The woman may have a galactocele. There will be disagreement from some of y'all out there, but a low dose daily antibiotic may work for her. I suggested it to one of my friends a few years ago, her MD prescribed, and it worked. She had multiple mastitis with 2 previous babies and was dreading the same with her third. My 2 older kids had multiple, multiple ear infections. The pedi suggested a low dose daily chewable antibiotic, they were on it for about 3 months, and it worked. The next thing would have been tubes. Our dear oldest child was adopted and bottle fed abm, just before we got him I was about to begin breast pumping but found out I was pregnant. After multiple miscarriages (I have lost count unless I think real hard), the plan was to put me on steroids. So I didn't want to possibly cause any uterine stimulation with the breast stimulation. My 2 oldest are 8 months apart and have been blessings. My son finally held his bottle himself at 14 months. He is 11 now. His bite and teeth are terrible, he is asking for braces. If I had known then what I know now about the superiority of human milk and also the action of breastfeeding I would have nursed him when our daughter was born. (Nobody even suggested it) We did hold him closely all the time. He says I can still hug him on holidays and week ends! He's at the age when his mom hugging him becomes embarrassing. Didn't mean for this to get so long! Sorry. Susan in Minnesota rn ibclc *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html