I'm at the end of my rope at the moment. Miss A is getting worse with day time feeds. Unless I am in close to a pitch black room and lying down with her, she is constantly ripping off or nearly off while feeding - sometimes dragging my nipple with her in whatever direction her head is going, and sometimes releasing my nipple but doing it so violently that its even more painful than not releasing at all ITMS. My nipples are so bruised and raw that just having a bra on is agony with the movement of fabric over them.

Obviously best case scenario is to always feed her in a dark room lying down but that's just not possible for a lot of the time, especially now the girls have finished school for the year. I've started putting my boob away if she keeps mucking around but the end result of that is our 1-2 hourly overnight all night feeding becomes every 40 minutes while she catches up.

Any ideas on what I can do to discourage this? She won't feed if I use a nipple shield and she flat out refuses a bottle. Any and all pearls of wisdom gratefully received. I'm so thrilled that we've made it past 6 months, but geez its not always fun