How to correct a toddler who has suddenly got a bad latch?

[DitaVonCheese]

I'm pregnant with DC2 and still bfing toddler DD. I've had a lot of nipple pain over the last couple of months, sometimes real agonising broken glass/hot wires stuff, though it comes and goes. I have been fretting over it being thrush but it hasn't responded to treatment so am assuming it's just a pregnancy thing.

However, I have noticed that DD's lower lip isn't nicely folded back any more when she's latched on and I think her latch overall is a lot more shallow. The last couple of feeds I've instructed her to open her mouth wide before letting her latch on, which has helped quite a lot, but I'm not really sure why it's changed or how to change it back again. It also feels like her teeth are grinding against me a bit.

Any suggestions, please?

I don't have many suggestions except to persevere with asking her to open wider. Could her canines or molars (ime) be coming through? If so, I have found that the latch thing resolves itself after they come through.

Thanks foxy. I think she has had back teeth coming through recently but haven't checked for a while. One side is now absolutely fine, the other is still broken glass agony - luckily it's our favourite side which doesn't hurt and we're down to only 1-2 feeds a day so we can just use that one most of the time and hope I don't end up too wonky!

(PS we were on a thread together a couple of years ago, think it was a home birth one and I was probably called anglepoise by then - waves anyway :))

I remember that name. Did you get your home birth? /waves back/