06/17/2026
She had seen two different providers in those three weeks. Both looked at the latch. Both said it looked fine and told her some discomfort in the early days was to be expected and that it would get easier.
By the time she came to FreedomDoc Westfield she had spent 21 days dreading every feed. She had started timing how long she could make herself go between nursing sessions. She was two days away from stopping entirely.
The issue was not the latch. The latch was fine. The issue was a shallow oral restriction her baby had that was creating friction during the transfer that no amount of repositioning was going to fix. It was visible in the first assessment. It had a name. It had a referral pathway. It was addressable. It had just never been looked for.
Pain during breastfeeding is not a requirement. It is a signal. A physician who has enough time in the room with you can tell the difference between discomfort that resolves on its own and pain that is pointing at something specific that needs attention.
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