I wish I had known some of this stuff when I was nursing my 2nd one, now 23
yr old.  I had extremely sore nipples (to the point of tears every feed)
for 6 wks, and couldn't stand to nurse past a couple minutes after the MER
slowed. In hindsight, I KNOW I had a yeast infection, but no one knew of
such things then. Consequently, she was a very fussy baby who wouldn't ever
nurse to sleep and pulled  and kneaded the breast like a cat and pinched
constantly - also gained weight slowly until solids at 4 mo.  I finally had
to swaddle her for every feeding, as she would pinch the skin of my breast
and roll it between her fingers - drove me wild!

She weaned to a cup at 10 1/2 mo, and I was ready.  I went on and easily
nursed my 3rd child for 27 mo - never had this problem.

Of all the things in life I would do over, I would have given anything to
redo nursing Kari, with everything I know now,  and have good memories
instead of all that pain.  I always say it was a good thing she was a
planned, much wanted baby or I would have given her away.  She is such a
sweety now, and her 2nd child weaned recently at 17 mo.  So I guess I must
have done something right.

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> From: oster6 <[log in to unmask]>
> To:
> Subject: Pinching Baby
> Date: Wednesday, November 05, 1997 8:52 AM
>
> Felicia,
>
> My third child was a pincher.  It was very painful and uncomfortable.
> What worked for me was, taking a long shoe string and designing a lovely
> necklace with large colorful wooden beads of different shapes to hang
> around my neck during breastfeeding.  Most of the time, the baby chose
> to play with the necklace during feedings instead of pinching me. For
> the arm that wraps around your waist, sometimes I had to position the
> baby with that arm along the baby's side were it would be pinned between
> our bodies.
>
> Good Luck,
> Assunta Osterholt, IBCLC
> So. Suburbs of Chicago
>