Baby is refusing my left breast

[fawnanddoe]

I finally got him to latch on today, once, but for the past two days whenever I try to nurse DS on my left breast he gets super fussy and refuses it. I switch him to my right and he immediately latches on and it's fine.
He is 2 weeks and 3 days old. I think he is going through a growth spurt right now because he's been doing some cluster nursing (and gained 4 oz. in one day!), he's been pretty fussy for the past two days.
My left breast keeps getting so engorged and I have to keep pumping it cause he won't nurse. Is anyone else going through something similar? Anyone have any ideas of why he won't nurse on the left?

[bender]

I had this on my right side, at about the same age as well. I switched holds on him and tricked him into thinking he was nursing on his favored side.

[heidirk]

If ds2 is very fussy/gassy, he will refuse the right side. In those cases, I think it just feels better to lay on his left.

Also, when his tooth came in, he wanted his 'preferred' side.

[LilMomma83]

DS1 (now 26mos and still BF) has always preferred my left...now that he can talk, he says there is more milk in that one, and when I pump, I do actually et twice as much from his preferred breast than his less preferred. Interesting....

[Marsupialmom]

A stuffy nose or stuffed up ears can do this. My dd perfer one side because it put her good ear up.

Try chaning your hold like football or laying down.

[KristaDJ]

Originally Posted by bender

I had this on my right side, at about the same age as well. I switched holds on him and tricked him into thinking he was nursing on his favored side.

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[nummies]

Originally Posted by bender

I had this on my right side, at about the same age as well. I switched holds on him and tricked him into thinking he was nursing on his favored side.

Yep. Or snuck in the left boob while he was half asleep.