There is a super article in the current Practising Midwife - not online
AFAIK : ( - which details a midwife's quest to help solve the problem of
mothers who want to bf, especially their prem babies, but who are reluctant
to remove their nipple rings. Leaving the nipple rings in means these tiny
babies  can't feed....so she eventually discovered a solutiuon in a sex
shop! These shops sell tiny plastic nipple *bars*  with screw on balls at
the ends, worn instead of metal rings, and they can be removed for
sterisling  (unlike the metal rings which are soft metal and cannot be
autoclaved or put in solution.

There is a photograph of a breast with one of these in place. It would not,
I don't think, interfere with bf.

The midwife is Liz Jones of North Staffordshire.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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