Just got a call from a mom yesterday. Baby is 7 weeks....... mom reports
very abundant milk supply until this past weekend. Baby used to take only
7-10 min per breast, sometimes even only one breast a feeding, to tank up,
and mom could pump 4-6 oz *after* this. On Friday she had some mastitis
symptoms and went to her HCP. She was given an antibiotic, and also a
depo-provera shot. Baby started getting fussy on Saturday, and now wants to
eat "all the time." When mom tries to pump with her mini-electric, she gets
"almost nothing" in the bottle.

I am currently working on assessing her true deficit, which may be severe.
Mom and grandma were suspicious of the depo despite the reassurances of the
package literature. I suspect that they are right. My question: has anyone
ever worked with a mom in this early stage of depo-provera and milk supply
problems when it is given around 2 mos pp?  Such a response from the shot
when given soon after birth seems to usually be lethal to milk supply--- but
at 2 mos, are there any recovery possibilities? What have others tried, and
was anything particularly successful?

Thanks,
Lisa Marasco IBCLC

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