I think it has to do how comfortable a mother is when feeding and how the baby reacts. Six children and different feeding styles from the same breast, maybe ageing one at the end ones.

Think indeed that nipple size isn’t of much influence on successful breastfeeding, whether it is inverted or not has probably far more impact.

Just like breast size doesn’t dictate who will or won’t be able to breastfeed.

I would be interested to read the journal.

Must admit I’d never really thought about ths.

I know that all research is just a starting point and can be linked to other findings although pointing out the obvious can be a timely study and it’s mighty frustrating. Hopefully now they can delve deeper.

The study has basically said what we already knew. If you can breastfeed than great!

If you can you can. If you can’t oh well. No sense beating yourself up about your own anatomy.

Nup sorry this do not sound that scientific or note worthy to me.

I wouldn’t worry about this. If you can feed you can feed if not then there are formulas. We can’t do anything about our varying shapes and we shouldn’t worry about them either.

Interesting results. I have large nipples and didn’t have breast feeding issues

Interesting findings And I thought that the size does not matter

This doesn’t sound very scientific.

The findings are good news for all women when breastfeeding.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 01 Jul 2018 , 8:07 am

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  I am not surprise by the finding about the variations in genders.

I don’t think it would make all that much difference.

All babies are different and so are nipples with each pregnancy, after 4 I’ve never seen my nipples stay the same haha all babies still fed.

I’m sure babies can work it out with their mumma’s whether small or large..lol

Considering babies need to enclose all of the nipple in their mouths to breastfeed, I guess bigger nipples might have issues.