I have a few questions and I just need to vent a bit.
My baby is 11 weeks old and gaining fine! I love nursing him and he's a little glutton
so things aren't dismal- I'm just frustrated.
Questions:
1) if I cut out dairy could I use pumped milk in my coffee/tea etc? should I wait a week (or more) before using my own milk to make sure I'm getting rid of the proteins??
2) Should I do a complete elimination diet? or just start with dairy and soy?
3) Topical thrush treatments haven't resolved after 2 months - gentian violet or systemic anti-yeast meds first?? My GP isn't being very helpful.... and my lactation consultant suggests a once off diflucan (which I know won't work) or just continuing with topicals indefinitely.
The Venting:
I've been fighting thrush for almost 2 months. I'm treating his mouth and my nipples after every feed with a miconizole based cream/oral gel (of course there are a few times it gets skipped... but not often). It's fine and I'm pain free until I try to stop/ cut down on treatment and then it's back and horrible within 24 hours. I'm back at school full time (~30 hrs/week) so I'm pumping- so EVERYTHING need to be boiled on a regular basis. Plus since I need to treat after feeding I cannot feed side lying at night.... so I'm tired. And I'm still leaking profusely at night which means I have to sleep on a new towel every night
Plus I'd like to build a freezer stash, which I can't with an active thrush infection.
I HATE pumping, but have to for my little boy. I respond well to the pump - I can get ~3 oz in 5 minutes in-between classes. So again I really shouldn't complain. But it screwed up my classes, they're all back to back and I end up walking in late to class every day, plus it's just not fun. I HATE being away from my baby... but I have to be in school. I pump for 30 mins after our morning feed and then once mid morning. My husband brings Charlie in for lunch every day - I cannot pump in the afternoons because I'm in lab classes and I cannot leave in the middle of procedures. Again, I shouldn't complain since I haven't had a drop in supply (4 weeks so far), and with the lunch nursing session he only gets 2 bottles a day on average.
Charlie is spitting up.... a lot and is very very gassy, and I see differences with my diet. So I'm going to cut out dairy, soy and see how things go. Soy won't be hard, we eat very little processed food and no soy products in regular cooking. But dairy will be hard. If things improve I'll know, if they don't I think the next step is to cut out eggs and wheat too. I'm really dreading the loss of milk in my coffee
which is necessary to survival at this point.
I'm just tired - and I need things to smooth out a bit
My baby is 11 weeks old and gaining fine! I love nursing him and he's a little glutton
so things aren't dismal- I'm just frustrated.Questions:
1) if I cut out dairy could I use pumped milk in my coffee/tea etc? should I wait a week (or more) before using my own milk to make sure I'm getting rid of the proteins??
2) Should I do a complete elimination diet? or just start with dairy and soy?
3) Topical thrush treatments haven't resolved after 2 months - gentian violet or systemic anti-yeast meds first?? My GP isn't being very helpful.... and my lactation consultant suggests a once off diflucan (which I know won't work) or just continuing with topicals indefinitely.
The Venting:
I've been fighting thrush for almost 2 months. I'm treating his mouth and my nipples after every feed with a miconizole based cream/oral gel (of course there are a few times it gets skipped... but not often). It's fine and I'm pain free until I try to stop/ cut down on treatment and then it's back and horrible within 24 hours. I'm back at school full time (~30 hrs/week) so I'm pumping- so EVERYTHING need to be boiled on a regular basis. Plus since I need to treat after feeding I cannot feed side lying at night.... so I'm tired. And I'm still leaking profusely at night which means I have to sleep on a new towel every night
Plus I'd like to build a freezer stash, which I can't with an active thrush infection.I HATE pumping, but have to for my little boy. I respond well to the pump - I can get ~3 oz in 5 minutes in-between classes. So again I really shouldn't complain. But it screwed up my classes, they're all back to back and I end up walking in late to class every day, plus it's just not fun. I HATE being away from my baby... but I have to be in school. I pump for 30 mins after our morning feed and then once mid morning. My husband brings Charlie in for lunch every day - I cannot pump in the afternoons because I'm in lab classes and I cannot leave in the middle of procedures. Again, I shouldn't complain since I haven't had a drop in supply (4 weeks so far), and with the lunch nursing session he only gets 2 bottles a day on average.
Charlie is spitting up.... a lot and is very very gassy, and I see differences with my diet. So I'm going to cut out dairy, soy and see how things go. Soy won't be hard, we eat very little processed food and no soy products in regular cooking. But dairy will be hard. If things improve I'll know, if they don't I think the next step is to cut out eggs and wheat too. I'm really dreading the loss of milk in my coffee
which is necessary to survival at this point.I'm just tired - and I need things to smooth out a bit
