Annoying stuff my baby does whilst feeding

[YanknCock]

DS will be 6 months next week, and while I have no intention of quitting breastfeeding, I would like to have a little one-handed moan about how annoying he's being lately during feeds:

1. Sticks little fingers straight up my nose

1. Grabs my lower lip and gives it a yank

1. Scratches/flicks my boob, bra strap, and anything else he can reach

1. Pinches boob nonstop

1. Whinges with nipple in mouth, then doesn't latch back on properly which is very uncomfortable

1. Kicks and wiggles, pulling nipples with him

1. Pulls off to grin at me, making it impossible for me to be annoyed for long

But really, short of tying his hands down and gaffer taping his head to my boob, is there anything I can do about any of it? I'm sure we're not far from biting too, not looking forward to that!

You could be describing my ds (now 10.5mo)for the last few months! He does pretty much all of that and if I try to stop him he just giggles...

Sorry no advice - haven't found anything that really works!

DS still does much of this and he is 16 months old - sorry to say!!

Have you thought about getting a nursing necklace? I kept meaning to get one and then thinking "I will stop bf soon so not worth the money" and only realised a few weeks ago I should have just got one ages ago - I think the habits are too ingrained with him now for it to work but for a 6 month old it definitely could, DS used to leave me alone when he was in a grobag with fiddly tags on it.

Biting he has done occasionally but doesn't make a habit of, thankfully He has nearly all his teeth now as well.

a nursing necklace? never heard of one of those...

My 14mo like sticking his whole hand in my mouth.

Sympathy

Hehe! just reading this while feeding 5mo who is waving his arm about whacking me in the chin, he'd got bored of playing with my t-shirt. I also get the wee fingers in my nose/mouth/eye. Sometimes i just hold his hand which works for a bit. i did try restraining him a bit with a cunningly wrapped muslin, he was too smart/wriggly and escaped though.

So no real suggestions, just joining in with a grumble.

You are right though, the wee cheeky grin looking up at you is too nice, even in the middle of the night...

Anyone know why mine wants to stop all the time to suck his thumb, but goes nuts if you think thats him finished? (sorry to hijack).

I feel comparatively lucky that there's not too much wriggling and no pinching here. Feeding just seems to be a less peaceful activity every week now though!

Yeah all of the Above - and grabbing iPhone while I am trying to mumsnet!

I found some nursing necklaces for about £8-9 including shipping on ebay, wonder if they'd be any good? Might get one to try once I'm paid again.

Am grateful for the sympathy/company in my misery!

I love number 7!

The pinch and twist manoeuvre is the worst - how I'm still breastfeeding after 18m is beyond me!

kellymom really does cover everything

ps my "codeword" is "mamasmilk". now I come to think of it, not really a "code" word .

The "twiddling" bit on this makes me laugh, every time. someone on here referred to it as "tuneing (sp?) in" .

As well as a lot of the above, DD sometimes sticks her hands in her own mouth at the same time, which really helps. Lots.

At least when they are tiny, it's possible to BF one-handed - now I need at least three hands...

Ah yes. There are frequent shouts in this house of 'MITT HIM'. This is not a mispronounced call to wreck revenge on the pinching.... this means it's time for the turn over cuffs on the baby grow or socks on the hands. He then waves his stumpy arms at me . i tell myself it's just a phase and willpass........ in the meantime he's got a cracking pincer grip.

Ha ha dd similar. Hair pulling (mine) is my pet hate. Also turning her head 180 degrees with my nipple still in her mouth. The babbling whilst bf is a strange one isn't it. I tell her not to talk with her mouth full Whenever I tell her off she thinks it's hilarious

I get all of those, plus DD trying to stand on one leg and doing what looks like ballet moves, then falling off and yanking my nipple. If she's in a particularly athletic mood she will try to dance and feed at the same time

I try holding and stroking her hand while she feeds, that sometimes stops the pinching/poking/radio tuning.

God, how did I miss hair pulling off my original list? If I leave it down he pulls it and yanks it around, if I put it back he manages to catch any short hairs that have escaped and pull them out, which hurts even more!

Yes I have to tie my hair back and make sure I'm not wearing any dangly earrings.

DD likes to go rummaging in the other cup of my bra to pull and pinch my "spare" nipple. Alway end up having to change tops as we get covered in milk.
Finger up my nose and then straight into my eye is quite annoying.
Also the on the boob/off the boob every three seconds as she has to investigate each tiny sound drives me to distraction!

DD (8 months)likes to practise Pilates without letting go of my nipple. And she's a right pincher, keep telling her that breastmilk is not finger food but she doesn't listen!

When she was tiny, she used to sneak a hand up to my armpit, which was incredibly tickly

Nursing necklaces do work but I have to tie my hair up or the necklace catches the hairs around my neck as she's jiggling it about and that's sore too!

Mind you, I came home after a night out once and DD had been a bit unsettled, so we got straight into bed for a feed - she was scoffing away with the palm of her hand placed on my cheek looking most intently at me and didn't move it for about half an hour when she finally dropped off. That's got to be one of my most lovely memories of bfing...but these days she's more likely to try and poke me in the eye!

You missed nipple twiddling off there.

Can'tBloodyStandThatTiggaxx

I know I shouldn't laugh at your misfortunes, but they had me laughing out loud! My DS used to all of those things as well as headbutting my boob to make the mlk come out faster when he was really hungry... I used hold his hand which worked for a while, but I found as I started weaning him, he did it less and less until it was just the evening feed when he was really tired.

He did bite a couple of times but I unlatched hm really quickly and said 'NO' quite loudly, right in his face and he stopped doing it pretty quick.

DS screams very loudly between sides, even if I am hurrying as fast as I can to flip him over and unbutton. Nightmare in public. I keep telling him to grow up.

He also does all of the arm-waving, lip-grabbing and head-turning. Sometimes he rears up like a cobra, nipple in mouth, then plummets back down again. Ouchie. And sometimes he rakes my arm/side with his lower hand, ploughing like a cat.

I do love it when he just strokes my skin over and over again. And the cheeky grins. And when he drops off to sleep but keeps feeding.

I've had a nursing necklace a while and now the gentle patting has turned to painful pinching I'm very grateful for it. I got mine from www.babybeads.co.uk - DS loves it. Had the 'tuning in' for the first time the other day - he had a very intense look of concentration like he'd only just noticed where exactly his milk had been coming from the last six months.

DD is 2.9 and still feeding. I still have to actively stop the twiddling of the other side. It's like an instinct, her hand creeps into my top and she starts fiddling. Now I can tell her no and she laughs at me but over 2.3yrs of it and I haven't broken the habit. They do it because it stimulates letdown and speeds up the flow. At first at least, then it's habit. Unbreakable habit.

DD also feeds on one side while twisting round athletically, pushing my top up on the other side and rearranging her blanket before unlatching on the side she's feeding and quickly replacing with the other side. She leaves less than a second between the two. She's slowly self-weaning and these are the things I'll miss.

Stealing my specs from off my face! So I can't read/watch TV or whatever I am trying to do until I have prised them back out of her grip- which is not as easy as you might imagine!