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Hello all. It has been a long time since I have posted. I am a hospital
based IBCLC working with both inpatient and outpatient moms and babes. I
have a mom who has been having some nipple pain that we can't seem to fix.
The baby is now about 6 weeks old and the pain has been present since
birth. The nipple that is causing her problems is always inflammed on one
side and the tissue on this side looks like a raspberry, raised and bumpy.
It looks like this all the time and never changes. Mom reports that it did
not look like this before the baby was born. This is her second baby, she
had no problems breastfeeding ehr first baby. I have seen her several times
to work on the latch and while the nipple used to come out of the baby's
mouth compressed on the bottom and pointed on the top, it no longer does
so. At the end of the feed now, the nipple is round and erect which makes
me believe we have corrected the latch problem...but why the pain and the
continued inflamation? When the baby was about 2 weeks old, mom had pain
in the same side of the breast as the inflammed tissue on the nipple. She
had no other symptoms of mastitis, no fever or redness, but she about went
through the roof when I touched her breast. Her OB put her on an
antibiotic and the pain went away.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Beth Seidel, IBCLC
Pekin Hospital, Pekin, IL
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