Help please! Estrogen cream??

Question

My ob prescribed this because intercourse still hurts. However I'm worried it's going to diminish my milk supply. Anyone have any experience with this?

Answer

As far as I remember estrogen doesn't cause your milk supply to go its progesterone that does. Estrogen is actually what you need for milk supply.

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I would be careful with it. I'm not finding much information on it beside a LLL forum where someone has the same issue as you. Their milk supply decreased after using it. I would stop using before your milk supply is gone. I would think it would drop your milk supply because your hormones are still leveling out after you have the baby and you still have progesterone that is starting to get leveled back out with your estrogen. I don't think a doctor should be prescribing progesterone or estrogen while breastfeeding because every woman's hormones are different. Try to feed baby more to see if your supply increases or try pumping and demanding more. If within 3 days you're still feeling as if your milk supply is going down see if avoiding the estrogen helps.

Answer

Did the OB say it could effect your supply?

Help please! Estrogen cream??

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