The Latch Looks Great! 

Below are comments from parents which were gathered on a social media post:

• Your nipples look like a brand new lipstick and feel as though they may fall off if you ever feed your baby again, yet your baby’s latch is great.
• Your baby is coughing, spluttering and refusing to drink from bottle
• Your latch is great when you feel like a cheese grater is attached to your breast and you are convinced a vice would be less painful.
• Bleeding, agonising, lacerated nipples – your latch is great!!!
• Your baby’s latch is great if they stop feeding due to ‘fast letdown’
• Your baby’s red book shows slow or static weight gain, and baby’s latch is great.
• Your shoulders ache as your baby feeds for an hour and comes back to nurse again after a 15 minute break, the latch is great!
• Your baby hasn’t slept in the first 72 hours hours of life for more than 5 minutes at once, your baby’s latch is great.
• Your baby has slept soundly for 8 hours and fed 4 times today, your latch is great.
• You’ve seen no dirty nappies for 3 days, your latch is great.
• Wet nappies are few, but your latch is great.
• Squishing the bottle teat, but latch is amazing!
• Five minute feeds and hour long naps before hunger strikes again, your latch is great.
• You’ve only eaten once today and had no rest between feeds, you’re doing great and so is your latch!
• After a big, wide attachment which you’ve nailed with military precision, your baby slips to the end of your nipple, and so your latch is great.
• No swallowing and lots of sucks, your baby’s latch is great.
• Your baby is being waterboarded from the volume being pulled across from the bottle or breast
• Nipple in babies mouth? Your latch is great!
• Your breast is so swollen-full of milk that your nipple won’t fit in your babies mouth, but your latch is great.