I have a mom of a beautifully gaining 6 week old who was just in for her 6
week check up.  After early on struggling with positioning induced sore
nipples, an "ear infection" (doctors disagree) in her 4 day old, antibiotics
for a presumed "to prevent mastitis" in both breasts (it didn't appear that
way to me.....) she is now presenting to me with enjoying breastfeeding, but
"these darn sweats every time I nurse, but also in the middle of the night I
wake up drenched from sweat"  (but not during a nursing at that time.) She
will sweat not only on her arm where the baby's head is   ( we talked about
cotton cloth under his head etc..)  and under her breast, as well as her
whole scalp and back of neck.

This mom was dx'd with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis well before her pregnancy and
had her levels of medication raised during the pregnancy. She just had her
blood work done about a week before I saw her, and had received no phone
call that she needed to have her medication levels adjusted again.

As I read, I learn that sweating is a symptom of hyperthyroidism. Could her
medication be inducing a hyperthyroid condition now that she is not
pregnant?  I recall over the last months, someone posting about how thyroid
screenings can differ in the results, and what would be the question to ask
if the first round of her blood work does show that she is within normal
limits for thyroid?

Can anyone think of another reason for her sweats?  She is being encouraged
to wean by her OB, and she quotes her endocrinologist as saying that it
would be so much easier for her to just bottlefeed, like his wife found it
to be.  She says, "everyone is giving me conflicting suggestions as to
whether I should keep breastfeeding.  I like the nursing, but these darn
sweats..."

 Any suggestions? Thanks!
Karen