Well, what a couple of weeks this has been. THings were getting much easier with feeding the juniors and they had gone to 6 feeds a day, they were sleeping longer stretches at night and I was tandeming them on my ownsome!
THEN....I got a milk blister, holy jesus it hurt so much that that booby was out of commission until the following evening when i popped it, heated it etc etc.
The next day at my 6 week check up all was fine I was breast feeding again and they were happy weight gaining little monsters.
THEN I got thrush of the nipples.
(drum roll) They were feeling a bit crispy and worn out - much like how I feel all over these days and I got joe to latch on and promptly started to pass out in pain.....the symptoms are horrible and very very painful, all of the innards of my boobs had shooting stabbing pains, the nipple itself felt clamped and turned white and then burnt for hours - it was impossible to feed them on the breast. I can take pain but this shot thru my skull and curled my toes the wrong way.
AJ was fast to diagnose thrush (i had no idea, i thought it was a bad latch) and once i read the symptoms i realised it was a nasty case. Helen has been quite badly affected and will not feed at all now on my breast - she fusses and cries and pulls away and will not, even if really hungry feed on my breast. I cannot even wear tops or cuddle them as the slightest brush is too painful. Poor things have to look at me from the bouncy chair when they actually want a cuddle form Mum :-( boohoo. Self pity moment.
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