Problems After Delivery Of Your Baby: Check Your Symptoms
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You have answered Yes to:Are you having problems breast-feeding?
See significance of breast-feeding problems if you need information to help you answer the questions below.
Review health risks that may increase the seriousness of your symptoms.
| Note: | You can safely continue breast-feeding your baby or pumping breast milk to feed your baby while you seek care. You can try using a warm, wet washcloth over the affected breast for about 15 minutes to help your symptoms. Try this at least 3 times a day. Massaging the affected breast may also help. |
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Call your health professional immediately if you answer "Yes" to the following question.
- Yes
Is your baby having trouble latching 
on to your breast to feed?
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Call your health professional today if you answer "Yes" to any of the following questions.
- Yes
- Yes
Do you have sore, red or very pink nipples, sometimes with stabbing or burning breast pain during or between feedings?
Do you have a hard lump that does not go away after you breast-feed?
If you have answered "No" to the above questions, go back to Check Your Symptoms and continue to answer the questions to evaluate your symptoms.
| Last updated: | August 06, 2008 |
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| Author: | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Reviewed By: | Sarah Marshall, MD - Family Medicine, Deborah A. Penava, BA, MD, FRCSC, MPH - Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer |
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