Nipple Shields
Nipple shields should be reserved for an extremely small minority of unique circumstances. Baby Friendly hospitals restrict the use of pacifiers and bottles, yet moms are often provided with nipple shields that act as a pacifier at the breast when a baby isn’t transferring milk. It is important to stimulate mom’s milk, reduce swelling from IV fluid in mom’s breasts, and allow sleepy/disorganized babies to wake up after birth. But a nipple shield provided immediately after birth can cause a cascade of problems with lactation in the ensuing days.
Resources for Nipple Shields
Complete Topic List
- Bad Feeling with Letdown (DMER)
- Be Present and Avoid Apps
- Birth Control and Breastfeeding
- Biting
- Blebs
- Blood in Diapers
- Blood Streaks in Poop and Oversupply
- Bloody Nipple Discharge
- Bloody Milk
- Bottle Feeding to Get Baby to Sleep Longer
- Bottle Nipples
- Bras
- BRCA and Breastfeeding
- Breast Augmentation (Implants)
- Breastfeeding Basics
- Breast Cancer and Breastfeeding
- Breast Cancer during Pregnancy
- Breast Cancer while Breastfeeding
- Breast Growth
- Breast Lump
- Breast Masses and Conditions
- Breast Reductions
- Breast Surgery or Breast Biopsy
- Breastfeeding and Previous Breast Cancer Treatment
- Breastfeeding Supply List
- Breastfeeding While Pregnant or Undergoing IVF
- Breastmilk Content and Volume
- Breastmilk Research
- Burns on Breast
- Burping
- Calories in Breastmilk
- Cancer Screening during Pregnancy and Lactation
- Choking and Gasping at Breast
- Chronic Diseases
- Chronic Disease or New Onset Illness Impacting Milk Production
- Cleft Palate, Down Syndrome, Other Congenital Conditions
- Clicking
- Clumps In Milk
- Cluster Feeding
- Colic
- Colostrum
- Comfort Feeding
- Conceiving and/or Pregnancy While Breastfeeding
- Cries the Minute We Put Baby Down
- Cries While Feeding
- Cysts
- Galactocele
- Gassy Baby, More at Night
- Gender Affirming Surgery
- General Considerations for Plastic Surgery and Breastfeeding
- General Infant Concerns
- Gigantomastia
- Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts
- Granuloma Annulare
- Granulomatous Mastitis
- Mastitis Granulomatosa Idiopathic – Spanish
- Green Poop and Oversupply
- Growth Curves
- Growth Spurts
- Hair Loss Postpartum
- Hamartoma
- Hand Expression
- Health History and Medications
- Hidradenitis Suppurativa
- “High Lipase” Milk
- “Hindmilk and Foremilk Imbalance” and Baby Weight Gain
- Hives and PUPPP
- Home Scales
- Hospital Or Birthing Center
- Hyperlactation
- Hyperlactation (Oversupply) and Breastfeeding Stools
- Hyperkeratosis (“Warty Nipple”)
- Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis (IGM or GM)
- Mastitis Granulomatosa Idiopathic – Spanish
- If You Feel Silly Doing It…
- If You Have an Older Child at Home
- Increasing Production
- Induced Lactation
- Infant Allergies
- Infant Loss
- Infant Needing Surgery
- Infant Questions
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer Versus Engorgement
- Injectables and Herbs
- “Insufficient Glandular Tissue”
- Inverted Nipples
- Iron
- Irritable Breast Syndrome (IBrS)
- Is Baby Getting Enough?
- Labor
- Lactating Adenoma
- Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM)
- Lactogenesis I: You May Notice Colostrum Production
- Lactiferous Sinuses
- Latch
- Latch and Position
- Leiomyoma
- Letdowns
- Lichenification
- Likes to Be Held
- “Lipstick” Nipple Shape
- Long Feeds
- Lopsided Breasts
- Loud Baby/Baby Noise
- Low Supply
- “Low Supply”: Continued Early Supplementation
- Lymph Nodes
- Lymphedema
- Male Breast Cancer
- Marijuana, Other Recreational Drugs, and Breastfeeding
- Massage
- Mastitis
- Mastitis Granulomatosa Idiopathic – Spanish
- Maternal Health and Illness
- Maternal Questions
- Milk after Weaning
- “Milk Coming In” and Engorgement
- Milk Fistula
- Milk Stasis
- Mondor’s Disease
- Montgomery Glands
- Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Pregnancy
- Mucous Poop and Oversupply
- Mythbusters
- Paget’s Disease
- Pain
- Pain During Breastfeeding
- Pelvic Pain and/or Incontinence
- Periductal Mastitis
- Period/Menstruation Returning
- Pets
- Phlegmon
- Placental Encapsulation
- Plastic Surgery
- “Plugs”
- Poland Syndrome
- Poop Transition After Birth
- Pooping After Childbirth
- Position and Latch: It’s All About the POSITION!
- Postpartum Mom
- Pregnancy and Birth
- Prenatal Breastfeeding Education
- Prenatal Breastfeeding Support
- Probiotics
- Psoriasis
- Pulling Off Breast
- Pump and Dump
- Pumping
- Pumping for Engorgement
- Pumping for 24 Hours
- Sebaceous Cyst
- Seborrheic Keratoses
- Self-Weaning
- Sex Postpartum
- Sick or Hospitalized Infant
- 6 Weeks to 6 Months
- Sleep
- Sleep Training
- Sleeping Through The Night
- Sleepy Baby
- Short Feeds
- Silicone Breast Implant Rupture and Silicone Breast Injections
- Six Months to One Year
- Sleep Regression
- Sleep Training
- Sleepy Baby
- Skin Tags
- Skin to Skin
- Smegma
- SNS (Supplemental Nursing System)
- Solids and Complementary Foods
- Spitting up Blood & Bloody Diapers
- Still Looking Pregnant
- Stop Bottle Nipples
- Stopping Milk Production
- Stretch Marks
- Substances of Abuse
- Surgery and Breastfeeding
- Surgery on Breast or Chest Wall/Lungs/Heart
- Surgical Procedures while Breastfeeding
- Surrogacy
- Swallowing
- Sweating
- Swelling Under Arm (Axillary Breast Tissue)
- Syringe Feeding
