Quick Poll.....Breast Feeding - does your LO have a favourite side, and....

[daisyandbabybootoo]

and are you left or right handed?

Mine favours the right and I'm right handed....i just wondered if there was a connection?

[puffylovett]

ditto, i think he is also right handed, as am i

[Katy44]

DS sometimes favours one over the other (e.g. will cry after a few seconds on one but then feed happily from the other) but I think this changes from day to day and must be to do with let down. So no is my answer!
(Would it be flippant to say he favours the right one when friends is on cos he can see the TV?)

[hunkermunker]

The left, but he usually sits on my right side to feed now, either on my lap, laying across me or next to me, depending which side he's feeding from, so he's always lying on his right side to feed.

I'm right-handed.

[ProfYaffle]

Both dd's prefered the left breast, and so do I as it leaves my right hand free (am right handed). DD1 is left handed and dd2 is only 23 weeks but showing signs of prefering her left hand already. I wonder if the lo's like to have their dominant hand free?

[Tutter]

seem to have diff let-downs and feeding speeds!

right breast = broadband
left = dial-up

was the same with ds1

[coleyboy]

DS prefered the left side, and I'm right handed. But I think ds is going to be left handed.

[annobal]

I'm right handed, as is DH. DS3 (4 weeks) doesn't really seem to favour one side over the other but right side seems to produce more (will get engorged but left side doesn't).

[DollyPopsOut]

Interesting - with DD2 it's the RH side which she likes best. It's also better for feeding on sofa (lays head on sofa arm) and for bed (laptop by computer for MN). With DD1 we were in a diff house and I sat on the other side of the sofa as our sitting room was differently set out. She preferred LH side (with sofa arm etc).

Notice when I express that RH side is much faster.

[daisyandbabybootoo]

LOL tutter.....good analogy

[pulapula]

My DS feeds ok from both, and I am trying to discourage a favourite side as i ended up with one boob significantly bigger than the other after i'd finished feeding DD! I favoured my left with DD- it left my right hand free to eat, change tv channel etc. But it led to uneven milk supply...

[mistlethrush]

Left definitely. I'm rh. Got terrible cracks on rhs which didn't help (had them prior to birth, mw didn't suggest anything to help)

[TheQueenOfQuotes]

DS3 definitely prefers my left and I'm lefthanded....as I'm only giving him one "full" feed a day (plus the occasional quick feed) I'm just using my left side as I can't seem to find a comfortable position to feed him on my right side, and he doesn't stay on long (hasn't from birth) and fusses with it anyhow. Much easier for us to stick to the side we both get on better with.

[rainbow83]

she favours the right breast but i'm left handed.

[Jamantha]

at first she favoured the right, but now it varies from feed to feed