B/Feeding - Do you find it difficult?

I have always had to breastfeed Isla on an angle. She has never been able to lie flat, but wasnt actually diagnosed with silent reflux until she was 4 1/2months old ( I tried so hard,..saw 3 different Dr's,..long story!).

I feed her with her body across mine, belly to belly, but just use a regular pillow folded in half in support her upper body, then let her lower body just rest downwards on my legs. Now that she bigger,..I feed her in an arm chain, and her head is in my arm which is leaning on the arm of the chair, and her body is resting on me.

*tries to remember back* i think i actually did hold mikey at a slight angle but not because i heard it was better, i think it just happened that way. i didn't often bother with a breastfeeding pillow, just used my arm to support him. i don't remember my arm getting tired, i think when they're tiny they're just so light it doesn't really register and then as they grow, so do your muscles.

If there was a product on the market that bought babies head UP TO your breast, and didn't require you holding baby in your arm, nor resting pillows on arms of couches etc, and kept bubs on an angle to help with reflux, would you buy it??

Bee wrote: If there was a product on the market that bought babies head UP TO your breast, and didn't require you holding baby in your arm, nor resting pillows on arms of couches etc, and kept bubs on an angle to help with reflux, would you buy it??

Probably not. I like the "cuddle factor" and your arm does get used to it.

Nah I don't think I'd buy one either. But maybe thats because I know I can do without it? New mums might be more into it.

I know everyone is going to hate me but I didnt find it difficult at all. I was lying the first time I fed her and she latched on all by herself. I had trouble when the bf consultant came to unlatch her and show me different positions. I told her straight out I will ask for help when I need it and to just let me and my child alone. She didnt. The first day they kept on trying to latch her when she wasnt hungry and then by the time I know she is she was screaming as too many people prodded her.

I was literally ready to give up on bfding that night. But I had her on my own. Hubby wasnt there and she wanted milk. I looked her in the eye and told her you and mommy are going to do this just like the first time. Hold her and she just latched on.

Nurse came in and told me I should feed her now and told them to Peeve off she just did and not to bother me with feeding again as they are seriously stressing my baby and me out.

Never had problems after that again. I did find the help of a normal pillow helped me in the beginning when she was so small ect and to help with the pressure on my cesear scar.

It really is a thing of trial and error. Try a lot of different positions as well. easier on your breasts and you will find a postition both of you guys prefer.

Good luck

I have found breastfeeding very easy. For both of my boys. I guess I've been very lucky with that. I had the added bonus of working with c/sections as well so I am quite proud of the fact that I have managed to feed both of my boys for as long as I have
I have a breast feeding pillow which has been absolutely fantastic, it's shaped in a way that I can use it for a lot of different positions. If I needed to prop my boy up a bit all I had to do was fold over a section and wallah! done.
I wouldn't buy a different one.

I found it easy with Maya (apart from the part where Plunket and the midwife confused me re: expressing and I got nasty mastitis). I had to use a pillow to support her for about the first 6 weeks tho as I have giant boobies and needed my arm/hand to hold the top of my boob away from squishing her nose.

With the gremlins it was an absolute disaster, and I'm not even going to go there coz I have already bleated about it in far too much detail many a time. Suffice to say finding out they were reacting to something in my breastmilk and had to be weaned was actually a blessing in disguise.

AndysMummy wrote: I just have problems as I have the hugest boobies (it's nice to know I'm not alone Emma!)in the world so feeding anywhere other than on a couch with a breastfeding pillow is rather difficult as I have to hold my boobs away from Andy's face so he can breath.

And no one ever warns you beforehand that your boobs are going to be bigger than your newborns head