Motherhood is a time of happiness and joy in life. While enjoying the blissful joy of motherhood, there are often swollen and painful breasts, sore nipples, broken nipples, and inexplicable fevers that plague many breastfeeding women. Some conditions, such as mastitis or breast abscess, not only affect the milk supply to the baby, but also cause great pain to the mother. Are your breasts okay? What do you need to pay attention to while breastfeeding? 1. Fever is not necessarily mastitis Often breastfeeding mothers complain that they take their temperature at home and it exceeds 390C, and then their temperature drops after an infusion at the local hospital, and then they have a fever again the next day, repeatedly. When we found out after the consultation, it is not to the extent of mastitis, but only due to milk stagnation, and the temperature will return to normal when the accumulated milk is emptied, such cases do not need any treatment. 2, nipple breakage consequences serious nipple breakage during breastfeeding may seem very common, but when the nipple breakage, the pain of the nipple when breastfeeding will make them unbearable, more serious is very easy to cause acute mastitis, breast abscess. The causes of nipple breakage are the mother’s factor and the baby’s factor. The mother’s factor is the poor development of the nipple, such as flattened and sunken nipples, which makes it more difficult for the baby to breastfeed; the baby’s factor is the baby’s biting and cutting pressure on the nipple root. The most important is caused by incorrect breastfeeding. How to prevent nipple breakage? If the infant can hold the nipple but the lips of the mouth cannot wrap around the areola, the thumb may press the infant’s jaw downward continuously while breastfeeding, so that the infant will not bite the nipple when he or she wants to eat the milk and has to open the mouth. If the nipple is broken, breastfeeding can be suspended to keep the nipple at rest and then breastfeeding can be done after the wound has healed. The breast milk on the affected side can be drained manually or by a breast pump to reduce milk stagnation. 3. What is mastitis? Acute mastitis occurs in new mothers. The main manifestation is red, swollen and painful breasts, which may be accompanied by fever. The causes are: (1) milk stagnation; (2) bacterial invasion; bacterial invasion can be through the broken nipple; the main causative agent of acute mastitis is Staphylococcus aureus. When mastitis occurs it must be actively treated formally. Some of the bacteria are drug-resistant strains, and sensitive antibiotics need to be selected based on the drug sensitivity results. In short, any discomfort that occurs during breastfeeding should be actively consulted and, if treatment is needed, treated as early as possible and in a timely manner to avoid affecting breastfeeding and causing your own pain.