Cracked Nipples Prevention Hunker Tiktok

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I suffered very badly with cracked nipples (amongst other things) when establishing breastfeeding with DD.

What is the best way of preventing cracked nipples with the next baby ?

I was looking at this thread but putting paste on the cups and rinseing my nipples before use, sounds a big faff.

Should I concentrate on latch and positioning next time or get in loads of laninosh and jelonet just in case ?

I was told to start using me cream and giving them a bit of a tweak a few wks before dd1 arrived, seemed to help?

No evidence that tweaking or creams is in any way preventive (and both these things have been looked at in studies) - positioning and attachment are crucial, and check out baby-led attachment, BE.

Good luck

If it helped you, then great

Pychological, placebo, who cares........!

Thanks everyone.

If I manage to avoid surgery and stop them taking my new born baby straight away like they did last time, I hope to try to let him/her do the breast crawl thing.

Baby-Led Attachment Webpage with Pictures for any lurkers who might find it useful
You-tube video of a breastcrawl
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