I am struggling with bfing my 6 week old DD. For the past week or so she has started to fuss alot when i try to attach her a pulls off alot at the start of a feed. It's worse on the left side, which does sometimes get very full and leaky, and i think the milk might come out quite quickly, so i tried hand expressing before feeding her tonight, but she still pulled off every 10 seconds or so for thefirst few minutes.
The consequence of this is that my nipple is quite damaged and bleeding. there was a small blister on the end which has now popped, leaving an open wound. I am tempted to express from the damaged boob and bottle feed until it heals as i don't want her to get blood in the milk and i don't want it to get worse. I would welcome advice as to whether this is sensible, or should i keep offering the boob and try to improve her latching on?
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bleeding nipple - any solutions?
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YorkshireTeaDrinker · 17/12/2010 21:04
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