What should I do if my nipples are inverted during breastfeeding?

Inverted nipples often occur during adolescence, when breasts are just developing, girls are shy, and the restraints are too tight, causing inverted nipples. In this case, the nipple can usually be easily squeezed out with a little massage, but in some more serious cases, there is no way to pull it out. It doesn’t seem to affect anything in normal times, so no one cares too much about it. But when we become mothers and need to breastfeed, this problem becomes serious. So what should we do if our nipples are inverted during breastfeeding? Let’s take a look at it together below.

If the nipple is a little inverted and too big for the baby to latch on, there are a few solutions:

(1) You can try nipple covers. If the mother puts on a nipple cover, the child can suck on his own. If the nipple cover is uncomfortable or unacceptable to the child

(2) You can temporarily squeeze out the milk and feed it to your baby with a bottle. When your baby’s mouth grows a little bigger, you may want to postpone feeding the milk and try again to see if your baby can suck the nipple.

(3) For sunken nipples, you can use a breast pump or pull them up yourself. You can do this exercise more often to squeeze out more milk. You can even consider buying a pair of bras that you wear inside your bra. They have a hole on one side of your breast like a shell. The hole is just the right size for the nipple to fit in. The hole is neither too big nor too small. You can wear them for a few hours a day. This will help your nipples stand out more. Some places sell nipple correctors, which can also help.

If you want to maintain your milk supply, you have to express milk frequently, even more than your baby normally eats. Because a breast pump is not as efficient as a baby's mouth, many mothers find it difficult to increase their milk supply if they rely solely on milk pumping.

If the baby does not accept the mother's breast, her milk will gradually become less and less, so she has to increase the frequency of milk expression, more frequently than her baby eats, to maintain her milk supply, and then try again later to see if the baby can latch on to the nipple.

What should I do if my nipples are inverted during breastfeeding? I believe everyone has a certain understanding of this. Here I would like to remind everyone that inverted nipples can easily cause diseases such as nipple areola inflammation and mastitis. If the inverted nipples are not corrected in time, the inflammation will be long-term stimulated, causing the mammary ducts to shrink due to chronic inflammation, and the inverted nipples will become more serious, easily forming a vicious circle. Inverted nipples can seriously affect breastfeeding and cause milk accumulation due to the inability to discharge milk, which may cause secondary breast infection. Therefore, if you have inverted nipples, you must correct them in time.