A key to remind us all in considering the likelihood of sore nipples is that breastfeeding is a two-person activity. The mother may have breastfed SEVERAL babies. The new baby, however, is still learning. This may help account for several women's experiences that in spite of THEIR experience, they still got sore. But they were not the only ones involved in the breastfeeding now current. Babies must learn to work with mothers just as surely as their mothers must learn to work with them. When that teamwork is still being refined, some occasional "stepping on of toes, as in learning to dance with a new partner" (an analogy I love because I think it is so relevant) is going to occur. Am off the soapbox; need oxygen... :-) Def. of LC service: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Homewood, IL)- [log in to unmask] WEB PAGE: http://www.mcs.com/~auerbach/lactation.html