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Painful wrists from holding the breast?

shellyloveleeshellylovelee member
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Not sure even how to describe this...I'm a size DD and use the cross cradle position and must hold my breast the entire feeding.  I now have pretty intense pain along the thumb-side part of each wrist and there is also a little nodule sticking out that is extremely tender.  Anyone heard of this?  It's such an ordeal to get an appt with my general practicioner, I'm hoping someone has thoughts on it.

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Re: Painful wrists from holding the breast?

  • hnh1205hnh1205
    I have had sore wrists/forearms from breastfeeding as well.  What I've started doing is rolling up a small towel and wedging it under my breast when he feeds.  It does a good job of holding it up so that I don't have to hold it the whole time.  It really helps!
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  • shellyloveleeshellylovelee member
    Thanks, I'll give that a try! 
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  • jessicacssjessicacss member

    I started having wrist pain, and another mom posted the following link:

    https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00007

    I did the test, and realize that I do have this, waiting to go to the doctor next week. 

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  • shellyloveleeshellylovelee member
    imagejessicacss:

    I started having wrist pain, and another mom posted the following link:

    https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00007

    I did the test, and realize that I do have this, waiting to go to the doctor next week. 

    Oh, wow.  That reads exactly like my issue.  Tendonitis is such a pain since it never really goes away.  I've had extensive treatment on it in my foot but ultimately I have to just live with it as I don't plan to stop walking.  Ugh.

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