Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding has become very painful for me these last couple of days.  It feels like a burning sensation when the baby nurses, and sometimes there are burning pains and shooting pains even when he’s not nursing.  A quick plop of these symptoms into google reveals that I may have a case of breastfeeding thrush/overgrowth of yeast organisms.

I was afraid this would happen because I had had so many antibiotics during labor, my c-section, and two rounds to eradicate mastitis.

My baby does not have any of the white patches in his mouth, so I’m not 100% sure that I have breastfeeding thrush, but it sure feels like it!  I’m going to use yeast infection cream and see if that can’t help.