New BF Mama & Baby with Hip Dysplasia

[sibbis_d]

Hi! I'm trying to help my SIL who is one week postpartum and has a little guy with hip dysplasia. He is in a parvik harness. The problem is more in his left hip than his right which is making for challenges at the right breast since he can't lay on his left side. She is already struggling with that breast because the baby seems to prefer the left one and has trouble latching on the right side. It's more full than the left one as well. She lives out of state but has described to me that her right nipple does not seem to stick out as much as the left nipple either.

Looking for positioning suggestions from BF gurus or anyone who successfully fed a baby with hip dysplasia from both sides! Thank you!

[motherhendoula]

No experience with Hip Dysplasia - but off the top of my head - use the 'football' hold.

Or have mom sit on the couch or lean back in bed...not full recline, but leaning back  bit...and have baby straight up and down - belly to belly, nose to nipple, baby will latch on his own.   Also if baby prefers one side over the other, try and play 'catch up' when baby is very sleepy - put him to the side he doesnt like....he may nurse while he sleeps without complaint.  Good luck to her!

[crystal_buffaloe]

Also no experience with hip dysplasia, just wanted to give this a bump and maybe an idea:

What about kind of an upright, biological nursing position? Baby is upright between boobs and then kind of angles over to one side or the other? (so baby's body doesn't make a rigid, horizontal line, but mom is laid back and baby is at more of a diagonal, laying against her chest/stomach)