Not exact matches
In a situation where the mother had had a good milk supply, but it decreased for some reason (e.g. going
on the
birth control pill, see handout # 25 Slow Weight Gain After the First Few Months), domperidone
often works very rapidly to increase the milk supply.
Often, your doctor will put you
on birth control pills to regulate your hormones, but if you have PCOS and pregnancy is
on your radar, you may instead be prescribed fertility medications.
When a mother has a decrease in milk supply,
often associated with the use of
birth control pills (avoid œstrogen containing
birth control pills while breastfeeding), or
on occasion, for no obvious reason when the baby is three or four months old, domperidone will
often bring the supply back to normal.
If you have been
on birth control pills for an extended amount of time, you will
often have very light periods and sometimes no period at all.
The amount tends to vary
on a day - to - day basis,
often affected by factors like ovulation and
birth control.
Dr. Nathan says women who don't make enough can
often attribute it to dehydration, going
on hormonal
birth control, or formula supplementation — which decreases the amount of natural milk a woman produces.
It's
often not until we get off
birth control pills, start trying to get pregnant, or hit that big weight loss plateau that we even begin to wonder what's going
on in our hormonal landscape.
To add insult to injury, our water is
often contaminated with the hormones that women
on hormonal
birth control pee into our water systems, plus things like fluoride, pesticides and possibly heavy metals.
Women with a history of taking
birth control often have their b - vitamins depleted (in particular vitamin B6, B12 and folic acid), so if you're
on the pill or have taken the pill in the past, you need to be extra careful to eat foods rich in b - vitamins (and / or take a supplement).
Dr. Christina Bjorndal, ND examines some of the
often skipped over adverse effects of the
birth control pill; she examines its impact
on inducing nutrient deficiencies and ways to offset these.
In this case, a functional medicine doctor will have a much more thorough approach to estrogen issues, because medical doctors all too
often reach for
birth control pills to correct problems, which actually stack
on more estrogen.
A word of caution
on birth control, too: The spermicide nonoxynol - 9 —
often used with condoms and diaphragms — can create a welcoming environment for bad bacteria.
Members of such ministries share the expenses of medical bills, but because they are
often based
on religion, they may not cover services they consider unethical like
birth control.
Both of these conditions are
often treated with hormonal
birth control, which means these women would be hit the hardest by attacks
on access to
birth control.