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[phankao]

SAHM_TAN:

Thank you buds and phankao.


The fever is gone. Stayed in bed on Sat and Sun and kept massaging the most painful area. Now the right side is more aching than pain, so I think it's more or less ok.

Just be aware of it ever happening. If so, then down lots of garlic (pearls? high-dosage helps). And lots of fluids. Treat like flu symptoms.

[SAHM_TAN]

phankao:

SAHM_TAN:

Thank you buds and phankao.


The fever is gone. Stayed in bed on Sat and Sun and kept massaging the most painful area. Now the right side is more aching than pain, so I think it's more or less ok.

Just be aware of it ever happening. If so, then down lots of garlic (pearls? high-dosage helps). And lots of fluids. Treat like flu symptoms.

Thanks. I will remember.

[buds]

Hot compress eased my pain by a lot! But tts just me but you can try. Somehow it helped with the blocked ducts as well. Because I was on medication, I couldn't bf for that few days. So I found relief in the hot compress (small towel soaked in hot water) prior to expression (which I discarded). During hot showers I massaged the affected area as well. Finally, I took up the old wives' tale on the cabbages. It's no tale wor. It works! Put a few to cup the affected one inside your nursing bra (if you're wearing a bra at all that is.. cos at home mah!) My fever slowly subsided, together with the painful to the touch feeling and the cabbage leaves sorta softened. When I wanted to replace the cabbage leaves, milk was slowly dripping from the nips. Yes, my pain was from both girls! I was up and bouncing about again before the end of the week! Easy part was, because I was then a FTWM.. DD1 was on two feeds EBM & alternated with one feed of FM. DD1 easily adapted to both bottle feeding and the taste of formula, thanks to that arrangement. Easier on my Mumsie too, cos the baby didn't fret.


Take care, SAHM_TAN.. :hugs: Hope your girl will be fine soon.

PS. Your DD ok without boobie feed a few days? Any alternatives for her?

[SAHM_TAN]

Thanks buds. I was rather sleepy over the wkends, so only manage to massage the affected areas.


Bb is ok. She’s basically eating and drinking whatever that the older ones are having but she likes to latch on.

I was on the very plain Panadol so she will come in the room for latch-on visit whenever I’m awake. I tried to limit her to the left side.

[peapot]

Hi mummies, I bought a enfa mum milk powder on Friday. Not open at all, now I have no use for it. It’s vanilla flavour and I would like to give it away to mummies who will benefit from it. Please let me know who is keen.

[peapot]

It will be a pity to throw it away since I just bought it. Pls don’t feel shy about it and ASK me for the powder.

[Mychildren]

Hello! Hello peapot, though I breastfeeding but I don’t need. Thank You!:)

[phankao]

buds:

PS. Your DD ok without boobie feed a few days? Any alternatives for her?

Actually even if you are on medication, there is no necessity to stop direct breastfeeding. What if we are talking about an infant and not a toddler here, right?

Remember that there is always a breastfeeding-friendly alternative for medication. If the doc is adamant that there is no such medication, then get help from a Lactation Consultant.

Online - Dr Jack Newman has written articles on this too.
http://www.breastfeedinginc.ca/content.php?pagename=drjack

You can find him on Facebook too - but he says for personal problems, he prefers mothers write privately to him.

[buds]

Yes phankao. There are medications that are not exactly breasfeeding-safe and then there are those that are. The medication i took was for stronger medication (for quicker recovery) and i opted for that, since that was the only one available at the clinic that day (they cud order in the safe ones) but i didn’t want to wait. DD was almost 2mths old then. I had to go back to work soon so waiting wasn’t exactly a choice i wanted to make (to delay returning to work). Furthermore back then being a first time mom the pain plus the almost 40 degrees fever was honestly unbearable. I had delirious sleep days and nites that few days and even given a sponge bath i didn’t remember getting in that state. It was horrible. I made a personal choice to go for the meds and was given full knowledge that i was not to bf for just a few days.

[phankao]

buds:

Yes phankao. There are medications that are not exactly breasfeeding-safe and then there are those that are. The medication i took was for stronger medication (for quicker recovery) and i opted for that, since that was the only one available at the clinic that day (they cud order in the safe ones) but i didn't want to wait. DD was almost 2mths old then. I had to go back to work soon so waiting wasn't exactly a choice i wanted to make (to delay returning to work). Furthermore back then being a first time mom the pain plus the almost 40 degrees fever was honestly unbearable. I had delirious sleep days and nites that few days and even given a sponge bath i didn't remember getting in that state. It was horrible. I made a personal choice to go for the meds and was given full knowledge that i was not to bf for just a few days.

Some of us don't have that option lah. Out of 3 breastfed children, only 1 accepted the bottle. Actually the direct breastfeeding helps heal the mother faster too bc of the frequent flow thru the ducts. Fresh milk made as the baby suckles and flows thru the duct helps heal.