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I am 6 days post-partum.
On Saturday at 4am, I was awoken with chills. I was shaking for about 20 minutes and they subsided. I checked my temperature when I woke up around 7am, and it was 100.6F. I had no breast pain to speak of at the time.
I called, and my doctor had me go be seen. They checked the healing on my stitches and tear, which looked fine. My bleeding isn't excessive, and doesn't have any funny smells. They pulled blood work to check my white blood cell count to see if there was a hint of infection that they couldn't physically see, but everything came back great. I was also checked for a UTI and there was no bacteria present.
I was finally told just to keep up with ibuprofen. Well, the next day (today, Sunday), my breasts started to feel very hot. They are NOT overly engorged and only a little painful (more from my dd2's bad latch). They are just very hot and with that comes the 100.6 fever and just feeling kind of off.
I spoke again with my doctor, who told me to push fluids and continue taking ibuprofen (which brings my fever down 100% and removes the heat and mild pain from my breasts).
She mentioned it's possible that I might have a low-grade fever from my milk coming in (not mastitis). Is this something anyone has heard of before? It just seems strange to have a low grade fever because of milk coming in. I am also SUPER sweaty all day, like I'm sweating out the pregnancy LOL!
Any of this sound normal? Should I push for another appointment? My breasts LOOK and FEEL pretty much fine, other than being hot when they get fuller, but my DD has been good at emptying them. I can't feel any plugged ducts, and they feel nice and squishy after she eats.
Just hate wondering what this stupid fever is from!
Thanks! xx
On Saturday at 4am, I was awoken with chills. I was shaking for about 20 minutes and they subsided. I checked my temperature when I woke up around 7am, and it was 100.6F. I had no breast pain to speak of at the time.
I called, and my doctor had me go be seen. They checked the healing on my stitches and tear, which looked fine. My bleeding isn't excessive, and doesn't have any funny smells. They pulled blood work to check my white blood cell count to see if there was a hint of infection that they couldn't physically see, but everything came back great. I was also checked for a UTI and there was no bacteria present.
I was finally told just to keep up with ibuprofen. Well, the next day (today, Sunday), my breasts started to feel very hot. They are NOT overly engorged and only a little painful (more from my dd2's bad latch). They are just very hot and with that comes the 100.6 fever and just feeling kind of off.
I spoke again with my doctor, who told me to push fluids and continue taking ibuprofen (which brings my fever down 100% and removes the heat and mild pain from my breasts).
She mentioned it's possible that I might have a low-grade fever from my milk coming in (not mastitis). Is this something anyone has heard of before? It just seems strange to have a low grade fever because of milk coming in. I am also SUPER sweaty all day, like I'm sweating out the pregnancy LOL!
Any of this sound normal? Should I push for another appointment? My breasts LOOK and FEEL pretty much fine, other than being hot when they get fuller, but my DD has been good at emptying them. I can't feel any plugged ducts, and they feel nice and squishy after she eats.
Just hate wondering what this stupid fever is from!
Thanks! xx
