good news and bad news

Well the good news is that Camille is still sleeping through the night! It has been over a week now since I have last fed her at night. She is sleeping until between 6:30-7. I wish we could make that a little later but I will take what I can get….for now. The bad news is I got Mastitis from it. I had no idea that I could get it this late in the ball game but sure enough I did. I was still feeding her twice a night regularly so I guess cutting that out all of the sudden did the trick. Wednesday night my chest (really my boob but that sounds crude and breast sounds too formal, so chest will be code word for boob) kind of started to hurt. I didn’t put Camille to bed so I thought it was because I missed that feeding so I pumped. It didn’t really help. Thursday it hurt worse. I thought it was thrush because it was starting to hurt when she latched. Late Thursday night the fever came on. I woke up on Friday feeling like complete sh*t. I knew what it had to be. Luckily the day care had an open spot for Camille so I was able to drop her off with Av. There was no way I was going to be able to take care of her. My doctor called in some meds for me (thank goodness they didn’t make me come in to be seen) and off to dream land I went. I spent all day sleeping. I had not done that in ages. Mastitis is not fun. I had no idea how not fun it was. Between the fever, aches, chills and burning in your chest it makes it really hard to do just about anything, including sleep. Thankfully my friend Tylenol PM came to my rescue. By Saturday the fever was gone but my chest did continue to hurt all weekend. I guess I was just so excited to sleep all night getting up to pump to wean properly never even cross my mind. I will know for next time (if there is a next time).