A year ago this week my boob burst

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...and now there is just a little discolouration/scar. You would never know I had had mastitis. this time last year I spent more time than I wanted in Whipps Cross A&E and breast clinic.

It went on for ten weeks, and I was only confident it had properly healed a couple of weeks before my wedding in December.

And... DS is 14 months this week and still has a breastfeed first thing when we wake up in the morning and when we get home from work in the evening.

just my little positive boob story.

That sounds like it was hideous - well done for persevering.

Thanks for sharing it - it's always good to hear positive stories. :)

Aw well done! It was the same time last year that my boob was rotting away, although I gave up breastfeeding after the first hospital stay. Ended up there 4 times! Not to mention the millions of breast clinic appointments. I healed just before Christmas too.

Blimey well done! BFing once they are that old is lovely :)

When you say burst...?

TMI... but you asked...!

I had a yellowish soft bulge an inch way from my nipple, about the size of a 5p, which was alleviated a bit when I fed the baby, but then it just got too much and it popped and seeped out yellow pus/milk cocktail. Actually, I forget the full sequence of events. It may have popped at the site of where the needle had gone in when A&E doc aspirated it a day or so before. but from then on the pop became a fistula and was leaking pus and curdled breastmilk (the stuff that was backed up behind the blocked duct) for all those weeks. I suppose until the duct died and stopped bothering to produce milk.

anyway, all is well now! was very glad I kept feeding through it, I think it helped clear it up quicker than otherwise. It was gross through, keeping the yuk away from the good milk.

Oh my goodness, sounds like HEAVEN! [weirdo pus freak alert]

Oh my God! Well done for persevering through that - I'm sure you're right that keeping feeding cleared it all up quicker than if you'd stopped.