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From the study:

“ Although 90% of women report acute breast and nipple pain during the first week of breastfeeding initiation”

“ 30% of women who continue to breastfeed at 2 weeks after birth report persistent breast and nipple pain”

That’s certainly quite different from the suggestion that it’s a year of suffering in the normal case.

Breast feed if you want to, and quit when you want, without worrying about what other people think.

We took a few weeks with child one for mother’s nipples to handle the pain. The biggest issue was psychological for the first 2ish weeks, as we’d been told by some midwives that it will not hurt if you’re latching correctly. Visiting a breastfeeding specialist (for free) at 2ish weeks who told us sometimes the pain is unavoidable but normally goes in 4 to 8 weeks made a huge difference. Weaned completely at 9 months.

With child number 2, basically no pain. Weaned completely at 2 years. Mother is very glad she breastfed both, and was ready to stop when the children were.

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Thats fair. I did not mean to misrepresent the numbers but plainly I did. A significant fraction of women have continuing pain, but not the majority.