Nipple Care & Engorgement
How to protect and care for your nipples to ensure pain-free breastfeeding. Your nipples are the “gateway” to your baby’s food source. and it’s important that you take care of them to ensure breastfeeding success. Here’s how to protect and care for your nipples before and during breastfeeding, especially in the early days when breastfeeding may be a little bit painful. The goal is to feed your baby without pain, and our tips will help you to do just that.
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Use a Nipple Shield when breastfeeding if you have damaged nipples, inverted nipples or baby has a poor latch.
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Cracked and Sore Nipples
Cracked nipples and painful breastfeeding. Some breastfeeding tips and breast feeding advice for you and your baby from Breastmates -
Protecting your Nipples
Use silicone nipple protectors when your nipples have been damaged from breastfeeding. These will help you to continue nursing. -
Using Nipple Shields
Nipple Shields: when to use them, do you need them? And we list the advantages and disadvantages of using nipple shields in this Breastmates article -
When to Use Nipple Shields
Medela Nipple Shields - are a temporary tool to assist you and baby learning how to breastfeed, and getting you through the first initial weeks. -
Engorged Breasts
Engorged Breasts from Breastfeeding - what they look like and how to treat them -
Baby Doesn't Latch on One Side
Baby doesn't seem to latch on one side, and having trouble breastfeeding with one breast. The other side is fine. A customer had a query and our lactation consultant (IBCLC) provided some suggestion -
Cabbage Leaves for Engorged Breasts
Cabbage leaves for engorged breasts. How to use cabbage leaves to make a compress to relieve sore breasts with breastfeeding -
Heavy Leakage
A lot of breast milk leakage when breastfeeding? What is the best breast pad for all this leakage? Pigeon pads, hemp breast pads, or even breast milk collection shells. -
Latching for Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding and Latching your baby for breast feed. How to nurse your baby and position correcting. From Breastmates Breastfeeding store.