I love breastfeeding and my short term goal is to get to 2 years, but these last couple of weeks dd has been a breastfeeding pest. She has started slurping my nipple in at high speed and sucking in a really rough way that makes my nipples scream in pain. If I take her off and try to reposition her she just screams furiously and then ends up feeding for much longer. She has never slept well but I accept night-wakings gracefully as we co-sleep and until now it has never bothered me . Now she wakes up prodding and poking me and then wants both sides and hangs onto to me for an hour+ . I end up getting her off cos I'm in so much pain and she then screams and DH has to settle her. DH does loads to help and does settle her every other time she is up but he does need sleep too. DD has hemiplegic cerebral palsy and is a very emotional little girl with lots of attachment issues. I do not want to stop breastfeeding but am not sure how to get it back to a place where she is breastfeeding nicely and not chewing my nipple like a hungry lion!
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