I was just reflecting on the last few months and thinking about the terrible time I had getting BF started. I had badly cracked and infected nipples and it caused four weeks of total agony where I was crying at every feed, then another four weeks of pain followed by four weeks of discomfort until hurah at three months things started to get better.
Thing is I sought a lot of help from counsellors etc and they all told me to leave my nipples to air dry. This just made things worse and I am so thankful to the advice I was given here about moist wound healing which finally set me on track.
Why do people not know about this? I wasted so much time air drying which only made things worse!