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litzo27
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Really bad bite
litzo27
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Just as I bragged on the Extended BF thread this week that DS never bit me it happened. Last night he sneezed and clamped down and drew blood - on both sides. It was horribly painful. I didn't even try to nurse off that side this morning or at naptime but at bedtime I tried and it was excruciating - not possible.
So that's a first for me and I'm not sure what to do. Just keep nursing 2-3 times a day off the right side only? Should I try to hand express off the left just to keep the supply up? Anything I can do to try to speed up the healing?
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Re: Really bad bite
That being said, I would think that if nursing and pumping are too painful at the moment then hand expressing would be wise both for supply and engorgement.
Hopefully it will heal enough to nurse again quickly.
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Thanks. Yeah, I put lanolin on it and hand expressed in the shower in the morning (for supply not engorgement - i don't seem to ever get engorged anymore since I nurse so little).
It still hurts a lot. There is no way I can nurse through this pain. It feels 100x worse than anything I had when either of them were newborns, even when they nursed 20 hours a day. Either I've become a wuss or I had really good nurslings
Now I'm freaked out he'll sneeze again.