Hello to all,

I was hoping to get some suggestions from your collective experiences.  
I've been helping a mom who spent the first month of her baby's life 
breastfeeding/cracking & bleeding/pumping to heal/breastfeeding again, 
etc.  To make a long story short, baby's tongue was snipped two days ago 
and now mom and baby are learning to nurse all over again.

Mom's nipples are very soft and evert very little with stimulation.  For 
better or worse, baby gets milk out whether he's latched on properly or 
not.  Baby had been using the classic cone-shaped nipple prior to snip 
because baby couldn't latch onto wide-base nipple (no surprise).  In the 
two days since the snip, mom developed a tiny blood-filled blister on the 
face of one nipple and a fissure at the edge of the face of the other 
nipple.  Both nipples are painful pink but no itching to indicate thrush.

It seems that mom is having a really rough time getting baby to latch 
deeply enough.  Baby is snugged under opposite breast, gets nice and close 
to latch, but no cigar.  The "nipple sandwich" helps a bit but it's just 
hard for baby to get a mouthful from such a soft mushy nipple.  Any 
suggestions for getting a flat mushy nipple deeper into a frustrated 
baby's mouth?

TIA,

Debbie Gillespie, IBCLC, LLLL
Tempe, AZ

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