does jiggling and rocking a breast-feeding baby work when it's a bit frantic?

[Twiglett]

I was watching someone bf a 2 - 3 month old baby .. baby was doing the latch, unlatch scream thing .. mother was jiggling it and standing up and jiggling

when I bf I just held them still ... I was wondering whether the jiggle approach also works or whether its a highway to more screaming?

when I say watching, I wasn't really .. she was sitting in same waiting room as me and I smiled at her once then looked away and chatted afterwards and said nothing of course

Depends on the baby I suppose.....but my instinct would be not to jiggle too much - can't imagine it being too comfortable/easy trying to feed whilst being jiggled about. But then my DS was always fairly fidgety & even now at 4 years old seems happy eating whilst jumping up & down

WOrked well with dd when she was in a whingy mood.

It always worked for ds, anything that had rhythm (jiggle, patting on the bum) would calm him down.

depends on th baby

it's one of the things you try and will either make it owrse or improve it

dd liked to be fd whiel I was bouncing gently on a gym ball

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