Nikki wrote:
>     The differential diagnosis between first minute latch-on pain and pain
> from thrush or poor latch or clenching or anything else is that the FMLOP
> goes away within a minute and is usually gone by the end of the first week or
> two. Telling mothers what it is, encouraging them to drop their shoulders and
> imagine rivers of flowing milk all help her through this phenomenon.
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That's a very good point you make, for when a mother is scared to feel the pain
she had in the last feed(s), she might not give herself enough (literally hold
herself and her breast back) and thus create real nipple pain by causing
incorrect latch.

>     I suspect that it occurs more often in a primalacta, a woman having her
> first lactation. What do you all think?

Yes, that's my observation as well.

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, living in Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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