Was it hard to get your baby off the nipple shield? Sometimes I can get him to not need it but other times he just gets so bad and completely freaks out to where I have to put it on. I used it because in the hospital my nipples we're bruised, cracked and bleeding.
When I was breastfeeding, a consultant would call me from Gerber and she offered to have baby feed from breast shield then half way through take it off and continue to feed.