Maybe that 2 mil can be used to buy some lanolin? I had a baby in NYC in 2003, and it was a ridiculous struggle to get any. The hospital had none. The lactation consultant had none - she claimed she had no budget to buy any, and she ran out of her samples. I sent my husband looking. After hitting every drug store for three miles, he had to order some, which took a week to come in. So I went home from the hospital with a gigantic tub of formula that I never opened, in a soggy shirt with bloody nipples. Yep, they also didn’t have any nursing pads, and I naively thought that the washable ones would work.

Do you have lanolin at the hospital where you are doing clinicals?