hun, it's hard having problems at any stage. You're doing such a fabulous job of feeding Miss M! Totally agree with Jennifer. If you do have thrush DD will need to be treated as well, otherwise it just spreads from her mouth back your nipples, IYKWIM. The shooting pain could well be from thrush.
You sound like you have a brilliant plan hun . Just be really careful in the meantime when handling your nipples that you hands are nice and clean, so as to reduce the chance of introducing any nasties into the cracks.
Let us know how you go at the Dr, and how things progress over the next few days
I didn't end up making an appt today as we had a pretty good night and she slept 8 hours so that gave my nipples a chance to heal. Still have the cracks but they are much better than yesterday. I ended up taking Miss M to the Dr tonight though as she was VERY unsettled and not herself today. Drs diagnosed thrush in her mouth. I had been checking and saw nothing but she said it was right up the back which would have made it hard for me to see. So we have nilstat drops to use!! I'm just glad this hurdle will be dealt with quickly and I can have my happy booby baby back and a happy Mumma to boot! Bring on the next 6 months of breastfeeding!
Sounds like things are sorting themselves out but thought I would add my experiences with thrush as well just in case it helps in any way!
I had cracked and bleeding nipples from two weeks after birth of DD. I used lansinoh which helped for a while but I eventually developed thrush. DD had it in her mouth as well. I used nilstat drops for her and d but who knows)aktarin on my nipples. She hated the nilstat at that age!
The thrush cleared up reasonably quickly. I really didn't want to stop bfing (and actually I felt some pain relief during feeding anyway) so used other methods such as washing my nipples in vinegar (supposedly kills the thrush) making sure to wash it off before DD fed!!
It actually cleared up quicker than I thought it would!
But it has recently come back (I don't know why!!) so I am back on the inner health plus tablets, daktarin for DD's lips (and my nips) and nilstat, the latter which she doesn't seem to mind as much anymore!
This drama is still going on! Crack is slight on the left side but the right side is about 1/3 of my nipple and boy it can hurt. Miss M is still being fussy with feeds but not as bad as she was. So some days are good and others bad. Thinking of calling for help again tomorrow. Dr has put me on ABs as he agreed there was a fair chance of an infection and we're using nilstat for 2 weeks to make sure the thrush has gone. Ahhh the joys!
PS. Female Dr I saw the day after my last post (feeding turned to cr@p overnight) had no idea about breastfeeding and read from a book and told me to rest the nipple and NOT feed from that side and if it doesn't improve then to put Miss M on a bottle. Lovely to see that some Drs have NO basic training in breastfeeding! Very frustrating I must say! Lucky my usual GP is fantastic!
hun, it's hard having problems at any stage. You're doing such a fabulous job of feeding Miss M! Totally agree with Jennifer. If you do have thrush DD will need to be treated as well, otherwise it just spreads from her mouth back your nipples, IYKWIM. The shooting pain could well be from thrush.
. Just be really careful in the meantime when handling your nipples that you hands are nice and clean, so as to reduce the chance of introducing any nasties into the cracks.
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