Distractable baby - please tell me this is just a phase

[fadingfast]

DD is 24 weeks and I'd been thinking I might carry on BFing until she was around a year, as it's been going pretty well. In the last couple of weeks though she has got increasingly hard to feed - distracted by everything. It's getting impossible to feed her out in public as she keeps looking around leaving my boobs on show for all to see. At home I try to get DS (3) to be quiet when I'm feeding but I can't expect him not to even talk!

If this carries on I might have to give up. Please don't tell me to go and feed in a quiet, dark room as it's just not practical! Is it just a phase?

Probably not a phase I'm afraid. Dd 21 mos and still bfing is very nosey, but I usually managed to keep my breast private. Stopped daytime feeds quite recently, but she's still nosey at her before bedtime feed at home.
I'm sure you wont be as exposed as you think you are. Try not to worry about it or go into feeding areas so that you are in a more private place when feeding out and about.

probably a phase - they get more efficient as they get bigger too so feeds get shorter = less opportunity to be distracted

feeding when they are sleepy sometimes helps

i had to resort to darkened bedroom. nosy dd1 would just stop feeding - she just couldn't drink if anything was happening anywhere within earshot.

i ended up switching to bottle with her after a month i'm afraid - it was just totally impossible. at least with a bottle i could follow her mouth as it travelled around the room and she actually got some milk... she just wouldn't bother to latch on again and was gesticulating and grinning and trying to get everyone's attention, not drink a darn thing.

ds1 otoh, was far more interested in boobs. you could have let off a rocket by his ear and he wouldn't have blinked whilst on the job...

Sound is probably the worst distraction, I could never nurse in a room with a TV on for some time with my second (my first was oblivious). I did have to stick a DVD on for my older boy and retreat to the bedroom for feeds for a while. Not ideal, but it helped.

Can't remember did he outgrow distraction, or just outgrow the more frequent feedings. . .