The Perils of Night-Nursing
At 2:30 a.m. I stumbled through the dark to my toddler’s bed. I didn’t bother to put my eyeglasses on even though everything appeared quite fuzzy to me without them. I could hear my daughter crying for me and I could vaguely make out her tiny form in the bed. I lay down next to her and rested my head on the pillow. She didn’t turn to me to nurse as she usually would, so I gently pulled her shoulder to roll her body toward me. She still didn’t latch on and that’s when I figured out that somehow she’d flipped around with her feet at the head of the bed. I’d rolled her “shoulder” and ended up trying to nurse her knee!
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1 opinion for The Perils of Night-Nursing
Gerry
Jan 28, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Well, that must have been a surprise to both of you! Not really a “peril” though! On another subject, I always feel disheartened by articles I read in popular magazines warning against nursing in bed. With your arm over your baby’s head, there is no way to roll over onto your infant. Also, the gentle pressure over the infant’s head has some type of psysiological influence in helping the baby sleep via the warmth and slight pressure. After more than five collective years of nursing, I never had any problem or concern on sharing our bed.
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