Avent Nipple Shields

When my baby was born I had a very difficult time trying to get him latched on to the breast. He just didn't seem to be able to open his mouth wide enough to get latched on. Because my baby was unable to latch on correctly the hospital wouldn't let us go home. During the 4th night of our stay a nurse suggested that we try to feed using a nipple shield. Now, I had heard that nipple shields were bad and they should be avoided at all costs, but no-one could really explain to me why. Anyway I had a go and I couldn't believe it my little boy latched on and started to suckle straight away! The next day we were discharged from the hospital as I was able to ...  Read the complete review

When my daughter was first born, she seemed to have no problems with breastfeeding, I was the one who had the problems. She would start off feeding properly and then would fall asleep and slightly off the breast so she would just be sucking on the nipple when she woke to carry on feeding. I didn't realise this was happening and before long my nipples were very cracked and sore. I carried on with the breast feeding as she was a good feeder but they were getting worse at every feed. As I was still in hospital after a caesarian (written up in different opinion) one of the midwives told me about nipple shields. Her very words were, 'use them for 48hrs at the most and ...  Read the complete review