Some of you may have seen already that I've had awful trouble BF. DD is 6 weeks today and still exclusively BF but I'm going to start very slowly introducing formula from tonight with the view to mixed feeding but will just wean her onto formula completely if it's still not feeling sustainable for me.
I have awful pain BF, have had latch checked numerous times by loads of different people (Midwives, Infant Feeding Team specialist midwife, breastfeeding peer supporters...), everyone says it looks good, but I know it's not because it still bloody hurts and my nipple often comes out looking blanched/lip-stick shaped etc and have a blistered ridge on both of them on a weird angle as DD insists on feeding at a weird angle. I started using nipple shields roughly every other feed about 3 weeks ago against the advice of the BF peer supporters but with support from my community midwife and the infant feeding team midwife, still found feeding with them a bit painful but nowhere near as bad and it has given them some time to heal a bit, they're still damaged but not as bad. I was feeding every-other-time with them so that DD didn't forget how to latch without as I've seen people have trouble with this online. She had no trouble latching with or without (well, apart from the problems I'm having with pain etc).
Suddenly since yesterday afternoon she's stopped wanting to latch with the nipple shields on. I can't find anyone on the internet who has had this problem. She takes a bottle fine and a dummy fine as well by the way. She is latching onto my breast but crying and screaming when I try to put her on if the shield is on. I am devestated as this was what got me through the last few weeks - now I am feeding her without them even just since last night I can feel my nipples getting more damaged and sore and the feeds are getting increasingly painful because of that so it seems our BF journey is going to end even quicker than expected 
as I cannot bear the pain of feeding her this frequently without the shields. DH says I should just introduce formula faster i.e. every other feed or something from today but I think that will cause problems with my boobs as it seems too sudden for my milk supply to adapt surely?
Anyway, does anyone have any tips at all about how I can get her to stop refusing the shields? She has had no problems with them so I have no idea why she suddenly won't use them?!