They all lie, it's a big fat lie. They lie to you. Something is wrong with you, if you were in the middle of nowhere your babii would be dead. And that would be ok if it were just your genes you were cutting off but it's not you it's someone else now and hopefully they don't have your messed up genes.
How are you supposed to remember and get everything right? Line up the nose with the nipple, stomach of babii needs to be against body of mom, point your nipple up, move the babii's head to breast not your breast to babii, hold nipple in C or U hold, get an asymmetric latch (more below the nipple than above in the babii's mouth), lips flanged out, lift his head up and over the nipple and remember if there is any clicking unlatch and start again. And if you don't do everything as prescribed it's gonna hurt.
Let me tell you that babii's mouth never opens as wide as in the videos, especially when they are sleepy. Your nipples are probably not long and pointy like the women they find for the videos, rubbing your nipple on their lips to get them to open up only works when their fists are ahead of your nipple, same with stroking their cheeks (oh, and if their own hand is rubbing their cheeks they might also turn their heads for that), plus everything can look good on the outside (as my Lactation Consultant will attest) but the babii's tongue still won't do the right thing and rub your nipples raw or he will have a chewing action that you have to live with and tell yourself that as long as he is biting the areola raw and not the nipple it's ok because the areola is skin and skin is supposed to be tough.
And they tell you not to watch TV while you are breastfeeding so you can bond with your babii but you will want to watch TV or listen to the radio while you are feeding so you can distract yourself from the pain or the gnawing. I will listen to politicos and their stupid ideas on the economy to distract me from that sandpaper tongue. That way you can also forget that your little bundle of joy can put up such a fight while he is crying in hunger. It's hard to bond with someone who causes you pain so just watch the TV or you will grow frustrated with nursing and, God forbid, the babii.
But thank God that you don't have flat or inverted nipples or that your babii doesn't have a cleft palate because then you would really be in s#!@.
And I think that the women at the breastfeeding support group forget this period. They tell you keep at it it will get better with some help. I have a feeling that none of the things they tell you actually help, it just takes for the babii to be older before he is able to breastfeed correctly and your nipples to toughen up so you don't feel any pain. You just have to power through the first few weeks until he is coordinated enough to breastfeed correctly. And they don't tell you this because they think if they give us these tips and tricks we will think that it is helping and we will keep at it and at some point things will work out.
Dear God, please let my nipples toughen up soon. I will keep doing all the things I am supposed to do just please help me out here.
