Breast Feeding
My LO is 12 weeks and we’ve suddenly found breastfeeding really difficult, one of my nipples is completely cracked and she’s struggling to latch and the other one is starting to hurt as well 😫 Can anyone recommend anything to help please!
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Find a lactation consultant to evaluate and help you fix this. Best thing you can do.
I found organic coconut oil helped heal my cracked nipple really quickly! Plus it’s anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal and antibacterial. You may need to get your latch checked as well. They can become lazy and not latch nicely. You want to hold your boob like a hotdog and make sure your nipple and areola are in baby’s mouth and both top and bottom lips are out so like fishy or duck lips haha Hopefully that helps!
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I would focus on trying to correct the latch once they get used to feeding they can become quite lazy with the latch because they know what they’re doing if that makes sense? So if you notice the latch isn’t great just take her off and then put her back on guiding her to hopefully get a better latch xx