lopsided feeding - will less favoured side 'dry-up' at this rate?!

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my ds2 (16 wks) has alwys prefered the L side, but now it has got almost impossible to get him to feed on the R. He will feed for only 30-60secs after let down on the R then come off screaming and then happily feeds on the L.

My R boob is always smaller than L but when pg and bf the difference is more marked. this makes me thing i have less glandular br tissue on that side. with ds1 i tried to feed more on the R to sort of 'make it grow' iyswim, but it didn't increase and then he didn't put on wt and i had to mix feed and then he refused breast all together. i could only ever express 1oz on the R but 3-4 on L

i have tried rugby hold/lying down to feed but he still won't take the R even though there is milk spurting out often or at least i can express jets of milk.

will i end up even more lopsided? surely only so long that side will produce milk if not being removed.

i will try and express later to see what i can get but haven't done any with ds2 yet as think that may have messed with ds1's growth.

anyone else had similar experience?

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Bumping for you, also to say that my 7 months old aslways favours the right, but will have a "snack" from the left side. Right side is often heading towards engorgement as she is so obsessed with than one side. Also only the preferred side leaks milk. No idea why.

I also noted that when I expressed I could get up to 3-4 oz easily on the right, but very little i.e. less than an oz on the left.

thanks for that lollipop. good to know i am not the only one.

my dd always preferred rhs...she would go on the lhs but as time went on, her time there just got less and less. I persisted with trying to get her to go on the left but in the end, she was having a screaming fit whenever I tried to feed her on that one so at about 14 weeks, I gave up and let her do what she wanted - always offered rhs first of all and then after about a week she began to start to top up with the left. She was so much happier to take the lhs after a good feed on the rhs (sometimes a bit dozy as well which helped!) and I figured that any stimulation from her at all, even if it was just a few mins would be enough to keep the supply there. In between ,when she really wasn't interested, I did a bit of extra expressing on the lhs after a feed to keep supply up (not lots, just to keep things ticking over) and guess what..by about 4 months she was happily taking both again, supply not affected. I think that by letting her do what she wanted, she didn't get stressed out, I didn't get stressed out, she was full and happy and so I was happy. From then on, I always began feeds on rhs and over the months she definitely took more milk from the rhs, but not so that it made any noticable difference to me.

I remember in amongst all the b/feeding info/leaflets I was given in the maternity unit, one of the babies featured had a "favourite" breast - so we can't be the only ones with this situation.