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@Cherrybee: I am so so so glad you are feeling better!! Definitely sounds like your mastitis was horrible (red bowling ball, OUCH!!) and on both sides? oh my goodness. I can't imagine how sick you must have been. I also had retained placenta or membrane or something... thankfully I didn't get ill from it, but about 2 weeks postpartum (and on Christmas Day, no less!) I felt something coming out of me and it was tissue. I freaked out and we went in to the ER. After it was pulled out we waited like 5 hours for an ultrasound to make sure I didn't have anything left (which the doctors, here in america, thought they had all gotten after delivery as well... placenta broke up during delivery and they pushed on my abdomen SO much, I was crying from the pain) because there was only 1 tech in the whole hospital due to the holiday. After that I went through recovery all over again because the membrane that was pulled out was basically a bandaid and the wounds had opened up again... I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. I got some drugs to speed up the contraction of my uterus (and they did this for me again with the second baby because of what had happened with the first).

Anyway. Long story short, I am SO SORRY you are going through all of this so quickly after birth...!!! Get well soon and quick... so glad to hear you have such great support.