Hi Elizabeth and the others on this topic.
I wrote an education piece for ILCA that was online for several years
in the early/mid-2000s, and also some journal articles.  I had them of
floppy disc and not on current USB drives and so I shall have to
search for the information. I shan't have time till the end of the
weekend.

Meantime, given the age of the baby, the suggestion of epidural
headache is a possibility. I had a number of inquiries from IBCLCs in
other countries with mothers of newborns with headaches, because of my
work on headaches. When it is an epidural headache, it will soon pass.
If it is related to the oxytocin surge, this is a different matter,
and there is some variation is experience.  The first case I had,
which I published in JHL as the mother was keen  for her story to be
shared to help others, was related to occasions of over fullness, e.g.
if her baby slept through, and we worked out strategies when she had
to return to part-time work
Another cause of headaches during lactation can be as an early symptom
of mastitis, which I've taught mothers experiencing this to use as an
early warning indication to prevent mastitis developing. (Such
headaches aren't, of course, only related to mastitis but can precede
other infections.)
More llater.

Virginia

Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA
in Ipswich, QLD, Australia

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