My 6 mo DS always seems to have his top arm waving around while I'm BFing him. His hand sort of waves around searching for something to explore, pat, pull on, squeeze, scrape, claw, etc etc. (My chest, hair, chin, necklace, arm, other breast, clothes, even occassionally his leg). I sometimes wonder whether he doesn't feel secure enough while I'm feeding him (sometime just rest him on a pillow so my hands are a free), so try pulling him in to me more, but I don't think it makes much difference. It didn't occur to me that this might not be normal until I watched a couple of friends feeding and their babies (both girls...is it a boy thing?) just lay there calmly feeding with their arms all tucked in.
Does this happen to anyone else? Honestly, it feels like an all out assault sometimes.