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The woman and her infant were discharged from the hospital five days after the birth. The infant was breastfed, but the woman experienced recurrent episodes of mastitis that were managed with oral antibiotics, and intravenous antibiotics during two hospital admissions. Eight weeks after birth she commenced weaning the infant. 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