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I'm curious to know what positions everyone feeds/fed with, what worked for you, what didn't, what changed as they grew etc.
I have always fed DD in the cradle hold. I actually didn't really think there was any other way :lol: Even with the brace, it's cradle. My boobs are reasonably big but saggy (lol!) so they go down low enough for DD to eat.
Combo of cradle and football when she was a newborn. But now it's however she goes to it. She likes to stand and feed which I don't encourage because she likes to bounce as she does it and she has drawn blood a couple of times doing this and it's very ouchy!
Cradle or laying down in bed.....I miss breast feeding :(
Lying down (as I'm typing!)
With ds sitting up and his legs astride my thigh
On the toilet with ds standing next to me (lol)
With ds sitting in the high chair (ok I'mlazy and he's very heavy)
With one leg up on the bench and ds sitting astride my hip and thigh while I'm stirring dinner on the stove
Lying on my back with ds crawling all over me
Cradle hold while ds tries to roll and then stand on the couch
Anywhere anyway anytime
We're using mostly cradle hold with his legs straddling mine at the moment. We also lay down in bed sometimes, especially Sunday mornings for a quick feed then play with Daddy :)
LOL, Arcadia, extreme bfing hey?!
I generally feed in the cradle hold through the day now. When the kids were little I used the football hold a bit too, but I find as they grow it gets uncomfy. Or if I am laying down on the lounge, we feed with him on my tummy and to the side a bit, resting on the back of the lounge (not a great description!) or otherwise it's laying in bed, with each of us on our side.
With DD1 it took a while before we moved on from the standard cradle hold, often using a pillow for support. She now feeds pretty much however... standing, on my lap, kneeling beside... other than her special bedtime feed (side by side in bed), she has to manouver around the newborn if she wants milk so things have gotten quite acrobatic.
With DD2 we feed in a variety of positions and have since birth basically, she has such a strong neck! We do mostly cradle hold, side by side laying and tummy to tummy laying.
I've never really mastered the football hold!!
DD is getting big enough to sit on my lap and feed with me holding my breast to her now, but she pulls on and off a lot at the moment so this is frustrating.
I can cradle hold on the right, but reqally struggle on the left.
Feeding is easiest laying donw but that's obviously not always practical.
We occassionally football hold but I need a pillow for support.
Usually lying on the bed. sometimes cradle hold when we're out if she lets me. Biggish baby so hard on my back.
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I've generally used the cradle hold for both of mine. When they were really little I would occasionally use the football hold if I felt that there was an area of the breast not being drained properly, but I was always most comfortable with the cradle hold and so were they.
Like em, now it's mostly however they decide to get on. DS is so big now that I usually make him lay across my lap where I can keep him still or I think he could do major damage, lol. DD is still usually a cradle hold, but she often gets bored and wants to sit up more and often ends up almost sitting beside my with my breast sticking out the side of her mouth, lol. She's also happy to stand and feed but also likes to bounce and dance *ouch!*
in bed more often than not now - she's too damn long to feed sitting up any more (it works during the day but not at night - i can't work out why though lol):
cradle hold, with my legs up and a pillow on my lap (or with my knees up, if I don't have a pillow handy).
I tried football, laying, upright, and a couple of others to see if they worked better, but they didn't.
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Cradle everywhere but home (unless park or beach where often do lying down). At home he lies across me on a pillow while I am on the net so I am hands free, sometimes is like cradle just no hands and sometimes is laying the other way so feet out to side instead of across me. He doesn't sit up well enough to really do sitting up to feed although has had a bit a couple of times that way, and has just started lying on top of me when I am in bed and feeding. He still seems to get sleepy/mega relaxed when feeding so he really needs to be supported at moment. I really want to master feeding in the Ergo but seems like my boobs are too low or he is too tall.
I just wanted to post in here because I can!!!!!!!!!
I so far have only fed J in the cradle hold :D
Nice to see you posting in this thread BAL :)
Cradle hold during the day or lying down if I am in bed.
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Hahahahahaha, you made me grin with that one :) You guys are doing so well!
When DS was a baby I used the football hold a lot. We used a boomerang pillow and a bunch of other pillows for support (I didn't go very far in those first few weeks) and then we progressed to cradle hold but would even then use pillows.
As DS got older it was mostly cradle hold but sometimes I would switch to football hold if he was teething and had worn my nipple a bit and it was sore. We would also lay down to feed (cause I often tried to feed him to sleep too)
Cradle hold mainly. Well it starts that way at least until DD2 gets herself into some crazy position. Lying down for night feeds. And I also feed a lot in the ergo.
I started with cradle but after a couple of days a mw suggested football and that worked well for us. Once we were home from hospital, I gave cradle a go again and had no problems. Stuck with that from then. We always used a boomerang pillow and it wasn't until she was a lot older that I stopped getting up to sit up to feed during the night and fed lying down.
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DD's favourite position is me seated with her standing on the arm of my chair leaning over me and feeding upside down. When she was little, she fed cradle on the left side and football hold on the right. Now she mostly feeds straddling my leg. She has a funny thing she does too. Whilst on my left side, she likes to stick her finger in my mouth and play with my teeth. On my right side she rocks my arm. It's cute!
in the beginning it was football and cradle, but once she was a couple of months old it was all laying down, unless out somewhere where we couldnt lay down, we'd cradle in the car or when she was too big for that, id feed her in the carseat, me standing up and her just kicking back, but mostly i was known to borrow a bed or a floor whenever i could at friends and families houses.
jazzy is 16 months on wed and she still feeds the same as when she was born laying on a pillow or whatevers around and i hold the boob with same side hand i never got the cradle hold really but we do it when out when theres no pillow or whatever but i prefer bed coz then i can sleep too
Lying down!! My life saver! Got tons of sleep while everyone else was complaining about sleepless nights lol! Since DS is a toddler now he usually just sits on me somehow or even stands beside me while I sit down but occasionally when he is sleepy we go back to the cradle hold
Good old cradle hold with a Tri Pillow on my lap to prop her up.. We mostly fed laying down straight after birth but I couldn't get her attachment right do started sitting up and now it's stuck.. I'd like to lie on my side again as I found it super comfortable as did DD but it seems like such a juggle at the moment as I still need 2 hands to attach her and then she sometimes comes off as I'm moving my arm and laying back down if that makes sense? I suppose it will get easier once she gets better at attaching herself?
PS - Also like BAL and super stoked I can post in this thread :)
Sorry to butt in, unfortunately I can't contribute to the thread, but saw this and wanted to give it a big wooohooo! :):
for me it was the football hold, lying down & later on cradle hold as well.
Football hold for the first few days of Moo's life...cradle hold ever since. Tried lying down but never got the hang of it!
Football hold for first 6 weeks and then lying in bed. I only cradle held from 4 months+ and only when I had to when we went out to shops. At friends places I steal a bed ;)
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At night/early morning, lying in bed is our default position. :D Other than that, the cradle hold is pretty much the way to go. We haven't done the football hold much, so it's really just those two positions. Unfortunately, dear baby gets heavy on her mummy's poor arm!
just remembered that I also used to feed him leaning over the carseat in the car!!!! Not the safest thing ever for me but only way I could stop the screaming in the car! Wouldn't take a dummy ever!
When DS was littler it was him laying down my body, tummy to tummy itms. I cant think of a simpler way to describe it lol. Its what came natural for us, my midwife actually asked who showed me it in hospital and was pleasantly surprised when I told her it came natural as apparently thats the hold they are teaching new mothers now? Idk lol. But now its a bit of a cradle hold as before his naps I feed him on the fitball. Feeds during the day at any other time are any position imaginable, he likes to try and do a handstand lol.
We have also always fed lying down a lot as we co-sleep. :)
Just wanted to add that I have now breastfed standing up and laying down :D yay!! I reckong Jett will feed upside down in a few months lol.. He loves it. Spent the best part of 3hrs feeding tonight. It is the best :D
You're right, it is the best :) So rapt for you!: