DD2 refusing right breast.

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MincePie · 19/12/2003 10:07

Well, exactly like it says in the title really! She doesn't even close her mouth around my nipple before her head goes back legs start kicking and she starts SCREAMING. But put her on the left and she is fine.

Help! My right is getting seriously engorged (and I do express a bit first in the hope this will help her latch on, but as I said she won't even latch on) and she seems so distressed.

Any ideas?

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champs · 30/12/2003 18:22

did you remember to push the ball in before you put into nose? I was using it wrong at first and it was pushing air, you have to squeeze ball end then put thin end into nose, then when you unsqueeze the snot goes into the asparate which type did you get?
I tested my one out on me when I first got it to make sure I wasn't hurting baby.

pie · 30/12/2003 19:02

Yep thats what I did, still felt like my brain was being sucked out...I got one made by Nuk.

champs · 01/01/2004 15:23

hmmm... That doesn't sound nice at all, I use one by the first years, looks like a purple mini turkey baster!! . How is the situation now? does she still out right reject it?
Have you tried talking to breast feedin counsellor?
I've found that b/f is abit like trial and error, ecept that sometimes one thing wont work one day and another it will!!!

Bron · 01/01/2004 15:33

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pie · 01/01/2004 17:39

I just got one in my local independent chemist bron. They had loads in my local one, let me know if you have no luck, perhaps I could get one out to you

Hi Champs, she will still refuse right depending on how much snot she has, so I think this is all thats causing it. I haven't thus spoken to a b/f counsellor as I think I just have to sit it out. She will take it when her nose isn't blocked so it isn't totally neglected now!

SusannaLH · 02/01/2004 21:10

Nothing to add to previous messages, Pie, just intrigued as my dd (24 weeks) has for the last 3 days gone ballistic on occasion when I try the right boob. She also has a cold. Any luck with the aspirator? It doesn't happen all the time, and is annoying rather than being a huge problem. It's just that she always has that boob last thing so I can get her into her cot at right end and on the comfy side with minimum manhandling.

champs · 04/01/2004 16:26

Pie-- glad that you are doing better with the b/f. Did you try a different asparate?

Bron-- You can get the mini turkey baster from chemists and baby/nursery shops. what are do you live in?

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