[peanutsmommy28]

does anyone have any breast feeding advice? i'm having such a hard time with it. i didn't do it right in the hospital, i guess. the nurse showed me how, but i didn't let my daughter get enough of the areola in her mouth, so my nipples got really really sore, now every time i do it (i know she gets enough in now), it hurts sooo bad. she's only five days old, so maybe it is just both of us still getting used to it. they had me do the football hold in the hospital, but i decided to change positions and it got better on the one nipple, but now i can't use my other nipple at all it is so sore. i even started bleeding yesterday. instead of milk coming out, it was just blood! any ideas on more comfortable positions?

also, she falls asleep eating after about fifteen minutes, so i have to feed her a lot more often so she gets enough, so my nipples seem to get overworked from that too. i've tried and tried to keep her awake, but she just loves her sleep (at night she sleeps a lot and tends to eat more during each feeding only every 3 or 4 hours, and during the day she eats a lot less a lot more often, lucky me).