I have a little boy who is a week old today. I also have another son who I breast fed until he was 2.5 years old.
For the first 5 days or so breast feeding was going so well but over the last 24 hours things have taken a turn for the worse.
My left nipple is in agony, cracked and bleeding, and I gave the fed from it now for 24 hours because the pain is unbearable. I'm using a pump to express from it every 4 hours (and getting good volumes) but using the pump is painful too and triggers more bleeding.
As a result I'm solely feeding from the right breast and so that nipple is now getting really, really sore too because he's feeding all the time. His nighttime cluster feeding has really taken its toll on my right nipple and I feel like giving up. When he latches on to the right side there is pain for about ten seconds but then it stops and the rest of the feed is pretty comfortable.
I'm using Lasinoh on my left nipple but it isn't making any difference. I tried to feed DS in my left side with a nipple shield this morning and it was a complete fail as despite persevering for 5-10 minutes he couldn't extract any milk from the breast.
I have been in tears so many times yesterday and today. It's soul destroying.
There is a weekly BF Support group that runs on Wednesdays and I was going to go this morning but Sod's Law it is closed today.
I'm so upset and in so much pain that I think I'm going to start offering bottles because I can't face another 24 hours of this, let alone longer.
I had a tough first 6 weeks establishing BF with DS1 but absolutely nothing like this. We had taken him for a tongue tie assessment at 6 weeks (my DH has a slight one) and DS did have a minor one but the practitioner didn't think it was severe enough to affect his latch.
I'm thinking of going to get current baby assessed too as I know TT's can be genetic through the male bloodline.
But if he did have tongue tie wouldn't my right nipple be in just as much a state as my left one is?
I don't even know what response I'm after from this post. I just know I'm an exhausted, emotional, tearful wreck and I don't know what to do.
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Writerwannabe83 · 23/08/2017 14:41
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