Hello, Nancy.
       I have a few thoughts, though I don't know if any of them will fit
this situation or be really helpful.  From the mom's description, it seems that
her 2 mo old baby refused to nurse on the left breast during the worst of the
infection, but now is willing to come to breast again.  I am wondering if
perhaps baby is willing to come to breast (maybe milk doesn't taste quite so salty
now) *but* since there isn't much milk there, baby gets the initial letdown
amount, and then sort of "hangs out" at breast without doing a lot of deep,
jaw-dropping sucking, just waiting for mom to decide to switch breasts?  I have
seen babies do this in other situations where they couldn't get much milk from
the breast.  If this might be the case, this mother might want to follow each
nursing with 5 minutes of pumping on the left breast only for 2-3 days, then
see if the milk supply increases in left breast by day 3 or 4.
       If baby is not easily distracted, mother could try massaging the
portion of the breast that feels soft.  Sometimes massage helps to increase supply
over time, especially massaging the lower half of the breast.
       Does this mother do any leaking, perhaps when breasts are at their
most full?  I have worked with a couple of moms who wore breast shells for
inverted nipples when the supply was low.  The constant pressure of the breast shell
on the areola encouraged leaking, and that gradually increased the milk
supply.  She could try wearing a shell only on the left breast, if lopsided-ness
doesn't bother her.
       Dee

Dee Kassing, BS, MLS, IBCLC
Collinsville, Illinois, in central USA

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