ashleywalton
Mama of 3 girls
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Hang in there Bookity. Hope it gets easier for you.
Lurking. Dealing with nipple issues. Feeling much like totally giving up all bf-ing (including pumping). Once in a while I feel like I will persevere, but mostly I just want to quit. *sigh*
Lurking. Dealing with nipple issues. Feeling much like totally giving up all bf-ing (including pumping). Once in a while I feel like I will persevere, but mostly I just want to quit. *sigh*
I can't get her to latch on the left side to save my life. When she does get on and stays there for more than a minute, I find that she has migrated above my nipple. So not getting any milk. Doh! The right I can get her on and she'll suck and swallow, but she's only taking in the nipple and nothing else so it hurts like a MOTHER. Usually the pain disspates after a minute and I just let her continue because I want her to have SOMETHING. But it was bad today and there was bleeding and then my boob stuck to my breast pad and I had to pry it off and OMG that was PAINFUL. I'm pumping for the rest of the day (and maybe tomorrow) to give my boobs a break. I hope we can get this latch thing figured out soon. Thinking I need to seek some help with this latch, but for some stupid reason my way of thinking tells me that if I ask for help I'm admitting failure.
Her first ped appointment is Wednesday and I'm so afraid that her weight is going to be really low and I'll be told I'm not doing enough for her. My first daughter continually lost weight for the first couple of weeks and then picked up at 2 weeks old finally got to her birth weight. After that though she sky rocketed and picked up weight like a champ. That's also when I began exclusively pumping. I don't think she was getting enough from me when we used the nipple shields, but she never even got as far as this one with latching... I'm hoping there will be some improvement in the near future. It would be lovely to make straight bf-ing work, but I worry I don't have the patience for it. My poor baby.