Thanks Stephanie and Amanda for those links... lots of good info there. And thanks to everyone else for the support! Vicki, I totally get the feeling of focus when buying formula... we only buy it once a month or so because of her formula DF, and I can aways feel the world staring at me like "Why aren't you 100% BFing??"
Basically my nipple has a white circle of aereola around it, and the tip of the nipple is white. Other than that, the nipple is bright red. The itching is a fairly recent thing; it is at it's worst during a feed and in the hour afterwards. I do have an itchy, red, flaky raised mark almost like a hickey on each breast near the nipples that I had thought was caused by her gymnastics; she jerks around and bounces quite a bit. Add that to her being quite the little fart machine lately, her discomfort during nursing lately (although that could also be the teething), and the white patches in her mouth lately, and I think we have thrush. She is fussing quite a bit at the beginning of feeds but then does settle in and does rather well, as long as she doesn't get distracted. Because DH is rather ill right now with the same cold we all had (although he seems to have it quite a bit worse, go figure) I am going to wait and go see our dr on Tuesday. Otherwise I will have to take DS with us to any clinic, which would be a bit of a nightmare. I have been air drying my nips between feeds today with a couple of drops of BM on there. I am also sterilizing her pacifiers and bottles before each use; relatively easy, since she just uses a paci for sleeps and only gets one bottle a day.
Ugh ugh ugh.
