My poor little buddy!
I've been having some problems with blisters and LOTS of pain while nursing. I saw a lactation consultant yesterday afternoon only to find out that poor Nicolas is tongue-tied! That just means that he can't physically get his tongue far enough out to latch on correctly causing me a lot of pain. He was getting enough to eat though, so that's good. I'm now pumping and using an SNS (milk comes through a tube and he sucks like normal). My wounds are healing and Monday he'll have his tongue clipped to fix the problem. Then he'll be able to get his tongue out far enough. Everything is going ok, but I'm having trouble with my supply. I'm doing some things differently in efforts to improve it. So far I've had enough to keep him satisfied, however, my last pumping only produced a little less than 2 ozs. He's been taking right around 2 and the nurse said he should have about 2 1/2. But he's happy and satisfied with the 2, so I'm ok with that for now. I'll let you know how Monday goes and if nursing resumes to normal. Please keep me in your prayers until then!