How many had significant pain at first?

Re: How many had significant pain at first?

• brooklynesque member

  October 2014

  A suggestion, if you can swing it: do your research in advance and find a good lactation consultant who will come to your home. Have her come the day after you get home from the hospital and again 4 or 5 days later. Don't wait until you are in pain or your baby is not gaining weight or whatever -- have an expert help you with latch, positioning, etc. from the very beginning. (Obviously take advantage of the hospital consultant as well when you're there.) Being proactive can help nip issues in the bud (no pun(s) intended). A good lactation consultant will cost you some $$ but it's a heck of a lot cheaper than formula feeding for a year.

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• Knottie30597254 member

  October 2014

  I had terrible pain with my first that ended up in 2 mastitis and me quitting after a month. With my secobd i net right away with a great LC who corrected my latch and showed me different positions, i used Silverette silver cups and a boppy pillow and was able to breastfeed for over a year!

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• kamilasekowska member

  October 2014

  For me (fair skin, freckles) it was a big amout of pain for first 5-6 weeks. I also got mastitis so after DD ate I hat to pump to empty out, but honestly pain was worst when she was latching on so only firs few seconds and if I really couldn't take it I'll pump and bottle feed her to have a break. I really wanted to breastfeed and now at 17 weeks we are going strong. Good luck!

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• nienot member

  October 2014

  It was very hard at first. In fact, I went through a really rough time for about a week immediately after birth where every time I breastfed it made me nauseous and I vomited. However, I pushed through it and eventually the vomiting stopped and I can't tell you how glad I am that I pushed through it. It isn't fun at first, but I promise it gets easier and if it doesn't, just talk to a LC and they can help a ton. It is so convenient to just nurse my son on demand versus having to prepare a bottle. Those 3-4 minutes of crying while the bottle is being prepared can really get to you. I know this, because my husband watched LO during the day and bottle feeds pumped milk and I've watched him on the webcam preparing the bottles while LO screams and screams and I think of how much easier it is for me, because I can feed him immediately.
  
  With that said, if it doesn't work out for you, it's nothing to beat yourself up over, but if you're mentally and physically able to BF, it can be easier on you in the long run.
  
  Good luck!

  
  

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• NADA-H member

  October 2014

  my pain was the first few times I tried to breast feed and mostly only at the initial latch, it was more weird that painful afterwards for the first few times and then it was fine.

  
  

  If your in pain the entire feeding then something is not right (latch/nipple/tongue tie) something is just not right.

  
  

  I read on breast feeding but didn't worry as much before my baby arrived because I thought that it must be people with bad experiences who mainly post their stories, not a lot of people will go online to say I breast fed and it was perfectly fine as opposed to the number of people posting online to get a solution for say a cracked nipple or clogged ducts, etc, etc and you won't find article that talk about how it doesn't hurt but you will find article written about the difficulties that you might run into during breast feeding (the pain, the problems, the cracking/bleeding, etc)

  
  

  Try to focus more on your baby than on the "what if's" at the moment, if breast feeding was significantly painful to everyone or the majority of women then the human race might not have continued to this day, or at least a lot of us wouldn't exist this day. Women didn't have many options back at the beginning of humanity.

  
  

  And try not to anticipate pain, I've found myself to have a lower pain enduring level when I anticipate pain in any thing in life (waxing- dentist visit- labor) the more focused you are on pain even if because you don't want it, the more you will be sensitive to it and would feel it.

  
  God Bless You my Little One
  Farida, our first child, born on the 19th of July 2014
  
  Farida, at 8 weeks
  
  

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• LolaX2 member

  October 2014

  BF was only a little painful her and there for me. Really not bad as my DD had a nice latch from the start. It does trigger contraction for your uterus to shrink back down and those were pretty painful for the first maybe week! If baby latches correctly there should be minimal pain, its more like massaging just past the nipple.

  
  

  Really my bigger problem was when I started pumping while at work. I have tried all different flange sizes and settled on one but I need to use a lubricant and sometimes it still makes my nips a bit raw/sore. For me nursing is much more comfortable. 

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• jess9802 member

  October 2014

  I will chime in to say that although it took DS and me some time to get the hang of nursing, it was never, ever painful. The lactation consultant I saw within a week of his birth thought my nipples were looking a little irritated and she told me to request a prescription for APNO (All Purpose Nipple Ointment - must get at a compounding pharmacy). I did, and it was amazing. I nursed DS for 19 months and it was only uncomfortable at the end, when he had a mouth full of teeth and his latch changed.
  
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