Thrush think I am going to stop

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Hi I have a 2 week old baby, and have had latch checked and rechecked, I have had thrush possibly since the beginning, as had antibiotics the week before birth. Pain excruciating since day 5, think continual stabbing and twisting pain deep down in my breast.

Have daktarin for me, flucanazole x2 @50mg and baby has Nystatin.

Pain still going on. This is DD3, I expressed for 6 months with DD1, bf for 9.5 months with DD2, but am currently feeding off one side and expressing the other (and bottle feeding etc, anything really). DH is going away for work 22 July, and my sister coming to help, but I don't think the current situation should continue at this time. I have missed so much of feeding and holding her due to expressing, I did not bond with DD1 due to feeding issues (I expressed and DH fed), I think I should just stop now, DH has a high flying job and is getting by on minimal sleep, and this will impact on performance soon. I need to be able to give the other DDs time too. It's all too much.

Am expressing right now, whilst DH feeds DD3.

Thrush is a bugger to get diagnosed and a bugger to get rid of in my experience. That said, my 10 week old has had a white coated back of tongue since she was born. She was tongue tied and apparently that can be related as the milk doesn't get thrown to the back of the mouth as effectively so coats the tongue. We've had treatment for thrush and the coating is still there.

Pain free feed on one side yesterday, but not other. I have not gone to a breastfeeding consultant as yet since my nipples were so painful I could not have latched her on in any case.

However I have had breastfeeding help sent out to me by the hospital, in two occasions (she does nothing but support breast feeding mums and she has seen our latch on both sides and said all is fine and from a positioning point of view wondered why she had been sent out to see me.

In terms of doing so much for the first two, and not enough for my third, it must be my hormones but that comment really hurt me. I have been doing all that I can with my third, and I love her to bits. I am still trying to latch her every day, to see what will happen, however we both still have thrush.

I had thrush early on with feeding and it was so excruciating I would cry before and during each feed. I feel for you OP! However this works out you have already done the best possible by giving your little one colostrum. Have you managed to speak with a different doctor, or get hold of the hospital lactation specialist in your area?

It sounds like you've worked damn hard at it already!

Sorry that didn't necessarily come across how I meant it. You've seen to have had quit a lot of support for the hospital already which wasn't all that clear in your previous posts.

It's just so unusual to have thrush (not impossible) so early on that someone like a board certified lactation consultant may be able to get to the root of the problem.

Just because one person has said no to TT doesn't mean that sill can't be the case.

Thrush can also be really difficult to treat and making sure you've washed everything as well as treating both of you at the same time. I don't know if you check the BfN website for the recommended treatment for thrush.

Hi Migril yes I printed out the relevant sheets to show the doctor and she disregarded it. I had a course of antibiotics a week before the birth so this could have caused it.

Pragmatic yes excruciating is the word like knifes stabbing you continually throughout feed then to add insult to injury hurts like hell after for ages. I will follow up tongue tie.

Am waiting to see a different doctor right now.

Showed the doctor the sheet, she prescribed directly off the sheet. It helps that she has seen all three if my girls as babies and she knows me. She even told me to go ahead and get the oral gel over the counter for DD3 she is a total star!

Feel as though I have been given another chance!

That's great new's it's does help when you feel like you've got a GP on your side. I do hope you get it sorted out.

Good luck.

Thank you. I keep latching her a few times a day and will plan to go to a breastfeeding clinic if this carries on just to double check all is well.