Gerber Soothing Gel Patches

I agree that these gel pads feel absolutely wonderful on sore cracked nipples. However, you can buy something called Second Skin Moist
Burn Pads for much less $, and I think they work a bit better even. The lactation consultants at the hospital gave them to me, I bought the Gerber ones, but found the Second Skin pads to be cheaper and nicer. Hope that helps someone! (You can get the pads at Target or places like that.)

My first son took to breastfeeding like a champ from the get-go. I never experienced sore nipples with him. My second son is a whole different story though. For some reason my second son just didn't want to open his mouth wide enough to get a good latch on, so that made for excruciatingly sore nipples for me for about the first two weeks of nursing. It was torture - pure torture. A nurse at the hospital gave me these gel patches to help with my sore nipples and I must say, I don't know what I would have done with out them (I probably would have given up on breastfeeding). I tried the nipple cream and that did help a bit, but these gel patches are really what made breastfeeding manageable for me. I healed faster wearing them than I did with the nipple cream. If you put the patches in the fridge for a couple of minutes then put them on they feel really great.

This is a wonderful product and I attribute them to getting over that huge breastfeeding hurtle for the first two...Read more

these were definitely soothing and much better than the platex version, which are gooey and messy, but these weren't quite as good at the Medela brand and don't even come close to the relief of the Ameda Hydrogels and don't last nearly as long.
definitely spend the few extra dollars to get the Ameda ComfortGel pads - one set of those lasts about a week, which ends up being more than a whole box of these.