What is single sided feeding?
Is it as obvious as it sounds? What happens if you feed from the one boob until it is empty but baby is still hungry - do you offer the other boob?If you do are you still doing single sided feeding?
Does anyone do single sided feeding? Would you recommend it?????
Ta ladies. xxSara
Does anyone do single sided feeding? Would you recommend it?????
Ta ladies. xxSara
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I'm not sure of your circumstances but basically unless there is a real reason to single side feed then i wouldn't until baby is a bit older and less reliant on mummy milk!
Hope that helps a bit!
xxx
So I'm thinking that when you are trying to establish breastfeeding you need to offer both breasts to ensure that they both go on making milk?
The huge disadvantage is that I am very wonky! :roll: I do express from the right side but only twice a day and, of course, its nothing like a baby sucking so my right breast doesn't produce all that much milk.
Your breasts will adapt to produce what milk it needs as BF'ing is supply and demand but I do sometimes worry what if something goes wrong on the left side, but not as much as in the early days.
I am thinking of trying again on the right side as I'd like to increase my milk supply on that side.
If you CAN feed from both sides then I don't really see an advantage to single sided feeding. Does the BW recommend it then?
Love NN and Olyvia xxx
Yeah the old Baby Whisperer recommends single sided feeding in a slightly I-am-right-about-this-don't-answer-back manner.
But actually I'm starting to think that what she thinks of a single sided feeding is not what other people would think. I think what she means is that you offer the one breast until it is totally empty. Then the next feed you feed on the other breast, until it is totally empty. So although you are only feeding from the one breast you are still feeding from both, if you see what I mean.
There's no special reason why I would end up only feeding from the one breast, I just wanted to find out what she meant!