Latch issues on one side?

[japhrimel]

I'm having issues with DD (7 weeks) chewing my right nipple and wondered if anyone had any suggestions.

She either won't open her mouth very wide when on that side, or I think she's latched on fine but then she slips and just has the nipple in her mouth, or she's squirming with my nipple tightly in her mouth so I get yanked around. That side is now so sore that it hurts to put her on no matter what I do.

On the left she seems fine, a bit wriggly at times but not too bad.

She used to have issues with that side when she was tiny, which I put down to the nipple being very slightly larger, but we were doing fine.

She has the odd bottle of ebm still so I wondered about more nipple confusion but I don't get why that would be a one-sided issue???

Because it hurts, I'm now feeding her more from the left so I'm worried about supply on the right, especially as there's always been a bit less milk that side. I'm trying to express the right but it's a struggle when I'm home alone with her.

Any ideas?

FWIW I've been to a BfN clinic about this and they said just persevere with getting her latched on well. But I don't get why feeding on the left is easy and comfortable whilst the right is a painful struggle with us both getting frustrated!

Oh and we're just over thrush so I asked the GP if it could still be that, but we don't understand why thrush would be in one breast only (DD and both nipples look fine, thrush wise).

I have lopsided breasts and nipples (size, flat/inverted) and I have to constantly pull at dd's chin to get her to open wider on the left though she is absolutely fine on the right (think because she has to work harder on right to keep nipple out). she is getting better at keeping it open, I'm just persevering with pulling her chin down with my thumb.

I take her off when she wriggles, which she tends to only do when she is pooing or at the end when has had enough food and is just sucking for comfort/greed and making herself windy/sick.

Hiya! I had issues with this for the first 8-10 weeks. (Still have some issues = LO is "less good" at taking that boob when we're away from our home setup.)

What worked for me was nursing rugby hold on that side, I couldn't nurse her cradle or cross-cradle for a long time and suddenly it just clicked! :)

For me it was all about nipple size/flatness (smaller, in this case), and working with "the angle of the dangle". :o