Help! Latch all wrong at 4 weeks. What can I do??

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Dd is thriving and has put on a few onz per week, however she doesn't seem to be latching on right.
She is gulping and taking lots of air giving her terrible wind. We have literally just had a 3 hour screaming session from her.
I asked the health visitor to check her latch. She said maybe she could have more breast in her mouth but didn't tell me how to fix it.
She's not tongue tied and I have breastfed two babies till 12 months already so I'm not a particularly up tight feeder, but this is awful.
There isn't a breastfeeding consultant at the local hospital and tried the local bf support group wich was more of a social occasion than a help.
Anyone got any ideas?? Please??
I have a 21 month old running around going through the terrible twos and I fear for my sanity :-(

You could try an exaggerated latch to get more nipple in.. See Here for an animation of how.

It helped me with my ds2 until he grew a bit bigger

Is it ok to push the nipple in? The hv and midwives always told me to bring the babies head onto the nipple

How rude, I forgot to say thanks for the reply dairy

maybe it's not the latch, maybe you have a fast letdown or oversupply or similar that's making her have to gulp the milk faster?

Thisisyesterday might be on the right track also. Hard to tell!

Well, with the exaggerated latch you still bring baby to breast with opposite arm it's just you kind of flip the nipple in at the last second so baby has taken in a lot of areola first.. You kind of place your fingers under the breast but far enough back so they're not in the way, and making sure you don't lift the breast at all. Then press down above nipple to tilt it back slightly. Wait till baby opens nice and wide then bring to breast and let the nipple in right at the last second. Sorry, hard to explain with not being there irl! Basically you don't want to move the breast and you still want to being baby to you but just helping to get more nipple in

I think I know what u mean dairy.
Do you think I should express till I'm passed my let down?
When I do express I get a good 2onz from my let down alone

I'm not sure about the expressing. Baby will probably get used to a fast let down over time if you have one. My ds used to triggered let down then come off whilst it was spraying all over for a minute then go back on! I just kept a muslin to hand and caught the spray till it slowed a bit then tried again. It's early days, your supply will settle in the coming weeks and he will get better at the whole feeding thing too