Can anybody help with useful and realistic advice for fixing nipple confusion? I have a 5 week old and at three weeks old it was suggested that I was not producing enough milk in the night and so I expressed some in the day and fed her a bottle or two at night. It was also suggested that we try a dummy to settle her constant crying. This put a stop to the 7 hours of crying and constant feeding in the night and she showed no signs of nipple confusion for the first week and then things went downhill. She started sucking on me like I was a dummy/bottle and my nipples got very red, sore and cracked (when I say cracked, one is practically split down the middle). I couldn't take the pain any longer so have put her on bottles of expressed milk to try and mend me. I am so lost as to what to do. I would like to get her breastfeeding again but I am struggling to see a way to do it. People say to fix it you need to get off the bottle but it took me 10 minutes to give a 10ml syringe of milk, so as she is eating over 100mls a feed every 1 1/2 -4 hours, how on earth is that practical on top of expressing every 2-3 hours. I am stuck in a cycle of needing to get food into her which doesn't help the confusion issue and my nipples not falling off at her attempts to feed off me. Please, please has anyone got any advice or experienced the same thing that can get us through this stressful time and get my little girl back breastfeeding.
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