My baby daughter likes to nipple feed. She is nearly 11 weeks and doesn't want to get out of the habit. Spoke to various medical people and learnt tricks to make her take more breast in but she gags and then slides down to nipple (canny girl). Of course it was very painful at the beginning and it's still painful, a bit less since my poor nipples got used to it but the throbbing pain at latching and afterwards is still very uncomfortable. Tried to get her interested in a bottle of formula (at least one to give some relief in the evening) in the early days and stopped when the milk supply was bigger and when I started again a few days again she made a huge fuss and didn't want the bottle unless forced, which wasn't that nice for us. I expressed my milk and she still wasn't happy. She seems obsessed by breasts! Any tips?
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