Usual breastfeeding position not working!

[Juniperjan]

Hi all, my LO has been really unsettled this evening. She has been in reasonably good form all day but letting the odd little scream out of her. I normally feed her in the cradle hold and until now this has never caused any problems but this evening she just wouldn't feed at all. She kept pulling away so I thought perhaps it's her teeth. I gave her some teething powder but this didn't make any difference. Then I thought I'd try the rugby hold but that didn't work either. Then finally, I tried dangle feeding where she is lying down on the bed and I basically dangle my boob over her. This seemed to work! And she sucked happily for a while. I still don't know if she got enough but after a while this position became untenable for me as I was starting to get dizzy. I think she had had enough anyway. I tried the cradle hold again and she sucked for a while and then seemed to have enough. I just don't get why this happened!!

It's bizarre, has anyone else ever experienced this? She wouldn't feed this afternoon in a cafe after we had been for a walk either but this has been increasingly common because she gets distracted. But I always feed her in our room where it is darker and quiet.

 

[LDC]

My lo is sometimes picky in terms of how she's fed, I try swapping boobs. The cradle hold does normally work for us, but sometimes ill lie down and feed her like that (although obviously you can do that in a cafe!)

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[seaweed eater]

Yeah, sometimes mine randomly gets picky about positioning too. Swapping sides helps sometimes. Personally I haven't tried the dangling boob over baby position but I've heard from several other moms that that can be a good one when LO is fussy, so you are not the only one to have had that work.

 

[Kellen]

Right now my LO refuses to nurse at home in any other position that laying down. She'll tolerate a cross body hold out in public, but it isn't her favorite. If I try the football/rugby hold she will scream. Sometimes I just have to let her fuss and decide that she is actually hungry before she'll nurse and stop pulling off.