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My nips hurt.

**Gretchen****Gretchen**
in Babies: 3 - 6 Months

Kiddo has been eating more at daycare recently, so I have been trying to increase my pumping sessions and it's killing my nips.

They feel bruised.

Sucks.

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Re: My nips hurt.

  • NDwife07NDwife07

    I have to pump 24/7 when I'm away for work, and was having the same thing...until the LC told me I had the suction up WAY too high. I had no idea. I get just as much milk, if not more, when I lower the setting.

    Also, try rubbing a little olive oil inside the flanges (where the angled part meets the cylinder part, if that makes sense).

    Do your nipples look the same after a pumping session as they do before? If not, you're using too much suction!

    GL!

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  • **Gretchen****Gretchen**

    I have it barely turned on and I have bigger flanges. I'm wondering if I need to go to an even bigger size.

    I will try the olive oil or nipple cream on the flanges though. I think that might help.

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