> I need to start watching:  does lack of sucking blister accompany short
> nipple post-feed?  Does elongated nipple, post-feed, tend to go along with a
> sucking blister?

Well, I could add my anecdotal evidence of 2 children...both of whom had
sucking blisters (so did I, my mom says, but I have no idea how I nursed
;-)), and both of whom have always had "sub-optimal shallow" latches. 
:-(  They don't hurt me, but they don't open wide.  Probably b/c of the
massive flow of milk, they don't need to.  I know I noticed that Nyssa
was at least a month old, perhaps more, before she really had to
actually *suckle* in order to feed enough to satisfy her.  Before that,
she flutter-sucked, or half-heartedly sucked a bit to get the MER and
then swallowed the bolus of milk.  I didn't ever feel her actually
creating any negative pressure or doing much to compress the nipple to
get it to squirt out even more.  ;-)

Except with Colstrumof course, which only lasted 36 hours tops, anyhow.

Fio 
ressource person with Allaitement Québec
Mama to Sandrine, 37 mos, and Nyssa, 6 mos, tandem nursing.

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