During a visit to the breastfeeding clinic, the nurse noticed that Amanda1 was not feeling well and arranged for her to see the family doctor right away.

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Oh I forgot about the time I had mastitis. So that’s kind of good to mention because it was actually the nurse at the health unit so yes, not long after she was home from the jaundice I got mastitis. And in my feverish head I thought it was a good idea to walk to the Public Health Unit with her and like in the middle of winter. And so I did because they have a, you know, a drop-in breastfeeding clinic and I, I went there. And right away the public health nurse was like yes you’ve got a really high fever and you have mastitis and that’s why she’s not breastfeeding very well. So I’m going to call your husband and I’m going to call your family doctor and we’re going to get this taken care of. And so she did and my husband picked me up and, and we went straightaway actually to the family doctor. And I don’t know whether they talked or whether it was my doctor but he was like, I mean he realized at that point that I was not coping. And needed more help than I was getting, you know. They wrote a referral for a group called Mothers Helping Mothers which was like a group therapy for moms with postpartum depression. And a social worker came to the house and talked to me. And, you know, sort of as seeing if the group was right for me and, so I went to started going to that group. And that that was really even though they weren’t all moms who’d lost a baby they were still moms who were struggling.

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