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akalutts
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pumping for a few days to allow nips to heal?
akalutts
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Will this work? Am I kidding myself? I honestly could not leave her on the breast last night because of the pain so I pumped then fed her. What will the repercussions be if I do this for a few days?
I doesn't seem to matter if I get her latched on correctly right now, it's still excrutiating. Over the course of two nights she bruised/chapped my nipples by starting to clamp - we had a "decent" latch prior to that, but I know it still needed work. (She has a tongue tie and I wasn't always good at taking her off if she slipped a bit.)
Once they're healed, we still have to resolve the clamping issue - sort of lost on that one as well. I think it's because of a fast let down though (it's not horribly fast, but clearly too fast for her).
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Re: pumping for a few days to allow nips to heal?
I had to do this a lot. I would pump for 2-3 days until I felt better and then continue to BF - you should definitely do it, or you will go crazy and dread the next feeding. It's really a pain with a young baby like yours, because they require constant attention, and there's almost no time to pump.
We had our son's tongue-tie clipped, and I didn't notice a huge difference. What has helped me a lot is to do the U-hold before the baby latches, and continue to hold throughout the feeding. It keeps the nipple farther inside his mouth. It feels kinda mean, but it will help in the long run. Also, as he got older, and he realized he was about to eat, he would open his mouth wide, and that helped a lot. When he was little his latch was so shallow, and I just couldn't get him to open wide to make it better.
Good luck! It's so frustrating.
Thank you for replying ladies - I was doing that U thing too, and the first LC told me I could let go - I will go back to that when we start nursing again. I made another appt with my hospital's Great Starts program for tomorrow, so hopefully I will be healed enough to try again there. I'm going to push our pedi on the tongue tie - it's all well and good that she's gaining weight like a champ, but I'm in agony so there's no way we can continue to BF if this keeps up. I think it's worth the try to see if clipping it helps.
Thankfully my DH works from home so I am not alone trying to feed and pump. I would've gone insane already if I were alone.
GL to both of you as well!
I did, and it worked for me. I had gotten to the point of crying in pain for most feedings, so it took awhile for me to get back to nursing. For about a week, I pumped for every feeding except for one. I nursed once a day, I felt like that would help DS not forget. Who knows if that made a difference. Once my nipples had healed, and I wasn't dreading nursing anymore, I added in a few more nursing sessions per day.
My LO had a slight tongue tie, and my LC showed me a tongue exercise that was supposed to help him suck correctly. I don't know if that was what helped, but he did improve after a couple weeks. I think part of it was also just his mouth getting bigger and stronger.
I know what you mean about this! I felt like no one was too concerned about my troubles, because DS was gaining. Well once we got past it, he went from the 50th percentile in weight to the 86th! I wanted to call the nurses and say I told you so!
Do whatever you have to do to get past this hump. I couldn't believe how easy it became later, because it was so hard in the beginning.