Reading Niamh Campbell’s write-up on nursing revived agonizing recollections for me (‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I maintained making an attempt to nurse for as lengthy, 3 September). Nearly 43 years earlier, I as effectively situated nursing agonisingly agonizing. Unlike her, I by no means ever had accessibility to a lactation knowledgeable, and the one suggestions I used to be supplied by well being and wellness specialists was to make use of a nipple space guard, grit my enamel and be decided. I lasted 4 months previous to switching over to formulation, and after that begun to bond with my baby. All these years afterward, there’s nonetheless a light sensation of embarassment that I “failed”.
Barbara Thompson
Sheffield
I can positively hook up with Niamh Campbell’s expertise. I give up breastfeeding when my baby was 20 weeks previous. I had the exact same issues, which completely nothing prepares you for. I remained in ache, with damaged, hemorrhaging nipple areas, and wanted to complement with formulation. I coveted mothers that had milk transferring like purple wine and happy infants. There had been no lactation specialists after that in my neck of the timbers, and likewise had truly there been, I query they would definitely have had the power to assist.
Siobhan McGovern
Edinburgh
