Our go-to is the football hold at 3.5 months and has been since 6.5 weeks.
What was your go-to after the newborn days?
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Side lying from the start!
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Cradle or side lying.
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@autumnlove: @hilsy85: LO and I are waiting for the twin mattress for his room to arrive so that we can safely cobed and do side-lying!
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Anything! I switch it up since I'm prone to clogged ducts
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Football hold is tied with side lying for #1. He's just starting to want to nurse sitting up, though. ETA: I meant cradle, not football. I never got the hang of football.
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I have been doing the same the whole time, cradle.
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I nurse lying down 90% of the time! The rest of the time I cradle.
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@septemberlove: Great!!
I also use cradle when we are out..I hate it!
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Side lying!
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Cross-cradle on the right and football on the left. Just a habit we got into when she was a NB.
For @septemberlove and others who use football a lot: Do you use it when you NIP? I find it really awkward, but I'm so used to doing football on the left that I have a really hard time going back to cross-cradle!
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Cradle hold and the occasional session side-lying are our main positions but I've also indulged in a spot of dangle nursing when Miss A went on a bit of strike from teething.
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We did side-lying and cradle for a long time. We still do side-lying for our MOTN session, but otherwise he really likes to sit on my lap facing me (or stand or kneel between my legs, depending on where I am) and nurse that way. He also wants both boobs out and available, and goes back and forth between them. It's pretty funny looking, according to DH.
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side lying & cradle once past the newborn days. Now he likes to sit up on my lap or sometimes I just lay on my back on the ground, whip out the boob, and let him come to me. lol I'm lazy sometimes.
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@mrskc: I'm too frightened that A is going to bite if I let her self-latch!
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we did cradle from day 1. we didn't figure out side lying until around 8 months, and he never really liked it that much!
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@hergreenapples: I use football out and about, I bring my boppy when we go out (I just tuck it in the little basket under his stroller) and ill find a chair with a back or a changing room and position him and the boppy between me and the back of the chair (so I'm sitting sideways in the chair) and the back of the chair provides a lot of privacy from the occasional unexpected pop-off and once he's done, he is content to just kind of snooze under my arm, on the boppy, which is nice in restaurants!
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Maybe we'll give the cradle position a try, it sounds like it works really well!
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Side lying is my fav!
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We just weaned at 13.5 months and cradle hold is the ONLY position we ever got the hang of! I could never figure out how any of the other positions worked! Luckily, I really liked cradle hold, as did LO.
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I loved the football hold and did that until about 3 months. Then he would always just push his feet off the back of the couch, that was annoying.
Now we just do he cradle hold.
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Cradle or Cross-Cradle since the beginning with the Boppy. I don't think my boobs are quite big enough to do side-laying, though I try sometimes when I'm super tired. Always scared that I'm going to roll onto her though.
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Side lying, and as she got older, her sitting in my lap. Those are all we do now at 22 months.
I also use cradle when we are out..I hate it!
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