I just saw a mom today who has horrendous nipple damage. Baby is 3 weeks old and doing well, has strong suck, and strong need to suck. Mom's right breast is cracked so badly it looks like part of the nipple is about 3/4 detached. Left breast damaged but not nearly as bad. We worked extensively tonight on latch of the left breast, mom pumped on right for stimulation/engorgement. I told her not to let baby nurse on Right until nipple healed and his latch improved. My question is, what is the best treatment, besides correcting position and latch, to deal with such extreme damage? I had advised her to stay away from lanisoah and breast pads for now. I did an archive and internet search but only got conflicting studies. COuld someone help advise me so that I can help this poor mom? Andrea, RN, (hopefully IBCLC in 2004) [log in to unmask] *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html