Posting for a friend. Her baby is a week old and due to a poor latch initially she has cracked bleeding and painful nipples. She is expressing and baby takes ebm from bottle and Saturday night managed to get baby latched and feed without pain on one side.
Any tips to get her healed and a good latch on both sides?
She has midwife coming later today to try to help. I have pointed her in the direction of lll nct helplines, given info about local groups and offered to go with her or go round when I don't have my toddler.
She is using lanolin and letting air get to them, I have said to try different positions too, no training in bf myself just personal experience, is there any other information that could help her to heal and get back to successful bf?
She is also concerned that taking a bottle will put baby off bf if she's not careful.