Hi ladies,

I have been breastfeeding my little one for almost 4 months now ...yay!!! and i have always had issues with my left breast, it more often then not hurts and is hot and just not the same as the right breast

Anyway yesterday afternoon i went off to express like i always do and what i saw frightened the living pants outta me....the breast pump was chock a block full of blood, it wasn't working properly because there was to much congeled(sp?) blood in there. I paniced- well who wouldn't when they have large amounts of blood coming out of there breasts so i rang the Dr's got seen straight away and was told i have mastitis and needed to go onto antibiotics and i also needed to get rid of this blood so i came home and expressed again in total i got 160mls of blood, nothing else just straight blood so they sent some of the blood away for testing. I am worried has anyone else ever had this issue and if so how long did it last ? Oh and did you also have severe stomach cramping?

Sorry if this is all over the place i'm still worried about this so any info would be greatly appreciated.

Obviously i am not feeding bubby from this breast at the moment, i'm just expressing and hoping for the best.