We can google at work how exciting is that, it made the nights so much better and more interesting. We thought they had blocked it but it worked last week. They blocked games and most fun things on the computer because I guess they think you will play games instead of looking after patients. Nursing admin have always assumed that nurses are slack and do not work unless they are on our backs all the time. I've found the people who treat you like this are themselves the most slack ones. If some people put half the energy they use getting out of work into doing it would be fairer and easier for everyone. Getting things sorted with patients before they become disasters is so much better. Lots of nurses love disasters thru. sad.
When I was training a sister said to me that lady is going to arrest, I said move her to coronary care then, oh she said so she did it and the arrest happened there where they were all prepared for it instead of a big mess on the ward with only 2 of us. It pisses me off the way people like drama. I once said to a doctor that i didnt know how a sister we knew could work in kids cancer for years he said she likes it all that grief. I call them the bottom feeders.
Anyway back to my googling at night. We had a girl breastfeeding who had very sore nipples from the first feed. Same history with the first baby. She feed the first baby till they bleed and finally gave up when she couldnt take the pain anymore. Now this is a different picture than mums who have very sensitive nipples, when you ask them can they stand anyone touching their nipples they say they cant. That is not about damage to the nipple and these girls often feed well with a nipple shield.
The usual sore nipples you see are around the 2-3 day mark and are a gradual onset.
My girl had almost instantly sore nipples from the first feed which is quite different. Nursing mothers theorizes that thrush in the ducts may cause this problem and that treating the nipples and the babies mouth may get rid of it so thats what I was investigating on google. I didnt look up the scientific papers on it but the mothers stories on different web sites. I suspect that no one has done any studies thru you could try to culture the breast milk of these mums and see if you came up with thrush, good research project someone.
Anyway she is going to try some thrush treatment, I told her my google search and she was going to tell me how it went. Nobody stays in hospital long enough for there to be any outcomes so unless she writes us a card I"ll never know. I"ll do my breatfeeding, lack of support rant another time back to the garden.