Sore nipple help

I'm 4 days in a my nipples are in absolute agony, I'm wearing silver cups but they don't seem to be helping. I really really want to continue and don't want to express, can anyone offer any advise on how to help (I'm waiting on a referral to the infant team and trying to work really hard on our latch but thinking in the mean time)

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I used the silver cups and organic nipple balm mainly but also putting a warm wet towel on them to soothe between feeds. It does get better! It’s painful but keep feeding, it will help your nipples adjust. They’re numb now 😆 xx

Nipple balm and just riding it out is the only thing that worked for me! I promise it does get better ❤️

I did nipple shields and they helped me go on, and a few weeks in I was EBF. They're likely not as efficient in terms of flow, but helped with latch hurting on one side and small nipple on the other side. It was a bit of a hassle to drop them later, I dropped them only at month 3.

After feeding make sure your nipples are completely dry, leave them to air out a little, if they are sore and wet they won’t heal. Try warm compresses and then cold compresses and alternate. And a good nipple balm. I’m 8 weeks in now but I was in agony for the first few weeks, I had such a bad cut on one nipple so I only fed on one side for 24 hours to let the other nipple heal a little and it helped so much x

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