Miserable

I've been feeling pretty miserable lately. Thauban has been a good baby Alhamdulillah, too good that he sleeps for long hours during the night. You would now think "Wow, then you get to sleep well". Unfortunately, when baby goes that long (6 hours was the longest) without breastfeeding, you can't sleep either because your breasts are hard as rocks. It's painful & exquisitely tender (indescribable), uncomfortable (because you have to be 'aware' of how you sleep so not to compress your breasts and make the milk ducts block up; another painful problem) and you have to wake up to express the excess milk anyway, so sleep still eludes you.

Then that is a precursor to getting poor latching because the breast is hard and not shaped properly. Poor latching means injury= pain= avoiding feeding= more engorgement= more pain. Vicious cycle. I also seem to have some sort of vasospasm (not unlike Raynaud's on the fingers) between feeds which can make me shout out from the sharp shooting electric shock-like pain. It also makes me shiver like I have a fever (but I don't).

I am going to see a lactation consultant. I hope she will have a solution.

Addendum: I have mastitis. Now on antibiotics and aggressive breast care regime.