My nipple pain is back.

It was horrible in the hospital, and I spent a few weeks alternating between nursing and pumping.

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.

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.

Now my nipples are sore and last night I yelped during a latch for the first time since his lip tie procedure.

It almost feels like now that he's older, he has a stronger suck to offset the benefits of having a bigger mouth.

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.

Ugh. I hate everything about this.