Lying on back with baby on top - selfish position?

[Pimmsandlemonade]

Dd is now 13 months old, still bfeeding, and I have been meaning to post about this earlier, but never got round to it.

I have often fed dd, since she was a few months old, lying on my back, sleeping, with dd on top. Dh has always criticised this positioning, saying it's selfish and I should sit up when feeding dd. This I find extremely annoying verging on the infuriating. What does he know? DD is perfectly happy with this position - I think she would tell me if not - it allows me to sleep while feeding too.

Do you feed in this position too or am I the most selfish mum in the kingdom of selfishness?

As I'm sure your DH must have noticed, you can't make babies do what they don't want to do. It's lovely to feed lying down: happy Mum, happy baby. There's a fantastic video clip you should try to find for your DH (ask local NCT maybe?). Mother is doing yoga practice - a head stand. Door opens wider, baby (10 months ish) crawls in. Looks at mother, crawls over to her, pulls down T shirt, helps himself! Should help dispel the myth that the only / proper way to feed is sitting bolt upright!

I have just added that BN site to my fave's so i can read it and show DH if he kicks up if i manage to BF.
(hopefully it'll still be there in December)

You are selfish, obviously you should be feeding the baby with the baby in a sling so you can cook and clean at the same time . Sounds like your DH needs a slap with a wet fish...
I've got that Clare Byam-Cook book about Breastfeeding and in there it recommends lying down as a good feeing position.

Mmmm very selfish - of course funny that, because this is the very way that most babies are positioned for that first feed as soon as possible after being born.