Comfort feeding!

[UmmInayah]

Hi guys,

Do you comfort feed on one breast in particular? Or do you alternate according to which one you last fed so bubba gets the hindmilk?

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[secondtimearound2]

My boy is 10 months and we both enjoy the left side more. I do still give the right but it is always after the left. I'll probably end up lop sided :laughing: .

When he was younger I used to alternate from one full feed on the left.............then the next full feed off the right. This is what worked for us.

[UmmInayah]

HI secondtime

Yeah, I do the same with my little one! One breast each feed, but I comfort feed from the left mainly! I prefer holding her in that position and she attaches so much easier on the left.

[cheezelz]

DD always takes both sides. Each feed I alternate which side I start from. If she needs bit of comfort feeding I let her do that on the 2nd side after she has drained the first.

[BB78]

I alternate but yes the Left is most comfy and easier, prob coz i'm right handed lol
He get each breast each feed, and he prefers the Right as for some reason my left breast is heavier and fuller and bigger.. I have odd boobs. lol

[nemosmum]

Yep My bub loves a comfort feed especially now shes started teething

For the first feed of the day its always the right side....but all other feeds are from the left

[neostudded]

At the moment I left Julius comfort feed from 'the less sore nipple', But I try to mix it up a little.The other day he latched on for a comfort feed, got bowel pains, stiffened up his back and ripped his head back.He didnt left go of my nipple, he pulled so far back it came out of his mouth :eek: :crying: (It really hurt)...for the next hour it was the dummy for him!! :shame:

[ZooKeeper]

Starfish prefers the right, when she's tired she'll whinge on the left side, pull back, carry on, right side is usually the 'calm' boob -- it is also bigger almost permanently now to the left cause it gets used more.

how do you ladies end a comfort feed? I find if I detach her with the finger to the side of the mouth when she's fallen asleep, she will wake up grizzly, and stay grizzly until she has a feed where she detaches herself rather than gets detached. last night was a horror because all she wanted to do was sleep on the boob, abd she grizzled every time she woke up because I had to detach her at the end of every feed she was so soundly asleep.

thank god, this morning she took herself off at the end of a feed and went to sleep NOT on the boob afterwards, and now she's back to her happy non-grizzly self, last feed was on-feed-took herself off with a satisfied sigh.

dontcha just love those feeds, where baby comes off with a happy satisfied little sigh (and often the little dribble of milk on the cheek too). gets me in that place in my heart where it's all watery.:) :babydust2: that's when it feels most real that I am feeding her and it is going well.

[ZooKeeper]

one more question on this subject, has anyone else found CHNs, Karitane line, and sometimes DH's are generally opposed to comfort feeds? I've come across so many folks want to tell me I am doing the wrong thing by allowing them.

the alternative -- screaming, chesty, miserable baby, is one I just can't take. she is a much happier bub if I let her do her thing most of the time, though I have to end a feed if she's really soundly asleep and just using me as a dummy after a while, because my back won't take it no matter where I sit, also the boob suffers too if that happens too much. I have an old spinal injury which is playing up now. feeding lying down is comfier, but then she really likes to fall asleep and stay locked on, so I get no sleep till she's back in her own bed. good for that afternoon nap time when otherwise she will not sleep and all that matters to me is that she does so she is happy again.

[MrsDribbleDrawers]

one more question on this subject, has anyone else found CHNs, Karitane line, and sometimes DH's are generally opposed to comfort feeds? I've come across so many folks want to tell me I am doing the wrong thing by allowing them.


I don't do CHN's etc, but get plenty of comments from other mums at school, rellies etc "making a rod for your own back" is usually the gist of it, but we co-sleep, and comfort feed, and have a happy healthy bub!! I wouldn't want the alternative!!

[UmmInayah]

I haven't come across that before. No one tells me not to comfort feed.

Today DD is only comfort feeding it seems. Can never tell when she is hungry or not.