Now that Lulu is 6 months old, I feel like I’m old hat at breastfeeding and, considering the number of issues I have had to deal with along the way, I have nifty insight on some of the things that can come up.
To date, I’ve dealt with (in order of appearance!): severe engorgement, thrush / yeast infection, poor latch resulting in using nipple shield, mastitis, reynaud’s / vasospasms, milk bleb / milk blister / blocked nipple pore. While each of these events has been painful, the milk bleb is the only one that made me consider abandoning breastfeeding.
