painful breastfeeding

[bini]

I am breastfeeding my six week old baby but I am still getting bad pain when he latches on. I've had the positioning and latching on checked and it's all fine and I've been examined by a doctor and apparently I have nothing wrong with my breasts. Why am I still getting pain and will it ever get any better cos I can't see me carrying on much longer otherwise!!!

what is blanching exactly, by the way

God,don't listen to the bloody doctor. Generally speaking,they know f** all about b/feeding!

I agree - my doctor here in France asked me not to breastfeed in the EMPTY waiting room in case I upset anyne passing through???!"!!!

Oh ffs! What did you say??

Oh ffs! What did you say??

bini - basically blanching is when nipples turns white - look at link I made below.
Dr knows fxxx all as you say !
I gad very painful BF for 6 weeks and then it became much easier and I was soooo chiffed I persisted (and it was really difficult!) I continued for 8 months !

bloody dr's

We have to get over this ludicrous 19th century forelock tugging when it comes to GPs.
At least in France tv,you can access specialist care directly.I work in a field which a lot of people (wrongly) assume they need a GP to access.
The mess they make of things-!

letdown reflex weird and not imo the nicest feeling in the world. bf really does get better. does take awhile, but well worth it. shed a lot of tears over bf problem for a good few weeks.

My letdown pain feels like pins being stuck in. If you can be sure that's what it is, well, from my experience it's at its worst around 2 months, and then it gets better. (If you get it when you're not nursing, and then your breastpads fill, then it's probably letdown pain.) And it doesn't mean anything's wrong.

Now, at nearly 8 months, I can barely tell when letdown happens. The pain disappeared this way with my first son, too. It just slowly got less and less, and then went away.

teeavee, I can't imagine what I'd say to someone who said something like that to me. I hear France is even worse for BF than here - Ireland and France are the only two European countries with lower bf rates.

my GP wanted to weigh the baby before and after a feed - totally silly, imo, and proves nothing - what happens if he has a pee after the feed but before being weighed?!
Anyway, I went along with it, and after the first weigh-in, when I offered to go to the waiting rooom for the feed, he said he'd rather I stayed in his consutling room. I said I didn't mind going out, and he then said it might upset anyone passing through!
So I stayed in his consulting room to feed my ds, and the doctor made himself scarce - acred of my boobs perhaps?!
My GP is v. old-school -doesn't 'do' smalltalk or bedside manner.
I'm going to change to another GP before July - that's when, here in France, they will be adopting the policy of naming one GP and then being obliged to go through him for a reference to more specialist care, similar to the UK.

However, Gynaecologists and Paediatricians will be the exception to this new rule.

for acred, read scared

the reactions I've had to breastfeeding from my older female in-laws here in France have been ones of pity combined with - 'aren't you being a bit masochistic?' 'why don't you stop, if it's hurting you?' and (after 7 months) 'what? you're STILL breastfeeding?!'(+ look of slight disgust mixed with morbid fascination)

needless to say, none of them ever breastfed - my mil even tried her first ds on real cow's milk when he was 3 months old, 'as he was throwing up and crying constantly on formula' and seemed not to grasp that this may have been the cause of the subsequent serious diarrhoaea that made him extremely poorly!