Does your bfing baby/toddler do this too?

Right now, I'm feeding Jazz her morning feed and she is on my left, and has her hand down my top and holding onto (groping LOL) my right boob!

Does anyone else's bub do this? It's cute I think (except when she pinches my nipple :doh:), but some people find it a bit confronting and act all funny like its really unusual??? Including two people who have breastfed their kids to 12 months (but not past, I only know one IRL and thats my mum, but thats another story lol). I think jazz started a few months ago, she may or may not have been 12 months :dunno: can't remember exactly.

It's not like I have my other side hanging out, Jazz just likes to hold on and make sure it doesn't fly off I suppose ROFL!!!

So, make me feel normal, because I'm SURE theres other bubs/toddlers out there who have a grope while they're feeding!!!!!!

My DD is a little bit younger than yours... she hasn't groped my other boob yet BUT she ALWAYS gropes my nipples and gives me nipple cripples and laughs!!!! It really hurts!!! :o haha it is pretty cute though....i'm saying "noooo" but she just thinks its even funnier :rolleyes:

In China with my family earlier this year we were walking through the thousand year old Buddhist Grotto at Dazu near Chonqing. There, meters high, carved into the rock wall was a mother feeding her young child (looked maybe 3 or 4 years old) The child was standing up, feeding from one breast and twiddling the nipple on the other side.

I could so relate! So, yes, I think children have been doing this since time began. To me, it was like nails on a chalkboard - and I quickly put a stop to it. (Twiddling - not breastfeeding - that kept going for many years!)

That's ridiculous that anyone would find that confronting... or maybe I'm just unusual. I think it's cute.

DS 3 is still very possessive of my boobs, even though he hasn't been breastfed since he was 12 months, and when he was little and breastfeeding he would do similar things. And he still pats me there if he gets a chance. It's completely not sexual. To him it's like cuddling a comforter. That is all. What is inappropriate is other's that think it is somehow sexual. And no I don't encourage him but I don't make a big deal out of it, as he's only patting etc if he were still groping I'd probably tell him not to as I'd find it damn annoying LOL!

I watched a friend's DS (ages about 20months) do this once and i swear, he was very knowlingly triggering a stronger letdown. He would twiddle for a bit, then sigh and suck quietly for a few moments, then back for a little twiddle (keeping his hand on the other boob but still in between). I admit i find it annoying too, but you have to admire a little technician working the equipment so expertly :)

Shanti, OUCH at the nipple cripples, Jazz gives mine a go sometimes, especially at night if I'm shirtless!

LOL Barb, I just had to go google that image, hahaha cute!

Rouge, I know what you mean. I assume they find it confronting with their tone when they say "uh, don't you find that a bit weird?"
:rolleyes: Uh, no, in fact I'd never taken much notice until you felt the need to comment...
It's been playing on my mind since I got back from our time away, I guess I've noticed it a bit more since then.

Leash = same here and I hate it actually.
Interesting point paradise lost = that never occurred to me!

Mia does this to me every chance she sees my naked BB's. Shes been FF since 6 weeks old. I think its just a kid thing.. :)

My ds, when he was breastfed, would play with the other one. Not with the nipple, just the breast as a whole. He's no longer breastfed( for about a yr now ;( ) and when I pick him up his hands quite often go down my top or he'll pull it down to see my boobs. Cute but frustrating especially in public

My Dd did the same thing. I fed both her and my Ds3 till 21 months (and 9 days for dd) I didn't like it so would stop her lol..

but yeh she groped and carried on lol.

DD smacks the boobie (sometime a little harder than I would like :lol:) for an increased let down and DS still sticks his hand down my top between my boobs as a comfort thing. I don't think it is unusual - the breasts are comforting. As an ample busted woman, many babies settle beautifully on my *cushions* - that's their job ;)

DS2 not so much, though he does punch the side he is on with the arm closest to me.
But DS1 used to do it all the time, you dont mind so much at home but out and about is another story.

Yep. DS is always sticking his hands down my top and likes to twiddle when feeding. It bugs me:lol:
He is also quite proprietal - waves bye-bye when I put my bra on:p

DD slaps my boob too on the side she is feeding on.... I didn't realise that was them trying to get a faster let down happening? I thought it was just her mucking around!!
LOL! My DH would come into the room and say "what was that slap?" haha

I have put a stop to it with my kids....

My cousin breastfed and let her DD play with the other breast.... she kept doing it years after being fed, anywhere and everywhere. She would just put her hand down her top and pinch. It did look wierd.
But she now does it to anyone. And I find that gross. She has done it me when I was feeding H, and mum just laughed. I dont see how a 3 yr old groping other women is right??? She grabbed my DD, who has developing little breats buds, and it hurt. Mum said nothing, she thinks its fine.

To me, personally, I dont think teaching children that touching private parts is ok on other people. So I just dont let it start, then have to try and stop it later on when it starts to get a little weird.
Had I not seen this type of nipple playing, it probably wouldn't bother me, but I have, so it does. :lol:

DS is no longer bf, hasn't been for 9 months, and he still does it, usually when he's tired. He will sit facing me on my lap or lay against my shoulder with the finger from one hand in his mouth and the other hand down my top.
if he's that tired and not sitting on me his other hand is in his arm pit, funny little thing

Yep - including going to try and find it and pulling my hand away if I cover it up.

Lachlan shoves hi shand down my top , but he doesnt play with my breasts he is more interested in flinging my bra strap.
Oh and yes he does sometimes slap the boob he is feeding from