Anyone else’s nipple look like this? I’m 37 weeks and it still hasn’t popped out, I’ve tried shields and pumping( under doctors orders)

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Are you concerned for breastfeeding purposes? If so, dont be.  I actually just attended a breastfeeding class at my hospital and one of the things that they mentioned was ANY type of nipple can breastfeed. This is because baby wont be sucking on the nipple itself, but most of the areola, so whether you have protruding nipple, flat, or inverted, your baby will be able to suckle

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Mine looks exactly like this. 4 lactation consultants later and I had to end the journey. He couldn’t latch at all and the nipple shield fell off. Shield wouldn’t stay on at all to my flat nipples.. they said the only way I can get the nipple up to have him latch is to pump... so I did but I didn’t produce enough for his jaundice. We supplemented and now he’s exclusively formula fed cuz i didn’t produce enough or was able to get my nipple out for him to latch.... we spent 2 days in the hospital trying to correct his latch but the consultants said it was pointless. Can’t correct a latch when there’s nothing to latch to.

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My left was like that and it popped after I had my daughter like weeks/ months after I would have to pinch the corner of that nipple to stick it in her mouth to breastfed. She like the right more but I would feed her sometimes off that one but pumped it more and it did finically pop out lol

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My nipples look like yours and my girl couldn’t suck. I tried a nipple shield but it just kept falling off. I tried pumping but only got 15 to 20ml out of each breast and it wasn’t enough for her so after 2 weeks of pumping and supplementing with formula we just used formula and everyone was much happier. I will also note I had breast implants with a lift so was advised breast feeding would be slim - I didn’t produce a lot of milk which may have been why she couldn’t suck. I did see a breast feeding consultant at the hospital and she didn’t have much faith that breastfeeding would work out for me.

Anyone else’s nipple look like this? I’m 37 weeks and it still hasn’t popped out, I’ve tried shields and pumping( under doctors orders)

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