for more on BF and natural baby health, visit naturalbaby.info Breastfeeding generally gets easier as the child gets older. It may be difficult sometimes to nurse a very active baby in public, as s/he may be distracted and may squirm and draw attention to you. However, I find that it is generally easier since my son is now very used to nursing and does not need me to help him latch on or to support his head while he is feeding. Since he is now very mobile and also starting to be able to communicate, he often climbs nto my lap and signs milk or otherwise shows me that he wants to nurse. In this video, I want to show you one nursng position that is easy to do with an older baby. The baby sits on your lap and latches on to the breast all by himself, and continues to breastfeed in a sitting position, straddling your leg. He can move around quite a bit while nursing, without it inturrupting his feeding or making you uncomfortable. This can also be done easily in public on a chair or sofa, where there is no room to lay him down and breastfeed him in the cradle or football position. Although he has 8 teeth, my son does not bite while he is breastfeeding. He has nipped me occasionally, but this would only happen when he was not really hungry and was just playing with my nipple. Sometimes when he was teething he also nipped a little but I would immediately take him off the breast and he quickly got the message that if he wanted to nurse, he could not bite.
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