Co-sleeping and BF

I have a logistical question...

How do you swap sides? Do you just nurse off one side all night long?


TIA,
maureen

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I have a logistical question...

How do you swap sides? Do you just nurse off one side all night long?

Sometimes I would cradle the baby and roll over with them on top of me.
Most of the time I sort of climbed/hopped over the baby.

Some people can nurse from the top breast. I could never do that.


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wrote:
I have a logistical question...

How do you swap sides? Do you just nurse off one side all night long?


TIA,
maureen



for me, i can't get into feeding lying down until the baby is at least 6
weeks. also, i have small breasts (B cup).

when my boys were very small, i would feed one side and then turn the
other way in bed & lift him over me to feed the other side. we have a
bedrail on my side of the bed.

but by about 4-5 months, i would only sleep one way (baby in middle,
adults on outsides) and i feed from bottom breast then twist a little
bit to feed from the top breast. i need to hold the top breast with my hand.

but now (youngest is 8 mths) i mainly feed from the bottom breast only.
my babies prefer that one as it is the better producer.

HTH.

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elizabeth (in australia)
mum to DS1 "fluffy" (3.75 yrs) & DS2 "gorgey" (8 mths)


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You still going to breats feed'em when they are 16?

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I have a logistical question...

How do you swap sides? Do you just nurse off one side all night long?


It wasn't something I ever did except for the odd occasion, so I'm probably
not the right person to answer - but now that my daughter is a heavy 23
month old and likes switching sides all the time when she's in bed for the
morning feed, I can't be bothered changing positions, so I feed from the top
breast. At that age though, they really just latch themselves :-)


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wrote:
I have a logistical question...

How do you swap sides? Do you just nurse off one side all night long?


TIA,
maureen

I either lean over and nurse from the top breast or I hold her to my
chest and roll over.

MoNtwrks writes:

I have a logistical question... How do you swap sides? Do you just nurse
off one side all night long?

Don't think anybody's mentioned what I did, which was to turn myself and
him so that our heads were at the foot end - we used a bedside cot (three
sided cot, the open side abutting our bed), so that way he could stay in
it, whichever side we were feeding from, rather than ending up in between
DH and me in the big bed (where we still had a duvet which I wanted to keep
away from him). Once he got bigger, I was able to feed from either side
without moving us, as others have said, but I couldn't do that at the
beginning.

Sidheag
DS Colin Oct 27 2003

"Workingmom" wrote in message
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Miss Glamour skrev:
You still going to breats feed'em when they are 16?


Months - certainly.

What else?

Gee - I've got no idea what *breats* are anyway

My little DS is still *breast*feeding like a champ at 22 months old and
there's no sign of him weaning yet

Amanda

wrote:

I have a logistical question...

How do you swap sides? Do you just nurse off one side all night long?

Up until recently, DS2 was feeding off both breasts while I was on my
right side (so he's in the middle of the bed). Just took a bit of
adjustment of angle for each of us (I've been propping mine and his back
with wads of covers, and that helps a lot.)

This past week, though, he's decided he doesn't wanna. First he
wouldn't nurse off the bottom boob, and last night he was screaming so
much I had my husband check to see if I had accidentally broken his arm
or something! I'm really not looking forward to months and months more
of having to sit up to night nurse.
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Cheri Stryker

mom to DS1 - 7 yrs, and DS2 - 3.5 months

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How do you swap sides? Do you just nurse off one side all night long?


I've always held baby to my chest and turned us both over.

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Arwen (3 years)
Milo (5/7/06)