Suzie and Faith
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I've been feeling rough for a couple of days and had noticed a red lump on my right boob but I didn't pay any attention to it.
In the middle of last night I couldn't stop shaking with cold - despite it being warm in my room! I then woke up with a fever! I googled my symptoms and it seems to be mastitis.
I hadn't realised I needed to go see the doc (until reading LisaJ's thread). So i'll do that tomorrow.
It's one more of many problems I seem to have had with my boobs and now I just don't want to try any more. First of all she wasn't latching, which made my boobs sore, then I realised it was because I had flat nipples and no matter how hard i tried she just wouldn't stay latched! So i started expressing and bottle-feeding, occasionally topping with formula if I couldn't express enough.
The the bottles were causing her tummy pains.
The nipple shields worked as a latch but the open cuts meant it was agony.
Now the mastitis has set in. I tried her with expressed milk from the sore boob but she doesn't like it! I then found that mastitis can cause the breast milk to taste funny and some babies don't like it.
All day today she has had formula and i've chucked whatever I've expressed and I am probably going to stick to formula now. I am just so fed up with the pain and the expressing. It'd be different if I thought she could ever feed directly from me.
It just feels like one thing after another - at first my stitches hurt like hell, then the bruising was very painful and now I have a fever, headache and general aches from the mastitis!!!!!!!!!!
I'm feeling sorry for myself I know - i'm sure everyone has problems and has had a hard time!
On a plus - I do love being a mummy! Watching her grow and seeing her change every day is amazing and I love the way she looks at me and I see myself in her, it's just amazing!
Ok, ramble over.!
In the middle of last night I couldn't stop shaking with cold - despite it being warm in my room! I then woke up with a fever! I googled my symptoms and it seems to be mastitis.
I hadn't realised I needed to go see the doc (until reading LisaJ's thread). So i'll do that tomorrow.
It's one more of many problems I seem to have had with my boobs and now I just don't want to try any more. First of all she wasn't latching, which made my boobs sore, then I realised it was because I had flat nipples and no matter how hard i tried she just wouldn't stay latched! So i started expressing and bottle-feeding, occasionally topping with formula if I couldn't express enough.
The the bottles were causing her tummy pains.
The nipple shields worked as a latch but the open cuts meant it was agony.
Now the mastitis has set in. I tried her with expressed milk from the sore boob but she doesn't like it! I then found that mastitis can cause the breast milk to taste funny and some babies don't like it.
All day today she has had formula and i've chucked whatever I've expressed and I am probably going to stick to formula now. I am just so fed up with the pain and the expressing. It'd be different if I thought she could ever feed directly from me.
It just feels like one thing after another - at first my stitches hurt like hell, then the bruising was very painful and now I have a fever, headache and general aches from the mastitis!!!!!!!!!!
I'm feeling sorry for myself I know - i'm sure everyone has problems and has had a hard time!
On a plus - I do love being a mummy! Watching her grow and seeing her change every day is amazing and I love the way she looks at me and I see myself in her, it's just amazing!
Ok, ramble over.!