Mastitis

Takes about three days for the antibiotics to really start clearing it. It’s awful just try to rest up where you can and make sure you’re wearing a very supportive nursing bra x

Mine didn’t get bad to need antibiotics but I kept feeding and would massage the area. Then have hot towels on my boobs. It helped a lot. Took about a week and a half for the red to go away.

@Kerri thank you. Did you experience a supply drop during and did it come back after? I’m really worried I went from producing 4-5 oz to only 1.5-2 oz

I went through it when my baby was about 2 months old. I took the meds and cried through feedings. The thing that worked best for me was cool cabbage leaves. Sounds crazy but just one time made a huge difference. A head of cabbage is pretty cheap. Put one in your bra, it helps a ton with pain and inflammation. Learned this from a nurse while at the hospital.

@Liz Yes my supply dropped as my daughter wasn’t feeding as much because the antibiotics I was taking made her sick a few times. Once i’d finished them she did start feeding more. Plus by about day three i’d got her into a routine when she was feeding in between me taking them so there was less of the antibiotic in my system. Made it hard though as i was on them 4 times a day for 7 days and had to take them two hours after eating so fitting it all in was hard work xx