Educate me - nipple shields?

[squidipa]

My milk has only just come in today - and she hasn't attached properly at all since coming into this lovely world!

I think I'm just destined to not breastfeed cos none of my kids have ever attached properly

none of myn did either except in the end with josh do ya have the cash to spare to see if a shield would help? not a waist of money fi it helps i need to buy some more anyhow for myself.

you need to feel comfortable with any choice you choose to take sweet BFing was never gonna be a long thing for me i never found enjoyment from it but i was starting to feel o.k about it but josh was loosing to mcuh weight and not growing.

[Butterfly Child]

i just saw your FB status you poor thing!
i remember in the early days to with dd having a grazed nipples and the nipple sheilds were my life saver, i remember b4 using them id dread havinf to feed dd because it was so painful but after using them made things so much more painfree
From memory i think i used the avent ones ..i think. Goodluck hunn xx

[Arimeh]

At the moment I'm expressing cos its sooooo engorged...lol...... got 40 mls in ten mins each side - then i just did 10 mins again on the first side cos it was still killing - another 10 mls - now on the second side for the second time. Then going to have some panadol and a hot shower cos they are killing me!!

[Spring Angel]

The good thing Mel is that you have a wonderful supply. Sorry, I didn't realise the problems attaching have been since birth.

Do you think you'd want to try the breast crawl again. I did it after really poor attachment meant I had cracked and bleeding nipples. Turned out DS knew exactly what to do, he just had to do it in his own time.

I hope the shower and panadol does the trick.

Spring x

[Arimeh]

Spring - I never did a breast crawl with her - I don't know if it would work at the moment - she'd need the strength of 10 men to climb these mountains...lol

[Spring Angel]

There is a great video of it somewhere on here. It is amazing, I'll see if I can find the link.

BBL

ETA: here is the link. This video is just after birth however I also did it when DS was a few days old to correct the issues we had. My LC actually suggested doing it.

[squidipa]

that was a cool clip imight have to try that thanks

[Spring Angel]

It's pretty amazing hey? Barely out of the womb and their instincts help them find the way.