How did you know your had thrush?
C is almost 10 weeks old. Breastfeeding has been fairly easy for the last few weeks. However over the last few days I have felt a shooting kind of pain in my breasts-- not a severe pain, but like a sharp pins and needles feeling that shoots through the breast, if that makes sense. This happens while nursing and after. The tips of my nipples are quite pink, but I thought that was just because of long nursing sessions and being used as a pacifier. I was very dumb the other day and left the same pair of nursing pads on for 2 days because I'd run out. I don't have any visible cracks on the nipples and haven't been on antibiotics.
C does not have white patches is her mouth, other than her usual milk tongue, but has been clicking/smacking while nursing more than usual, and even makes a throat clearing like clicking noise when not nursing. She has a little diaper rash.
Does that sound like thrush? Whose doctor do I ever go to for a diagnosis, the pediatrician or my midwife or someone else? Anything to be done now?
What did you do to make yours better? My right nipple is quite pink (but not shiny). No itching, no white spots in LOs mouth. I have no idea why it suddenly hurts when she latches on for about 10 seconds. Doesn't hurt after nursing.
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