Reading Niamh Campbell’s write-up on nursing revived agonizing memories for me (‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I maintained attempting to nurse for as long, 3 September). Nearly 43 years earlier, I as well located nursing agonisingly agonizing. Unlike her, I never ever had accessibility to a lactation expert, and the only recommendations I was provided by health and wellness experts was to use a nipple area guard, grit my teeth and be determined. I lasted 4 months prior to switching over to formula, and after that begun to bond with my child. All these years later on, there’s still a mild sensation of embarassment that I “failed”.
Barbara Thompson
Sheffield
I can definitely connect to Niamh Campbell’s experience. I quit breastfeeding when my child was 20 weeks old. I had the very same problems, which absolutely nothing prepares you for. I remained in pain, with broken, hemorrhaging nipple areas, and needed to supplement with formula. I coveted moms that had milk moving like red wine and satisfied babies. There were no lactation specialists after that in my neck of the timbers, and also had actually there been, I question they would certainly have had the ability to aid.
Siobhan McGovern
Edinburgh
