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Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:25:57 EST
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Dear Friends:
    Lisa asks about milk supply depo at 8 weeks postpartum. The Shaaban study
looked at rural women in Egypt; all mandated by culture to breastfeed for at
least 2 years; no breastmilk substitutes available anywhere. And they got the
Depo shot at 8 weeks postpartum.
    No impact on breastfeeding duration or  babyies' growth.
    I just had a thought. Maybe giving a hormone, even a synthetic one like
Depo, can change a person's chemistry enough to make weaning a possibility.
Emotions are molecules are hormones........give a hormone that mimics a
pregnancy effect and maybe mamma withdraws  energetically from her nursling.
Could this precede physical weaning? Or at least make her more susceptible to
weaning messages?
    Candace Pert's book Molecules of Emotion is a fabulous story, both from
the feminine and from the scientific. I highly recommend it.
    Back to Lisa's question, with people, anything is possible. Maybe the
shot is affecting this particular woman; and keep looking for other,
concomitant reasons.
    So much of lactation work is looking for more than one reason. I love it!!
    Warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner; childbirth educator
Elkins Park (a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; northeastern USA)
supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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