Not getting easier..

caromartin

So my LO is 3 months now and we still are doing so-so. Looks like she is getting lazy and won't open her mouth wide. She prefers to suck in my nipple which is not pleasant. My nipples are burning by the time she goes to bed. Any tricks to help? TIA!

bellelamb

I'm sorry your having a hard time, the best thing to do is to take her off and help her re-latch when she isn't on right or you will get very sore and she won't get enough milk and will get frustrated. I know around that time my son started having some teething pain and when though a while of not wanting to latch correctly so I know how hard it is.  I did go back to using nipple cream at that point for my own comfort. Also sometimes hand expressing a little onto your nipple before trying to put lo on helps them to get excited and open wider for you. And remember you can always call a lc they can help a lot.

katiewhompus

I feel like DD forgot how to latch around 3 months too. I squish my nipple between my thumb and pointer finger to make sure I got a goodly amount in her mouth when we ate. If she had a crappy latch we'd try again. After about 2 weeks she figured it out. I just chalked it up to teething pain or having different control over her mouth/tongue.

nosoup4u

Definitely take the time to re-latch her if she doesn't have a good latch the first time. It's pretty early for teeth, but she could be getting some, my son's latch got bad when he got his first ones. It helped to gently pull on his chin when he would latch on. hth