I've worked with one other mother with a breast reduction and she did not
report what this woman is telling me.

This woman gave birth Friday  morning 12:22 am to a 7' 9" baby girl.  Even at
initial latch-on this mother felt pain in her breast, not nipple pain.   She
told the nurses she felt pain, but I think they assumed is was nipple pain.
She is still experiencing pain in her breast every time she latches the baby
on.  She has now developed some yellow blisters on her nipples and some nipple
soreness.  All this info is via the telephone.  I was not at work when she was
there.  She has taken three Advil tablets at a time but felt no relief from
this pain since trying the Advil.  Except for some "randomly found hard spots"
on her breasts, her breasts feel soft.

When I questioned her she reported that she noticed one of her nipples turns
entirely white, the other more on the tip.  She has noticed the nipple pain
stepping out of a shower so perhaps some Raynaud's Phenomenon is present.
But, both this nipple pain, and some from uterine contractions while suckling,
pale in comparison to the breast pain she feels.  When I described the
shooting pains of yeast (to try to differentiate the pain she was feeling and
get her to describe it more precisely) she did say it felt like that -- a
shooting pain, but that her whole breast hurts.  But it has been present from
the very first latch and every one thereafter.

She is dreading the baby wanting to nurse.  The baby nurses every hour or so
and stays on a long time. Her milk is a watery white at this stage.  Has on
anyone had any experience like this with a woman with a reduction?  Her
incision scars: circling each areola; from the base of the areola down the
middle of her breast to the chest wall; and an arc under the breast where it
joins the chest wall.  I guess kind of like an anchor in shape.

Mardrey Swenson in New Hampshire, USA
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