In this situation, blood supply gets temporarily cut off to the nipple.Ī few seconds after the feed, sometimes even a few minutes, as the blood flow starts to come back, the pain begins.
Some women may describe the nipple ‘like a new lipstick,’ wedge-shaped, or notice that it has a stripe across it. If the nipple blanching is a result of positioning, then you may find that after feeding, your nipple looks a different shape from the shape it was before the latch. Usually, this is because your baby is latched well on one side and not on the other. Sometimes, only one nipple is getting blanched, and the other one is fine. So look at the information relating to good positioning at the breast. If the latch isn’t a deep one, your nipple is likely getting compressed. The first one can be the way your baby latches at the breast.
There are four possible causes for this blanching. However, if you’re looking at this information, you may be experiencing pain because of this blanching, and it’s important, for your comfort, to identify the cause. If despite this blanching, your nipple then returns reasonably quickly back to its normal color after feeding, and you don’t experience any pain, then this isn’t a problem. If your nipple turns white after feeding, it suggests that the blood flow is being reduced or cut off to your nipple.
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