https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:12:24 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nipple-pain-1#post-1538822 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:36:20 +0000 Pumuckl 1538822@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm sorry to hear you're in so much pain! :heart: I know where you're coming from. It was a nearly 2.5m ordeal for me before it got any better. </p> <p>What really helped for me was a tip my LC had. It is called a assymetric latch. That way LO didn't squeeze the middle of my nipples to badly and that really helped my nipples heal. (<a href="http://kellymom.com/ages/newborn/bf-basics/latch-resources/" rel="nofollow">http://kellymom.com/ages/newborn/bf-basics/latch-resources/</a> - sorry if you already know all of that). And she recommend using Ibuprofen (400) for a couple of days and always take LO off when it felt uncomfortable and start over. Took about 2w and then things were better.</p> <p>Also have you ruled out thrush? Mrs. Pen just did a blog post on that (<a href="http://www.hellobee.com/2014/04/01/breastfeeding-and-thrush/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellobee.com/2014/04/01/breastfeeding-and-thrush/</a>). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nipple-pain-1#post-1538811 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:29:36 +0000 ElbieKay 1538811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes it pretty much feels like soreness from overuse.</p> <p>In the past 5 days or so, I have started to feel a painful tingling sensation a minute or two after I start to nurse or pump. It is sharper in the side I'm *not* nursing on. It lasts for maybe 20-30 seconds, and I think it is my letdown but I'm not sure.</p> <p>To add insult to injury, I just pumped for 25 mins and got... 1 oz. I don't understand the variability in my pumping yield. It doesn't even seem to correspond to time of day. Yesterday morning at the exact same time I got 7 oz. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nipple-pain-1#post-1538802 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:19:31 +0000 hilsy85 1538802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is it the same sort of pain? Like just soreness from constant use, more or less? Or is it a burning, itchy pain? Or a throbbing pain? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nipple-pain-1#post-1538780 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 05:54:16 +0000 ElbieKay 1538780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My nipple pain is back.</p> <p>It was horrible in the hospital, and I spent a few weeks alternating between nursing and pumping.</p> <p>At 12 days old, my son had his lip tie lasered. I had pumped for two days straight before the procedure, and it was immediately easier to nurse. I started nursing through the day and pumping three times at night. I did that for a week.</p> <p>This weekend, we traveled to a funeral. I nursed straight through the road trip, 11 times. We came home and I pumped twice (and nursed once) during the night.</p> <p>Now my nipples are sore and last night I yelped during a latch for the first time since his lip tie procedure.</p> <p>It almost feels like now that he's older, he has a stronger suck to offset the benefits of having a bigger mouth.</p> <p>Has anyone experienced something like this? Any suggestions? I already have an rx cream from my doctor, and yesterday I started using gel pads again but they only helped for one session.</p> <p>Ugh. I hate everything about this. </p>