My boobs need your tips

Ladies, and friends with breasts! I am pumping every 3 hours, and my boobs are SORE, like to the touch, the nipple and areola are so sore you could drag a cloth across it and I would wince, i don’t have cracked or bleeding nipples, I used the correct flange size for my pump, but my breasts are just painful and soreeee, anyone else go through this and have advice? I have no mom friends to ask, so I’m hoping someone here has a suggestion lol

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Have you tried nipple shields? When I started BF my nipples were exactly like this, I couldn’t even put the towel over them after a shower 😩 I used nipple shields for 2 weeks to give them a chance to recover and then they just got better and haven’t had a problem since xx

@Madeleine I haven’t! But I will try this, thank you so much 🥰

Try organic coconut oil on your flange so it reduces the friction of the pump and its perfect safe for baby and does wonders for the nipple pain. I used to dread pumping because of the pain.

Also ice could help!

Yes! I went through this a couple times especially in the beginning. My lactation consultant and my doula said to leave a bit of milk on the nipple and areola to dry and it would start helping and healing it and sure enough it did. Eventually I just kept doing it to prevent that feeling from cominh back

I used a nipple butter before pumping so there was less friction. I also noticed that my hands free pump was gentler than my plug in pump but the output was about the same.

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