Woe is me.
Exclusively breastfed 5 month old here and I've been feeling pretty unwell since late last night - shivery, a bit achey, scratchy throat and v nauseous. My temperature went up to 38.5 this morning but dropped an hour later and is hovering in the mid to high 37s now. I'm sort of feeling a bit better and then crap again in cycles.
Also I have one v tender boob - it doesn't have any obvious lumps or red marks at all, just feels sort of bruised and sore.
I'm following kellymom advice for now (hot compresses, feeding a lot, resting, ibuprofen, cold compresses between feeds, a bit of hand expressing...) and baby is happy enough (though he was v fussy this morning and it took him ages to settle to a couple of feeds). The expressed milk looks and tastes normal () though possibly slightly less sweet from the sore boob (could be my imagination).
So does this sound like mastitis or the beginnings of? Or could it be something else with coincidental sore boob?
Haven't yet rung out of hours (why always a Saturday!) because I'm fairly certain they'll advise going in to get antibiotics and I'm not feeling very up to getting out of bed (it's a fair old walk and bus ride away) and prefer to avoid antib if I can...
Any thoughts? Wait and see?
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Could this be mastitis? :(
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creamoftomato · 30/08/2014 14:59
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