Lopsided!

My LG only feeds from my right boob - I’ve been told by the Breastfeeding Network that this is perfectly normal which is fine. I try to pump from the left occasionally but I don’t always get round to it… now I’ve noticed that my right boob is bigger than my left (which makes sense) but does this mean I’m permanently lopsided?! Will pumping more even then out? Will it be even out when I start weaning?

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Have you tried feeding from the left using the rugby hold? Sometimes my little boy doesn't like lying on his right side so feeding form the left breast I have to do the rugby hold (his body being me, head at breast so he is lying on his left side)

Hello! I had this issue early on because my right nipple was so sore and bleeding. I couldn’t bring myself to feed her that side so she then properly went off the right (we also think from her head post birth didn’t like laying that side. I had to work really hard to get her used to the right again, a couple minutes at a time, which slowly over time worked and built up longer and longer, now she’s okay with both sides. In the meantime I pumped to help keep supply up.
Maybe see if your baby doesn’t like laying on a particular side x

I also had this but a left side preference. I think it was to do with baby not liking laying one side as others have said and also the side he didn’t like has a faster leg down. Instead the lactation consultant we saw suggested reclined feeding on that side so that he found latching easier as he was in control, let down is naturally slower against gravity and fixed the side lying preference (also called koala hold). It was hard work at first but as above we just built time on that side up slowly and now at 3 months he has no preference at all!

On a separate note our lactation consultant said she had a baby who would only feed on one no matter what she did and she said she was still lopsided after stopping breast feeding

We are currently working with a cranial osteopath, as my daughter has a preference for lying and keeping her head on one side, and it is helping.

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I'm still breastfeeding my son who will be two in a few months.

It still feels completely natural and is mainly a way that he settles himself but I am thinking of gently weaning at some point soon.

I am more aware of other people's opinions about it now he's a bit older, despite this being completely normal in a lot of places and the World Health Organization still recommending brrastfeeding up to two years of age or beyond.