Which boob?

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My son has recently started sleeping through the night (ish), which means that the even number of feeds has dropped to an odd number. I always feed from both breasts but do the same boob in the morning first then switch for each feed.

With an odd number of feeds now what do I do?! Carry on switching and get confused or do two in a row (night and morning) from the same side first, and potentially get mastitis or one big boob?

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You won't get mastitis or one big boob I do the same, I feed always from the same one side first in the morning as it's closest when I pull her out of the crib. I then switch throughout the day. But then you're doing an overnight sleep (or a good chunk of hours anyway) so both boobs are full so it doesn't massively matter as long as you feed off both!

Thank you :)

Don't worry, it's only if they exclusively use one there's an issue

You can also use this as an opportunity to pump from the unused boob first thing. Build a freezer stash for any time away from him or if you get poorly and want a whole night off

I'm not really sure I get what you're asking but I wear a hairband on my wrist and start a feed on that side then switch it to the other wrist. Ds often only has one boob and sometimes goes 8 hours overnight so it can be 10 hours before the other boob is 'used' and I'm fine. Supply seems to have settled a couple of weeks ago (ds is almost 8 weeks)