If you are nursing a 2+ year old...

NYBride0813

are you in any discomfort while LO is latched on? I am tandem nursing my 2 year old and newborn, and during my pregnancy, I assumed my discomfort was pregnancy related. Now, with my newborn I feel nothing while he is latched, but when DS #1 is nursing, it is so uncomfortable and I feel his teeth on my nipple. I try to tell him gentle, no teeth, but I don't think he is really getting in. Anyone deal with this and/or fix an older toddlers latch?

Harper'smom

Way to go with the tandem nursing.

DD goes through periods where her latch just seems off. I don't know if it is teething related or not. When she was teething her latch would get "chompy" but that seems to have subsided. She now has all of her teeth except for her 2 yr molars. We definetly no longer have a deep latch and I have to be super careful when she is sleepy. I had a tough time prying myself out of her asleep clamped down mouth the other day and was lucky that I didn't get a really bad pinch. I just try and make sure she is really opening wide but she seems to prefer a shallow, precarious, latch these days.

 

Quazel

Yes!  Lately it has been really uncomfortable.  Not every single time but very often.  I find it comes and goes when DS is getting new teeth.  He has some canines coming through and his two year molars possibly so I think that is what is going on.  Even though he doesn't bite when he nurses, I feel a lot of teeth.  Hopefully it will pass for both of us!

Lotte134

Quazel:

I find it comes and goes when DS is getting new teeth.

Same here.  DS is working on 2 year molars and his latch is pretty uncomfortable right now.  In the past it's always gotten better once the teeth were through so I'm hoping that remains the case.