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Nipple Shields

Fail

Demand is soft, at -5.4% this quarter, so Nipple Shields is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 46% of 638 Baby Products niches · +1 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£279K/yr364K searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
63%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 36 sellers

Flapen Score

Nipple Shields against its category

The dotted line is the Baby Products average. Past it, Nipple Shields is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Nipple Shields market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Nipple Shields 364K times last year and spent an estimated £279K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 364K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £279K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
364K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.4%
Conversion, latest week
7.6%
Market size, estimated
£279Ka year
Peak month
January1.2× the quietest month
Top search term
nipple shields for breastfeeding209K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.06.

Listings sell for £10.06 on average, from £4.93 to £21.73. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 25K to 30K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At £10.06 that is £15K to £20K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.06under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.93–£21.73
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
25K–30K
Units per listing a year
1,500–2,000
Revenue per listing a year
£15K–£20K
Returns
2.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 12.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #130 within Nursing & Feeding. It carries 5,247 reviews at 4.18 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
12.4%
Average rank
#130in Nursing & Feeding
Average rating
4.18 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
5,247per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
43 months

Products

Top Nipple Shields products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 18, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£28K£56K£84K£111K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 rising

Sellers

36

Est. top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

16%

  • Medela40%
  • MAM22%
  • Lansinoh10%
  • momcozy5%
  • KOALA BABYCARE4%
  • Luxemum4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 16%)

Demand

Nipple Shields search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

8K6KPrime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Search terms

Top Nipple Shields search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • nipple shields for breastfeeding209K/yr
  • nipple shields62K/yr
  • mam nipple shields for breastfeeding20K/yr
  • nipple shield18K/yr
  • nippleshield10K/yr
  • mam nipple shields8K/yr
  • nipple covers breastfeeding5K/yr
  • nipple guards breastfeeding4K/yr
  • breastfeeding nipple shields4K/yr
  • breast feeding nipple shields4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Nipple Shields

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

16%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
20%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
2.3%of orders come back
“Far too big”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”20% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Nipple Shields questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data