I've been breastfeeding my almost 10 month old from the start.
He's generally fed well, only having a few little bumps in the road (getting distracted etc)
He currently has 4 teeth and when the 2 top teeth initially came in I started to be able to feel them grating against my nipple and it got so sore on the left side breast.
I tried repositioning but nothing seemed to work. It eventually stopped and I assumed maybe he was just getting used to feeding with these giant top teeth in the way.
He's had these teeth for a month or so now and suddenly the grating is back, but worse. I have a cut in the nipple where they've grates against it so much and the pain is unreal.
I just don't know what to do. I can't feed him with that pain. I'm trying to reposition but it doesn't seem to help. I've expressed from that side tonight and he's taken about 120ml from a bottle.
I don't really want to deal with the faff of pumping and feeding and sterilising and washing etc as life is so busy. But I can't bare the pain and thought maybe it might give it time to heal?
Anyone got any tips? I go back to work in September and so the intention was to move him to cows milk towards the end of August so I wasn't really planning to stop just yet.