Anyones advise would be greatly appreciated. I've just had my second baby she's now 17 days old. 1st DD is 23 months. I had huge problems bf 1st, didn't latch on for 8 days then poor latch then thrush, mastitus 3 times before giving up and expressing which lasted for 8 weeks before supply started to dwindle.
This time round DD 2 has fed brilliant when born, good latch milk came in day 2. When milk came in she learnt to pull back,maybe the flow was too fast for her and her latch became hit and miss and she seemed to prefer to do it her way (with a shallow latch) causing cracked nipples, then blistering, then bleeding during a feed. I decided to give her a bottle for one or two feeds a day of expressed milk to let myslef heal. Seemed to work and nipples improved have now hardened up, blisters gone and no bleeding. But still struggling, am managing about 2-3 good feeds which are comfortable a day the rest tend to be uncomfy but not agony anymore. I'm getting pain inbetween feeding too. And when my nipple comes out of her mouth it has a white sort of blanched tip as if the blood supply is lost to it and then my boob starts to hurt this happens even when the feed has been comfortable.
Last week my GP said I had deep breast thrush and has treated me and her for that which I can say the thrush pain has gone now (I was able to identify that quickly as I had it recurrently with DD1). But starting to feel at my wits end a bit as I have DD2 to care for. Not sure whether to continue in the hopr the comfy feeds increase and the pain between feeds goes away or shall I just switch to bottles express for as long as I can and then go to formula.
I've seen every midwife going and a bf feeding advisor all say the latch is good and encourage me to continue but feeling rather down about it as stuck indoors trying to perfect the latch with DD2 and DD1 going stir crazy as she's fed up of TV! It's not really the way to go on!