Hi all,
Am 38 weeks pg today, felt like death all weekend due to waking up with one boob on fire on Saturday morning that rapidly progressed to fluey symptoms and vomiting. Went to docs and prescribed anti-biotics for pre-natal mastitis (rare apparently)and spent rest of weekend in bed. Feel much better today (apart from bad boob still hot and lumpy) but still so tired and just really down and weepy and don't know why 
Probably just hormonal but been crying at anything today and feeling useless. Scared as been told will now be very prone to mastitis when little one arrives (is my first) and can't bear the thought of being so ill with a newborn.
Also worried about going into hospital now for labour and the care i'll receive- I phoned the maternity ward (on hospital switchboard advice) on Sat evening to speak to a midwife to get advice on relieving boob pain and wanting reassurance that baby was okay with my high temp/ anti-biotics (was too delirious and rough to ask doctor anything coherent when I saw her!). Lady answered the phone and I said "Hello, can I speak to a midwife please?", she simply said "yes" in a dismissive/ very busy way. I tried to explain what the issue with boob was and that I was in a bad way, and she didn't offer any advice or sympathy, or take my details, just interrupted me in an arsey way and said i'd need to phone labour ward. So I phoned labour ward (when I didn't want to as knew they would be very busy, rightly, with delivering babies), and was told they weren't the right people to speak to and to ring clinic the next day. Was left in tears afterwards (probably because I felt like shit, but also because I couldn't find anyone to help me). Now i'm scared of being in hospital if they're so busy/dismissive.
Don't know what i'm trying to say really... just feel really miserable and deflated. Have so been looking forward to baby's arrival but now feel oddly flat. Can't be arsed to get up off sofa and have lost appetite (which is prob due to infection).
Also, does anyone have any advice about to get nursing bras fitted at this late stage? Suspect mastitis brought on by myself for having slighty too tight maternity bras, so am going to try and get fitted again this week. Where is good to go for a proper fitting? Would like a couple of practical, AND a couple of pretty ones if poss- sick of the crappy and now manky grey bras that i've been wearing! Any other tips on how not to get mastitis? Would really appreciate it.
Sorry for the lengthy self-pitying rant