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I think I'm getting Mastitis.

Yesterday was a tough day for Tabby, she fussed non stop all day and didn't sleep a wink ALL DAY. She was completely over-wrought and over tired and couldn't get herself to sleep no matter what I did. As I was out all day, there wasn't an awful lot that I could do in terms of keeping it quiet for her.

I'm finding she has a far more complex range of emotions (females!) than the boys ever did as babies. The boys were pretty much happy, or fed up for some specific reason which was generally easily remedied. She, on the other hand, has many in-between states of mind which are not easily explained. Nor so easily dealt with! I think she's so much more alert that she finds it harder to come to terms with her environment, if that makes sense? Less content, more aware, more confused by things surrounding her. She's very agitated if someone else holds her too, she likes it to be me! If she's not with me she's looking for me. If someone else picks her up she frowns and starts to panic.

Anyway - when we got home and got her bathed, she ate and fell asleep by 7.30pm. Then slept for an unheard of 9 hours in a row! She was so tired, poor thing.

The consequence (and point) of all this though, was that when she finally woke at 4am my boobs were completely engorged with milk and very painful. I fed her from the opposite side to her bedtime feed and when I lay down again in bed I couldn't even lie on the left because it hurt as it was so full. With hindsight I should have got up and used the pump but at 4am who wants to get up and do something like that?

At 7am when we got up I fed her on that left side. Again at 8.30 because she was hungry again, again on the left side. Got in the shower and realised it was still very painful and when I got out I used the pump to try to drain it and got 5oz more out (!). And STILL it hurts. So I figure I'm getting Mastits. Phoned the OB and got a prescription of antibiotics sent to the pharmacy because when this fever sets in I want to have them on hand... I won't use them if it doesn't.