I gave birth to my son Tuesday 2/19/19 at 7:29pm and the story is quite boring so I won't waste your time. Thursday morning around 1am is when things got weird. The nurse came in with my son and some pain meds. I was waking up quite groggy trying to give her an answer on my pain level. I felt what I thought was phlegm in the back of my mouth. I swallowed. Instantly my uvula swelled to more than double its size, I felt it expand in my mouth. And I started to panic! I'm pointing at my mouth, can't think of the word uvula and I'm saying "the thing that hangs down, it's swollen" My husband and my nurse are just looking at me like I'm crazy. "My throat is gonna close" I'm squeaking these words out over and over, sounding completely ridiculous with this marble in my mouth. Finally the nurse grabs a flashlight and I remember uvula. "My uvula!" I repeat it over and over while she just kinda looks at me. Now, I'm pissed and scared thinking this lady is gonna let me suffocate. She gets the idea and says she'll get a doctor. Apparently the doctor appreciated my concerns cause less than a minute later my room is flooded with doctors. I'm hooked to oxygen and they're paging the on call ENT doctor. They ask about allergies, I have none, they're reviewing everything in my charts to inform the extra doctors who don't know me, open your mouth, say ahhh, can you breathe, yes i can. They give me a benadryl which I'm barely able to swallow. None of the doctors have ever seen this before. They're saying " it's freaky. How weird. I have no idea. It looks like there's been trauma, but how?" and I'm trying to stay calm so my nose stays clear. The ENT arrives, numbs my nose and puts a camera down each side. Nothing else is swollen. She tells the other doctors she's seen this once before and never figured out what it was that time either. They order steroids to start the next morning and shrug, leaving me hooked to oxygen and telling me my short breastfeeding time is over early. By the next afternoon my uvula is only a little bigger than normal and it's over, without an answer. My recovery was freaky....