Hi,
My daughter is now 5+3 weeks old and on Wednesday I took her to the doctors where she was diagnosed with thrush in her mouth and I was diagnosed with it on my nipples. We've had quite a difficult time with breastfeeding due to delayed milk coming in (c-section) and then positioning problems causing nipple pain etc etc.
We were finally making progress and the pain was finally starting to subside before this new setback.
On Tuesday the pain was so bad I was streaming with tears, baby was also fussing to latch and I had to stop breastfeeding and started to express and feed (and formula where I didn't have enough expressed), she's been used to the combination of breastfeeding, expressed breast milk feeding and formula feeding since birth due to all the difficulties we had.
Anyway, I thought to try and get rid of the infection quicker (and to try and get rid of my nipple pain) that I'd stop breastfeeding and just express feed and formula feed where needed.
I haven't fed her from the breast since Tuesday and it's now Friday night. Did anyone else have a break like this with a thrush case? Did it cause problems for you to get baby back on the breast? I definitely want to go back to breastfeeding (and expressing to give myself the option of a break) but I'm terrified of the pain and I'm terrified that she might not go back on the breast if I leave it any longer. I really really want to get rid of this as soon as possible.
Any tips/advice from others who have gone through this would be really appreciated! I don't want this to ruin the weeks of hard work I've gone through to get to the point of where I almost had it sussed!