Hi
I'm BF DD who is 4 wks old but we've had a bumpy ride, I haven't ever had a pain free feed and then we got Thrush. Midwives and Health visitors looked at her latching and gave me some help but other times said she was latching on fine but then I watched an NHS breastfeeding video last night and it appears she's not latching right at all? By that I mean she does take some aeorola into her mouth but it definately doesn't go as far back as their diagrams? My DD also fusses a lot and moves her head around and comes off the breast and then re-latches again and there's often a Clicking sound and milk does pour down the side of her mouth sometimes so I know all these indicate she's not latching properly.
Any tips how I do get her to latch properly? My boobs and nipples were tiny in comparison to those in the video I watch and where their aerola appeared soft and easy for the baby to take it in their mouth mine are really hard and wide (their was more mouth shaped). My boobs aren't engorge so it's not like expressing some will help? I tried to get more of the aerola in DD mouth when she was feeding earlier but she kind of gagged and then cried.
DD is putting on weight, she was 7bs 4.5 oz at birth then 5 days later was 6lbs 12 oz and on Tues (so 3 wks since being 6lb 12) she was 8lbs.
Thanks for any advice,
Lucy
Olivia 27 days old
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