How do you know you have a good latch? Once you have done it for a while, you’ll just know. You’ll also learn to recognize a kind of weird sigh that many babies have when they get it right. Before that . . . it is useful to have someone else look and tell you. The internet will tell you that if you have a good latch, nursing will not hurt. More on this later, but for now, know that early on, this is often not true. For many women, breastfeeding will hurt for the first couple of weeks whether the baby is latched well or not, so you cannot reliably use pain as a signal.
