Your baby was born recently. You are breastfeeding and it seems that everything is going well, but there is something that catches your attention and is that small blisters have left his lips. Sometimes they appear on the upper and lower lip, sometimes only on the upper lip and sometimes it only appears in the center of the upper lip, in the small prominence we all have.
You think it will probably be because he has just started using his mouthpiece to breastfeed and is getting used to it, and in part it is so, but he could also respond to other causes, such as a bad grip, and that is why we will try to answer the question: Why are there breastfed babies with blisters on the lips?
The baby has blisters on both lips
If the baby has blisters on the upper lip and also on the lower lip, the mother is most likely to have more or less significant cracks or discomfort in the breast. If you have blisters on both lips is that not taking good breast and, by not doing the suction well and creating the vacuum correctly, try to compensate with the mouth, making more force than usual.
It is true that he had never suckled before and that his lips have to get used to it, but it is also true that the lips are created for that, and should not suffer so much.
In such cases it is important seek help as soon as possible because it is most likely that you are not eating well, you are not sucking enough milk and you will soon begin to show signs that you are hungry. The earlier a proper breastfeeding position is found, the sooner you can eat well of milk, the better the weight will go, and the less pain there will be in the shots.
The baby has a small sore on the upper lip
This is more common, it is also called suction callus and it can also happen in children who take a bottle. In these cases the cause is not the mouth, but the nipple. The baby's lips are prepared to eat, but they do not always adapt well to all the teats, so sometimes they show it to you like that, with blisters that say you are holding the nipple too hard.
In breastfed children, the position of the baby to the breast must also be assessed. The baby usually sucks more or less well, fattening well, but is in an improved position, because it is putting more pressure than necessary with the mouth.
As much as I try, I don't improve the position
In the second case, that of the blister in the center of the upper lip, it may happen that you do not give the final solution. It has happened to some of my children at times, that there were times when they had the blister on the upper lip and there was no way to make it disappear. She alone, over time, becomes a skin that ends up falling by itself. If the stimulus that causes it remains, days later a new blister appears that falls again after days or weeks, until another one reappears.
Sometimes, as I say, it is a baby who has never suckled perfectly, but who is eating well in a slightly better position. On other occasions it responds to other causes, such as a baby's illness. If you are with mucus, with an earache or something bothers you, you can modify the way you suck and, during the days that it is bad, produce the blister.
