Idk What I should do.

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Yep I remember that pain :-( And I promise it does go away if you stick with it! As long as you continue to put baby to the breast you will still produce milk. The same thing happened with my first except eventually (around 6 weeks) my daughter would only feed from the nipple of a bottle and not my breast - so a slightly different scenario.

Perhaps the soreness is from incorrect latching? It may be that baby is getting confused between the two nipples and latching incorrectly to your breast?

You will come out the other side I promise! If you can bear with the pain (it has always been short-term for me) things will only get better. I think we all have doubts as to whether we produce enough milk at some point.

As to your question of upping your milk supply - it can and will happen if you keep putting baby to the breast :-) All babies go through growth spurts where they seem to feed continuously for a couple of days - this is to up your supply to meet their new demands as they grow. And having a baby attached to your breast for that long can absolutely cause sore nipples. Keep applying a lanolin based barrier cream - these always worked best for me.

Ultimately you know what is best for you and for your baby. Good luck!

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Yep I remember that pain :-( And I promise it does go away if you stick with it! As long as you continue to put baby to the breast you will still produce milk. The same thing happened with my first except eventually (around 6 weeks) my daughter would only feed from the nipple of a bottle and not my breast - so a slightly different scenario.

Perhaps the soreness is from incorrect latching? It may be that baby is getting confused between the two nipples and latching incorrectly to your breast?

You will come out the other side I promise! If you can bear with the pain (it has always been short-term for me) things will only get better. I think we all have doubts as to whether we produce enough milk at some point.

As to your question of upping your milk supply - it can and will happen if you keep putting baby to the breast :-) All babies go through growth spurts where they seem to feed continuously for a couple of days - this is to up your supply to meet their new demands as they grow. And having a baby attached to your breast for that long can absolutely cause sore nipples. Keep applying a lanolin based barrier cream - these always worked best for me.

Ultimately you know what is best for you and for your baby. Good luck!

Ditto!

If you start taking a feeding that you would normally be doing formula for and BF'd Aiden and do that for a few days, then take away another formula feed and do BF'd instead you will build your supply back up in no time

My supply went way down when I got sick and I've gotten it back up. If you google lactation cookies you will find some good recipes that have brewers yeast in them which will help. Also you can get a mothers milk tea from a homeopath store. I've got fenugreek and blessed thistle but haven't tried it yet.

Honestly the best way to get your milk up is to keep putting baby to breast. Your body knows what to do. My nipples hurt like the devil but you just have to keep at it if that's what you want to do!!

Best of luck

I agree with PP. the best thing you can do for your milk supply is to stop supplementing with formula. And see an LC to check his latch. I've been nursing for almost 4 weeks now, AMD it still hurts like the devil when he latches on, and I'm still sore when he nurses for too long. But it does get better.

Thank you guys so much.. I just went out and got the lanolin cream.. And I'm calling the lactation cunsultant tomorrow. I really don't want to give up Breastfeeding. I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this type of pain.