Is what you are eating causing you to make less milk?

Foods:

  • Sage

  • Parsely

      • Do you like tabouleh?

  • Peppermint
      • Do you 'pop' Altoids?

Medications:

  • Hormonal Birth Control
      • Mini Pill or Progesterone only pill is not reported in the manufacturers' literature as decreasing milk production, but lactation consultants are seeing it very frequently in the community (I saw 5 mothers in 1 week with a decreased milk production. Once they stopped the birth control pill their milk supply returned.
  •  Methergine
      • Often used for post partum hemorrhage
  • Pseudoephedrine
      • Sudafed, Halofed, Actifed
      • Sudafed PE is okay
      • More likely to occur after 4 months