<a title="Postpartum Mood Disorder Treated with Progesterone" href="http://www.naprotechnology.com/depression.htm" target="_blank">Postpartum Mood Disorder Treated with Progesterone Therapy</a>

http://www.naprotechnology.com/depression.htm

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Dr. Al Sears, M.D.

<a title="PPD - It's not in your mind" href="http://www.alsearsmd.com/its-not-in-your-mind/">http://www.alsearsmd.com/its-not-in-your-mind/</a>

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Dr. Katharine Dalton, UK - Pioneer in treating PMS &amp; PPMD with bioidentical progesterone

<a title="Natural Progesterone Advisory Network" href="http://www.natural-progesterone-advisory-network.com/PDFs/dalton.pdf#search=%22katharina%20dalton%22" target="_blank">http://www.natural-progesterone-advisory-network.com/PDFs/dalton.pdf#search=%22katharina%20dalton%22</a>

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<a title="Natural Progesterone Advisory Network" href="http://www.natural-progesterone-advisory-network.com/PDFs/dalton.pdf#search=%22katharina%20dalton%22" target="_blank">Courtney Cox  - attributes progesterone therapy to alleviating her postpartum mood disorder symptoms - racing heart, sleep problems, depression</a>

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Breastfeeding with Postpartum Depression - Notice the mention of progesterone - only synthetic progesterone is studied - it actually acts like a progestin in a woman's body so this cannot be extrapolated to other forms of progesterone.

<a title="Breastfeeding with Postpartum Depression" href="http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/Article/Breastfeeding-with-Postpartum-Depression.aspx">http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/Article/Breastfeeding-with-Postpartum-Depression.aspx</a>

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If you have PMS - you are more likely to suffer from PPMD!  Be prepared!

<a title="Posptartum Mood Disorder - Progesterone" href="http://www.womentowomen.com/depressionanxietyandmood/postpartumdepression.aspx">http://www.womentowomen.com/depressionanxietyandmood/postpartumdepression.aspx</a>

Here's what Women to Women have to say about Postpartum Mood Disorder:

"<strong>Natural progesterone has a known effect on the GABA receptors in the brain — the same receptors that opiate drugs (narcotics) bind to.</strong> I will say that this protocol is controversial, so many conventional practitioners may be unwilling to try it. We and others, however, regularly observe improvement in these women’s depression and anxiety, and although there have been no large trials to date that prove its efficacy, we have used this protocol to good effect many times for many years."

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Why are conventional practitioners unwilling to use it? Yet they are willing to prescribe antidepressants that they KNOW will give you side effects and get into breast milk.  They are afraid and uninformed.  They have heard of the 2002 study which found synthetic hormones posed a cancer risk and they have not looked any further.

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PMS Treatment Clinic - Natural Progesterone can Prevent Postpartum Depression if given right after birth

<a title="PMS Treatment Clinic" href="http://www.pmstreatmentclinic.com/services.html" target="_blank">http://www.pmstreatmentclinic.com/services.html</a>

National Institute of Health -

Some women may be more suseptible to the changes in hormone levels postpartum:

<a title="NIH - Some women may be more sensitive to the drop in hormone levels postpartum" href="http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/participate/healthyvolunteers/newsletter_0102.shtml" target="_blank">http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/participate/healthyvolunteers/newsletter_0102.shtml</a>