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Title: Uncomfortable, resulting in cracked nipples
Review: With my first child, I used the Ameda Purely Yours pump, which has all hard parts. I now have another child who refuses to latch, so I needed a more powerful pump and opted for the Medela Freestyle pump, which came with these shields. Pumping was immediately painful and I ended up with bleeding, cracked nipples.I switched back to the Ameda and purchased, upon the advice of a lactation consultant, the hard Medela shields in size 27mm.I have relatively small nipples that aren't flat, but aren't huge. The 27mm doesn't hurt, but it does weigh me down a lot and seems to be too large, so I am going to try the 24mm in the hard plastic. I also noticed with both the softfit shields and the hard 27mm shields, I am getting more clogged ducts. I hope this will be resolved with the 24mm.In short, although I'm not positive this is the cause, if you have inverted or flat-ish nipples, I would avoid these shields.
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