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Where have you been for the past week???

AshleyfurilloAshleyfurillo member
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I've had a lot of latching issues. I asked the LC at the hospital if a nipple shield would help and she said no. Well after getting frustrated (both LO and myself) for the last week and having to pump multiple times a day I decided to try one anyway ..... It worked like a charm!!! Highly recommend to anyone having latching issues, I got the Medela one
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  • DebateThisDebateThis member
    I get the feeling a lot of LC's really hate shields for some reason - the LC at my hospital had a similar reaction to my question about one even when she only spent 10 minutes with me. Luckily some other nurses and my MW's thought differently and got me one asap. Night and day difference and I'm EBF. LO will now take one side w/o the shield and I'm slowly weaning off the other.

    Just make sure you wean off it asap and you read through this (and buy a couple backups!) and you should be good to go. https://kellymom.com/bf/concerns/child/wean-shield/
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  • AshleyfurilloAshleyfurillo member
    DebateThis said:

    I get the feeling a lot of LC's really hate shields for some reason - the LC at my hospital had a similar reaction to my question about one even when she only spent 10 minutes with me. Luckily some other nurses and my MW's thought differently and got me one asap. Night and day difference and I'm EBF. LO will now take one side w/o the shield and I'm slowly weaning off the other.

    Just make sure you wean off it asap and you read through this (and buy a couple backups!) and you should be good to go. https://kellymom.com/bf/concerns/child/wean-shield/

    Great article ... Thank you so much!
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  • cagoldicagoldi member
    I've had to use one as well. I hadn't even considered it and was just going straight to pumping. My Dad of all people bought me the Medela shields so I gave them a try and my LO was able to latch.

    Now I've been able to start weaning him from it; we are having about two feedings a day at this point during which he can nurse without it.
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  • AmcabbottAmcabbott member
    Yeah the LC at the hospital where I delivered was not happy when I used a nipple shield (which my nurse had me using btw). So I stopped using it because I assumed the LC knew best. I wish I hadn't though since my son was born at 36w3d and so he had a lot of latching issues at first. I think a shield would have saved me a lot of grief! He's now almost 4 weeks and is doing much better with latching but still has the occasional bad latch!
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  • AshleyfurilloAshleyfurillo member
    I have a friend who's a LC at a diff hospital than I delivered at and if it wasn't for her I would have given up on BF! She was so mad when I to her about my experience, the LC at my hospital didn't even come see me until the night before I was discharged and that was after my 3rd request ..... You think they would be a little more helpful seeing that's what there job is
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  • sla626sla626 member
    Maybe I should try one. He latches great on right but its takes time for left and it kills when he does latch onto left. I will have to check it out. Thank you!
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  • firefliesandfjordsfirefliesandfjords member
    I had one LC say it wouldn't help, and another LC who also worked in the NICU as a nurse encourage me to try it. Kate does well either way now, it just depends on her...I don't know, mood? haha at that particular feeding, but before she couldn't latch well or for very long without it.
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  • meredity11meredity11 member
    With my son the nurses told me not to try and it wasn't until I saw the LC 30 min before I left the hospital that she recommended it. Saved us because DS was not latching at all. We used it for about 4 months until I was eventually able to wean him. We had a great feeding time and he was 95% exclusively breastfeed until 12 months. So if your little one doesn't wean immediately don't stress ( at least not from my experience).
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  • CarrieB.CarrieB. member
    I was talking w the LC yesterday bc DD2 had a bad latch and her advice was to lean back more when I was nursing.

    It's actually helped a lot and was a really easy fix. I didn't even realize that I was kind of hunching over her when I was feeding her which isn't very helpful to her latching.
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  • Mum2Be28Mum2Be28 member
    I had latching issues too. I have large breasts and my nipples aren't inverted but they don't stick out very far. I was about to try a shield when something else worked. I just took my shirt off several minutes before feeding and put some cold water on my nipples and let the cold air flow so my nipples would stick out more. Baby started latching. Pumping a couple minutes before a feeding also did the same thing.
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  • Kfran84Kfran84 member
    Nipple shields are my magical unicorn of motherhood so far. We've been on and off them, but now that my milk is in we are using them more because the engorgement makes the latching harder-- just as we had gotten the hang if it!

    Oh well. I love them. I can even take it off mid-feed once LO gets the nipple popped up enough to get a good latch without it. Highly recommend!


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