to treat this mom with herbals etc.? > > Debbie Colbert, RNC, CLE, IBCLC Candidate > > > PS: Any ideas on when the July 1999 IBCLC results will be posted? > *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html