My mom has told me to start "roughing up" my nipples with a washcloth to get them ready for the pain of breastfeeding. That sounds horrible. Please tell me it is a thirty or more year old wives tale and I should just ignore her. She went on to say that she did that and it still hurt her.

I have read that stimulating your nipples later in pregnancy can cause problems. The only other thing that mentions that is if you have inverted nipples to get them to poke out. That's not a problem.

I still have a long way to go before baby is here so I will ask the doctor next visit but I wanted to see what the thought was here.