Quizzes & Puzzles0 min ago
Breastfeeding
Answers
No best answer has yet been selected by cuttinal. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.With exercising, if its your usual routine you can continue while you feel you can, but once you start to get tired, you should slow it down.
Obviously if you suffer and bleeding or pain then stop or if you are advised to by a medical proffessional.
Good luck
You cant breast feed with the rings (or retainers) in. Some women have problems due to the scar tissue, some dont. Some report frequent leakage but to be honest thats normal in non pierced mothers, as is mastitis, blocked milk ducts etc etc. I would suggest that whilst you are breat feeding, if you intend to keep them pierced, switch to barbells, they are much easier to insert and take out, also have a word with your piercer about switching to maybe a different material such as nylon jewelry. Steralisation will also have to be paramount in your daily routine. If you feel this is all too much I would them out some weeks before the baby is born to make sure your nipples have healed properly.
have you ever squeezed your ear holes and seen the white gunk that usually comes out- looks a bit like a blackhead...?
try that and rub it between your fingers - then smell it... its rancid.
also coupled with general germs you have old milk sitting there which could potentially be a bit icky.
i would remove them and give time to close over a bit - they will not heal over, as they are no longer an open wound, so there is nothing to heal to, they will just shrink a bit.
when you finish breatfeeding, a bit of manupulation with a stud will make the hole usable again.
oh, it only happens with earrings that are rarely taken out - sorry, should have made that clear - don't know about piercings elsewhere, but i have a couple of little earrings that i rarely take out, and when i do there is sometimes a tiny spot of this stuff, but even then not always -
i was just making a point that these holes are not easy to keep as germ free as you would need for a baby
it is just sebum - natural and normal, not pus or anything, smells sort of like greasy hair i suppose.
i only discovered it because a mate of mine used to stick a cocktail stick gently into the hole as far as it would go, from the back to the front, and a little white blob would come out, squeezing apparently isn't as ''efficient''...lol
goodsoulette - try that - i'll bet something comes out!