Breastfeeding pain help - teething baby

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My son is turning 10 months this weekend and is ebf. Aside from the initial pain as a newborn, breastfeeding has never been painful for me.

He got his first tooth at 6 months and they have now come thick and fast, he has 4 bottom teeth fully through, and is just breaking his 3rd top tooth. When the first two top teeth came through, nothing changed, however yesterday the second lateral incisor at the top just broke through and since then the latch has been so painful on the left boob (weirdly only the left one).

At the moment I’m feeding through it as I don’t want to cause supply issues, but just wondering if anyone else has experienced nipple pain as a result of teething, and whether is passed once the tooth fully broke through? Any tips would be helpful! He is a bottle refuser so switching to bottles isn’t an option at the moment.

Thank you!

Yes, I had this when mine were teething - their latch will change a bit as they get used to it

Try Different positions so your baby isn’t stuck on the same sore spot - try rugby hold and lie down hold, it will pass

They get used to it and you get used to it. It's not the best but it does pass!

I had this exact issue when mine was around 8 months- somehow one of his teeth was rubbing the same spot in the left side every feed and it soon became really sore. I did feed him less from that side for a while to give it chance to recover a bit between feeds - didn't affect my supply noticeably or case any other issues. I also started getting him to latch by kind of putting the nipple into his mouth from the bottom rather than the top if that makes sense? Somehow this meant the offending tooth wasn't sitting in the same place and rubbing, and I recovered pretty quickly after that. So as someone else suggested, maybe changing the position a bit will help?

@KatRee @ShirleyPhallus @UnravellingTheWorld Thank you all! Very much appreciated and good to know it’s not that unusual, I did start to worry as it had been months since I had any pain like that.

Will try some different angles and positions and see if it helps at all 🤞🏼hopefully once it’s pushed through properly we will be back to pain free feeding. Sounds like I just need to try and get it so that the troublesome tooth is in a different place/ angle. God it’s hard isn’t it! Especially at this age, he’s wriggly enough as it is!