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I heard from a mom who has experienced an alarming situation with large blood clots in her milk. Baby is five months; mom nursed a previous baby for 14 months. Mom started seeing blood in her milk while pumping about a week ago (baby has been fine, continues to nurse at the breast/take expressed milk), the expressed milk had more and more blood in it until she expressed two large clots yesterday (about the size of a golf ball—I have seen photos and could forward them). She says that they were not painful to express but she has had stinging inside that breast. After passing the clots she pumped clumpy milk mixed with blood once, then pink milk, and now her milk is back to normal but the “radiating stinging” persists from inside the breast. She has had an ultrasound and mammogram that were normal…and is having an MRI in two weeks. She is now on antibiotics as per her PCP on the theory that the clots could be from mastitis, though mom has had mastitis before and doesn’t have any of the usual symptoms. Of course mom is concerned and wondering if anyone has run across a situation like this before? 

Many thanks,
Sarah Bedford IBCLC, LLLL
Charlottesville, VA
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