Dear Friends:
 
The manufacturer of Depo-Provera says that this medication should not be given to breastfeeding mothers until lactation is well-established, at 6 weeks postpartum.
 
Shabaan was the researcher who discovered that Depo was compatible with breastfeeding. "Early postpartum" in the Shabaan study was 8 weeks postpartum, for poor and rural Egyptian women who had no access to human milk substitutes and were culturally mandated to breastfeed.
 
There is a big difference between the abstract and the full study in this case.
  
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CCE
 
 

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