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Q: Pneumonia
asked by: megums1211 on April 28th, 2007
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I have pneumonia, but I am exclusively breastfeeding and Brianne won't take a bottle... She hasn't eaten in like 8 hours... the doctor told me not to feed her from the breast until I talk to her doc... but she won't eat... The e-r gave me steri masks to cover my face so I can hold her but I desperately bneed to feed her... what do I do? It's 3:30 in the morning here and I can't call her doc...
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Bridget
replied on April 28th, 2007
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you probably could've called her doctor. my son was sick in the middle of the night once and we called his answering service and they had the on-call doctor call us back (and he sounded like he'd just woken up).

how's she doing now? i hope you've gotten some help by now! i'd think that if she got hungry enough she'd take the bottle, but i really don't know.

i hope you get better soon!
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megums1211
replied on April 29th, 2007
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well, I ended up just calling her answering service and they connected me to her so I told her what was going on (she sounded like she just woke up too. lol) and she said that the very small chance of her getting my infection through the milk did not outweigh the severity of dehydration so she told to wear my mask (they gave me one at the e-r)wash my hands and then purell them and to go ahead and feed her. Things are better now. My fever went down to about 99.5 and she's happy at the breast again Smile man, pneumonia is one nasty b*tch! My fever was up at 102.7 at one point and my heart rate accelerated to 157 bpm!!!
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