Refusing left side
 

DS (2.5 months old) has refused to nurse on my left side for 12 hours
now, since 9:00 this morning. He is clearly hungry yet cries and acts
very annoyed when I offer the left side and will not latch, but then
nurses eagerly off the right side. What is going on? I've tried
football hold to no avail (only position I've ever used before is cradle
hold.) I'm getting uncomfortable and will have to pump before going to
bed.
--
Cheryl S.
Mom to Julie, 2 yr., 7 mo.
And Jaden, 2 months

Cleaning the house while your children are small is like
shoveling the sidewalk while it's still snowing.

Refusing left side
 

Cheryl S. wrote:

DS (2.5 months old) has refused to nurse on my left side for 12 hours
now, since 9:00 this morning. He is clearly hungry yet cries and acts
very annoyed when I offer the left side and will not latch, but then
nurses eagerly off the right side. What is going on?

Can you nurse lying down? I think it's ear infections that
can make lying on one side more uncomfortable.

Phoebe :)
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Refusing left side
 

"Cheryl S." wrote in message
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DS (2.5 months old) has refused to nurse on my left side for 12 hours
now, since 9:00 this morning. He is clearly hungry yet cries and acts
very annoyed when I offer the left side and will not latch, but then
nurses eagerly off the right side. What is going on? I've tried
football hold to no avail (only position I've ever used before is cradle
hold.) I'm getting uncomfortable and will have to pump before going to
bed.
--
Cheryl S.
Mom to Julie, 2 yr., 7 mo.
And Jaden, 2 months

Cleaning the house while your children are small is like
shoveling the sidewalk while it's still snowing.



Sorry I know I shouldn't laugh, I hope you have him feeding on that side
again, but when I read your post I read 2.5 years instead of months. I was
sitting here trying to picture feeding a 2.5 year old in football hold! What
a twit :-) (me not you).

Refusing left side
 

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"Cheryl S." wrote:

DS (2.5 months old) has refused to nurse on my left side for 12 hours
now, since 9:00 this morning. He is clearly hungry yet cries and acts
very annoyed when I offer the left side and will not latch, but then
nurses eagerly off the right side. What is going on? I've tried
football hold to no avail (only position I've ever used before is cradle
hold.) I'm getting uncomfortable and will have to pump before going to
bed.

Something is making him uncomfortable whe he's held that way. Ear infection?
Sore mouth? A bruise somewhere?

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Refusing left side
 

Phoebe & Allyson wrote in message
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Can you nurse lying down? I think it's ear infections that
can make lying on one side more uncomfortable.

Haven't tried lying down yet. Could never get it to work with DD so
haven't bothered trying yet with DS. If it's an ear infection, I'm
really surprised, since he hasn't had a cold or even the sniffles. We
just were at the doctor a day and a half before (I suspected reflux) and
she looked in his ears then. Anyway, thankfully he did take the left
side for his 4:00am feeding last night and I am looking more normal now
(the left one was about twice as big as the right by then! - even though
I had pumped almost 4 oz before going to bed)
--
Cheryl S.
Mom to Julie, 2 yr., 7 mo.
And Jaden, 2 months

Cleaning the house while your children are small is like
shoveling the sidewalk while it's still snowing.

Refusing left side
 

Judy King wrote in message
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Sorry I know I shouldn't laugh, I hope you have him feeding
on that side again, but when I read your post I read 2.5 years
instead of months. I was sitting here trying to picture feeding
a 2.5 year old in football hold! What a twit :-) (me not you).

LOL. How *do* you hold a 2.5 year old? I'm trying to picture nursing
DD and having trouble.
--
Cheryl S.
Mom to Julie, 2 yr., 7 mo.
And Jaden, 2 months

Cleaning the house while your children are small is like
shoveling the sidewalk while it's still snowing.

Refusing left side
 

Chookie wrote in message
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Something is making him uncomfortable whe he's held that
way. Ear infection? Sore mouth? A bruise somewhere?

He *always* ends up slumped to his right when he falls asleep sitting up
(the only way he'll sleep during the day) - maybe he had a stiff neck in
that direction?
--
Cheryl S.
Mom to Julie, 2 yr., 7 mo.
And Jaden, 2 months

Cleaning the house while your children are small is like
shoveling the sidewalk while it's still snowing.

Refusing left side
 

"Cheryl S." wrote in message ...
Judy King wrote in message
...
Sorry I know I shouldn't laugh, I hope you have him feeding
on that side again, but when I read your post I read 2.5 years
instead of months. I was sitting here trying to picture feeding
a 2.5 year old in football hold! What a twit :-) (me not you).

LOL. How *do* you hold a 2.5 year old? I'm trying to picture nursing
DD and having trouble.

Not in a football hold! Kivi nurses in the more traditional cradle
hold. She's not 2.5 yet, though, 'only' 23 months. It's actually
easier nursing a toddler, because they know just what to do!

Cathy Weeks
Mommy to Kivi Alexis 12/01

Refusing left side
 

Cathy Weeks wrote:
"Cheryl S." wrote in message ...

Judy King wrote in message
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Sorry I know I shouldn't laugh, I hope you have him feeding
on that side again, but when I read your post I read 2.5 years
instead of months. I was sitting here trying to picture feeding
a 2.5 year old in football hold! What a twit :-) (me not you).

LOL. How *do* you hold a 2.5 year old? I'm trying to picture nursing
DD and having trouble.


Not in a football hold!

Is that only due to getting the space behind you? Otherwise I don't see
why not?

Dawn

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Dawn Lawson wrote in message news:jrpwb.482938$6C4.480612@pd7tw1no...
Cathy Weeks wrote:
"Cheryl S." wrote in message ...

Judy King wrote in message
...

Sorry I know I shouldn't laugh, I hope you have him feeding
on that side again, but when I read your post I read 2.5 years
instead of months. I was sitting here trying to picture feeding
a 2.5 year old in football hold! What a twit :-) (me not you).

LOL. How *do* you hold a 2.5 year old? I'm trying to picture nursing
DD and having trouble.


Not in a football hold!

Is that only due to getting the space behind you? Otherwise I don't see
why not?

The space behind you is an issue, certainly, but for me, it's also
because you have to help support her head and shoulders to raise her
up enough to reach your breast and toddlers are HEAVY- or else slouch
down to get the boob in her mouth. In the cradle hold, her butt and
body are resting on your lap, automatically raised up. She still rests
her head on my arm, but it's a lot less that way - at least for us.

Cathy Weeks
Mommy to Kivi Alexis 12/01