I was determined with my last child to breastfeed but after two weeks of struggling I became quite ill with a very high temperature and I wasn't on the planet at all. My midwife said that I just had mastitis and that I should carry on feeding through the pain. The pain I was feeling was quite horrendous and I didn't want to walk because any movement of my breasts was complete agony. I tried to explain to my midwife that the pain was far too intense for me to carry on breastfeeding and she said that thousands of women carry on breastfeeding through it. I began to think then that my problem was slightly worse than the midwife had anticipated, but after two courses of antibiotics the pain went but I couldn't regain the breastfeeding. Is it possible that I could have a problem with feeding with this baby? Has anyone else ever thought that their nipples weren't large enough to breastfeed and overcame it?
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Infant feeding
ks ·
26/02/2003 23:16
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