Very sensitive nipples

[Leax]

Has anyone experienced really sensitive nipples when breastfeeding. I don't mean sore cracked etc, but rather finding the sensation of breastfeeding almost unbearable at tiomes?

I am still at the sore stage (baby 2 weeks old) but underlying this is a dislike of the sesation of feeding, I just feel i want it to stop. It sounds awful but it's kind of a yeuchy skin crawling feeling. I remember on my first child after i got through the painful first weeks i had a similar sensitivity. He had acid reflux though and screamed and wouldn't feed properly for weeks until he started on zantac and gaviscon, so i was mainly expressing rather than directly feeding and switched to formula altogether at 7 weeks, so i don't know if that feeling would have resolved.

I'd love to know if anyone has experienced anything similar and if so did it go away or beome more tolerable?

Hmm, that sounds unpleasant for you. I'd think you would get used to it and find it less unpleasant over time?

I didn't have quite the same thing, but DS2's latch was really strong when he was tiny, so I had a lot of pain when he first latched on, even though everything was fine. Knowing everything was fine meant I could cope, and the pain did get less over time.

Have you been to a breastfeeding counsellor? It would be a good idea to maybe get someone to watch you feeding and just double-check everything is ok, and talk through what you're doing through, in person?