Positions for big breasts and 6 mo

[nurnurha]

Hi everyone,

I'm EBF an almost 6 month old baby and we are starting to struggle to get a good position.

We currently feed laid back but baba complains a lot and is quite long so I don't feel like I'm giving her adequate support anymore (I'm short).

We started with cradle but she's too big for that and my breasts are too!
We also used to do the rugby position but we now have the same issue with that as she's too long, and my back starts to go.

Does anyone have any recommendations for positioning a bigger baby with bigger breasts?

I think I'm not very good at this but I would like to keep BF her as it's cheaper and easier (well it was at least!)

Tia xx

Do you have a breastfeeding pillow? Maybe that will help?

Cushions under her for the rugby ball position. So you can sit more comfortably?

I've tried cushions/pillows to not much avail sadly

Would laid back work but with her flopped over your torso or your lap? Imagine like cradle but then lying back.

I never managed cradle at all - we were rugby ball, or lying down all the way - DS1 was pretty tall, he used to lie along the arm of the settee on a pillow (wide arms, ikea thing) with my arm round him so I could be against the backrest (the arm was outside the cushions, so he feet could go all the way out to the wall), or if we were out and about, he kinda just curled up round me enough that I could cope.

Dd is the same age and huge - rugby ball on a feeding pillow, with a couple of cushions behind my back to push me forward. Thank god for lockdown, frankly, because i’m not sure i’d manage it out and about

Side by side and rugby hold works for me.

Tried the rugby hold and it doesn't work for us anymore sadly. It was a lifesaver in the earlier days though! Tried lying down and it sometimes works, sometimes not