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How do you protect your nips from a toothy baby?

Fish4FunFish4Fun
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Other than the painful first two weeks, BFing has been miraculously easy for me.  Unfortunately, DD's bottom tooth is starting to really hurt me.  DH had an idea to modify a nip shield so that it can cover the base where the tooth keep rubbing.

Any other ideas or suggestions?

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Re: How do you protect your nips from a toothy baby?

  • Kari MerksKari Merks member
    DO NOT cut the nipple shield or it will cut you or your DD.  Honestly you get used to it.  It gets worse when the top 2 are coming in, but then you get in a groove again.  Stas has 8 teeth and I hardly ever feel them and ::knock on wood:: she doesn't bite.
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  • noah-bearnoah-bear member

    If the bottom tooth is scratching you then she probably doesn't have a proper latch. From the way DS nurses his tongue covers his bottom teeth, but the top ones scrape me.

    Have you gone to see a LC?
     

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  • Fish4FunFish4Fun

    imageKari Merks:
    DO NOT cut the nipple shield or it will cut you or your DD.  Honestly you get used to it.  It gets worse when the top 2 are coming in, but then you get in a groove again.  Stas has 8 teeth and I hardly ever feel them and ::knock on wood:: she doesn't bite.

    Oh. Tongue Tied Glad I asked.

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  • Fish4FunFish4Fun
    imagenoah-bear:

    If the bottom tooth is scratching you then she probably doesn't have a proper latch. From the way DS nurses his tongue covers his bottom teeth, but the top ones scrape me.

    Have you gone to see a LC?
     

    Hmm, it only scraped really bad last night.  She had a fat top lip (no clue, don't ask), so maybe that messed up her latch.  Now that you mention it, I usually do see her tongue covering her bottom teeth.  And no, I haven't seen an LC since the weekend she was born.

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