Hi all,
So I had my beautiful boy, delivered safe and healthy,
by emergency c-section on 5 May. He is now nearly 6 weeks old and breastfeeding is going well.
I have been on a long term dose of maintenance Augmentin for the whole pregnancy to date due to fistulae. I checked previously with the obstetrician about breastfeeding and they said this was safe.
Albert has had severe, and I mean severe, nappy rash most of the time for his whole 6 weeks. Every time we mentioned it or showed a midwife or health visitor they simply told us to air his bottom and put on barrier creams.
Yesterday I saw a different health visitor and she took one look and said it was very sore and that it was thrush and I needed to get thrush cream (Canesten) straight away. When she learnt he had been this way for 6 weeks, I was made to feel like a bad mother and cried my eyes out when I got home.
I am furious no one picked this up before but also obviously concerned that this is due to antibiotics in my milk. Canesten will hopefully heal the thrush in a few days but what the heck do I do about the antibiotics if they are the cause as I am pretty reliant on them now?
So I had my beautiful boy, delivered safe and healthy,
by emergency c-section on 5 May. He is now nearly 6 weeks old and breastfeeding is going well.
I have been on a long term dose of maintenance Augmentin for the whole pregnancy to date due to fistulae. I checked previously with the obstetrician about breastfeeding and they said this was safe.
Albert has had severe, and I mean severe, nappy rash most of the time for his whole 6 weeks. Every time we mentioned it or showed a midwife or health visitor they simply told us to air his bottom and put on barrier creams.
Yesterday I saw a different health visitor and she took one look and said it was very sore and that it was thrush and I needed to get thrush cream (Canesten) straight away. When she learnt he had been this way for 6 weeks, I was made to feel like a bad mother and cried my eyes out when I got home.
I am furious no one picked this up before but also obviously concerned that this is due to antibiotics in my milk. Canesten will hopefully heal the thrush in a few days but what the heck do I do about the antibiotics if they are the cause as I am pretty reliant on them now?
