relearning latch

[LeggyBlondeNE]

After a long chat with a La Leche lady this weekend, it's clear my 18-day-old has been latching badly since brth - partly due to how I was shown to latch her when she was born ('bullseye' method which means she takes mipple and little more, although that's partly becuse that's a mouthful in itself with me!)

I've been trying to hold her and guide her into the good 'asymmetric' latch like in the ante-ntala guide pictures, but she's a bit resistant and will often pull back and reposition as she prefers. This is made worse as she's cluster feeding a lot atm.

Her growth is poor so am v keen to sort this out and can't see our local NHS BF consultant yet. Anyone managed to retrain their babies?

Mums with babies who have tongue ties snipped find their baby then has to relearn the latch - so it's definitely possible. :)

I hope you get some responses, I need help with this too! I've been using nipple shields with 12 day old ds as he couldn't latch on at all to start with but I want him to learn to latch on without them

My DS was poorly latched for the first 5 weeks when I went to see a bf counsellor as a last-ditched attempt to bf him. He was completely adjusted and everything was fine. I then went to feed him for 16 months so yes, it is very possible.

Also reading with interest. 18 day old DS also spits out a 'good' latch and positions into a painful one. I'm expressing at the moment and psyching up to latching him on again tomorrow. Hadn't thought to retrain him, was just getting disheartened that he favoured a bad latch.

Good luck,