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Breasteeding 15 mo twins, sudden severe pain?

Jodi - posted on 05/04/2012 ( 4 moms have responded )

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Please help. I am currently breastfeeding 15 month old twins. Within the last few days, my nipples have gotten pink/red, kind of shiny and it appears they are starting to peel. (and no, they have never been exposed to sunlight to get a sunburn! lol) Nursing my girls is bringing me to tears it hurts sooo bad. This morning I see one nipple has a couple of cracks in the area where the peeling skin is the worst. It hurts the worst when I'm nursing and right after, but they hurt 24/7 regardless.

What is this?! I have had clogged ducts, I have had mastitis, I even had thrush (although I had no symptoms, my daughters showed all the signs). It hurts so bad I'm considering quitting nursing even though I really wanted to make it to 2 years with these 2.

Any ideas what this is, what i can do? My doctor *just* moved and my new doctor knows squat about breastfeeding. :(

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Janice - posted on 05/04/2012

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I'm not sure what the problem might be, but I second the lanolin. It may at least help you out enough to keep going until you get to the root of the problem.

Brianna - posted on 05/04/2012

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This could be thrush. Did you try lanolin? I had the same problem and gently wiped my nipples before and after nursing with a warm washcloth and applied Nystatin ointment and lanolin. Went away after a couple days. Neever did figure out what it was - after extensive searching online I thought it was thrush although I'm not so sure now.

Jodi - posted on 05/04/2012

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I've been bitten in the past, and had bite marks from it, and it's nothing compared to this. They havn't bitten me in MONTHS, so I really don't think it's that.

Gemma - posted on 05/04/2012

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Have your girls bitten you, that could be why you are in so much pain.

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