YOUR hands during nursing...

Soxgirl07 · August 2011

At 6 weeks, I always use 1 hand to support my breast, and sometimes support LO's head with the other throughout each nursing session. Just wondering what others do and at what age they started it.

Do you help baby latch and then remove your hands? Do you hold your boob in position? If you nurse hands-free, was it hard to get to this stage?

Sacagawea · August 2011

Sometimes I have no hands. I use a boppy, and LO is pretty good at latching on her own. I'll use my hands to position her head towards my boob, but that is about it. I usually surf the web on my ipad, eat a meal, talk or text with my phone, or watch netflix on my ipad. When I don't have my boppy, like when nursing out, I have one arm underneath her for support, but my other hand is free.

janjag · August 2011

I love this question. I still use one hand to support my breast. 34Fs need some help, or at least mine do. LCs suggest rolling up a little towel for support but I just feel more comfortable holding it up

The other hand used to support baby, but now I mostly have the it free to do something like read or drink or use my iPhone.

FirstBabyMomma · August 2011

I use a boppy so don't feel like I need to support her head at all, and while my boobs are bigger than they were, I'm only a DD so they aren't terribly heavy. By about 6 weeks, we were hands-free nursing so my hands are typing, surfing the net, changing the TV channel, etc. Although as she got older and started trying to pat my face/pull my hair/snatch off my glasses, I found I needed my hands again!

SnoopyLuv · August 2011

I still hold my boob for her or else it hangs down near my bellybutton. I don't have t hold her head and we nurse in some strange positions now that she's bigger.

lindsay.lou · August 2011

I'm hands free now, but i think it's only b/c i have teeny boobies.

McAllie5 · August 2011

At first I would have one hand support LO's head, the other guiding my breast/holding it up. As he got bigger, now I don't have to support his head (when we use the boppy). If I do I can now use the crook of my elbow, which I was never able to do when he was so small. Sometimes if they're especially full I'll use a hand to massage the breast to help get some of the lumps out.

Mostly though I use my hands to hold the book I'm reading or surf the web.

khusker · August 2011

I cradle her with one arm and get her latched with the other. Once she is latched I am free to eat, surf the web, or pretty much whatever I can do with 1 hand. I have been nursing this way since she was born pretty much. I have C boobs though and they haven't gotten bigger with nursing.

AimeeL85 · August 2011

I used to always use one hand to support the boob for him, and I would tuck one of those prefold cloth diapers that are used for burp rags under his chin to catch dribbles. Then I realized if I folded it in half and tucked it underneath the boob, and that supported it for me. So now I am just holding him with the arm that's on the same side he's eating, and my opposite arm is free.

Bunniehug · August 2011

lindsay.lou:
I'm hands free now, but i think it's only b/c i have teeny boobies.

This. I was hands free around two weeks.

catsinawindow · August 2011

I need to use one hand to keep from smothering DS with my ginormous boobs and usually I need to use the other hand/arm to hold his head/body in the right way. Sometimes if I get him in a good position, he doesn't need to be supported, but more times than not, he does. So I have no free hands :-(

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