Uneven supply

[Tadpole]

Hiya,

My question is two-fold...

I am breastfeeding and keeping a log of times/length & from which boob. We had a few latching problems at the beginning on the left (she seems to prefer the right) and she had lost weight again on her 6 day appt. However, after 24 hours of intensive feeding sessions she had gained 160g. (woohoo). Anyway, it appears my right boob is producing more milk than my left.

Should I be worried? Does it matter? It isn't a huge difference really - she just gets more milk from the right and it seems to fill up quicker.

Or am I over-thinking this???

My left also has a massive crack - it runs around about a quarter of the nipple & is about 1mm deep and is quite wide. How long should it take to heal - coz it REALLY hurts. And will it heal with her still feeding on it?

Thanks

 

[Squiglet]

Sounds normal... Lil miss often preferred the right boob rioja to the left booby chateu but she got over it... the way I did it was to only feed her from one boob at night.... and you can tell its all been worth wile because that 160g is all your hard work

As for the crack They hurt but will heal. Try putting lashings of lanoish on you nipple every day after every feed...

 

[ASD123456]

I had the same thing with Rudy at the beginning but he preffered the left side. It all settled a few weeks ago and now he seems to slightly prefer the other side. The supply difference shouldn't be a problem, I think mine differ slightly too.

As Squiglet mentioned, Lansinoh for the cracked nipple. Only thing I found with it was, even though you can leave it on your nipples when feeding, it made them slippery so LO couldn't latch so I would just wipe them before feeding to solve this.

Alex xx

 

[keli]

My right boob seems to make more milk than my left. I thinks it's because i got really bad blisters on my left nip so i think i prob put Coop on the right more often then it turned into a crack.. painful. So yeah all normal as the other ladies have said def get some cream and the crack should heal it does take a couple of weeks but it def gets better xx