nursing in a moby

Mike_Patti

Ok, so I love my moby and I love nursing my baby. I hear that you can nurse a baby in the moby. Call me dumb or un-creative, but how on earth do you do that? My baby is only 3 weeks old so I kind of assumed that this was something that could only be done once the baby is old enough to have some sort of good head control, but recently I saw something posted on another board about a mom nursing a newborn in a moby. Possible?

Lotsofloveandkids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbalsUY408k <-- Very helpful.

BriDaily

When I ordered my Moby, I got a booklet with all the different ways you could wrap the Moby, including the breastfeeding hold. If you bought your Moby used or at a store like Target and it didn't come with the instructional manual, I recommend contacting Moby and seeing if you can get one. Maybe you can get some coordinating BabyLegs while you're at it!

pixieprincss

Here is my tutorial on nursing in a wrap. One video shows how to wrap it, one shows how to nurse in it. I am using a woven wrap, but I have done this in a Moby when DS1 was 5 weeks old and I learned it. DS2 nursed like this for the first time at 1-2 days old.

ncbelle

You've gotten great advice and just wanted to add...

Your body shape and breast size can make it easier or harder to nurse in most carriers where you have to drop baby down to nurse.  I'm a long torsoed A cup so dropping baby down doesn't work well for me since baby would have to be super low as I have nothing to lift up!  If you are really large, it can take more doing since in the beginning you may have to hold your breast more until baby is stronger.

All that is to say...if you feel like you aren't able to do it like in the links provided, it may work better when baby is older or in a different carrier type. 

ryry1977

I just this week nursed in the Moby for the first time.  I have been using it since she was a few days old and never felt comfortable until now.  Can be done, but don't think I would nurse a little tiny one in a Moby.  Not sure how that would work.  Now that she is 6 months old it was not bad at all.