No comfort nursing?

[Robynee]

Ds1 was a big comfort nurser. If he was tired, cranky, hurt, whatever, he wanted to nurse. It always made everything better and it was an easy way to keep him happy.
Sean is the total opposite. If he is upset for any reason besides hunger, he will scream if my nipple goes near his mouth. When he is done eating, he doesn't lounge around, he pushes my breast away and sits up.
Also, he hardly ever falls asleep nursing. He falls asleep much quicker if I put him in bed with his pacifier. It is nice in some ways but I can't help but feel a little sad.
Does anyone else have a "nursing is for calories only" baby?

[mamamilkers]

Yes! I do! DD won't comfort nurse for anything. It drives me crazy! She also hardly ever falls asleep nursing, but will if she's just super tired and happens to be hungry at the same time I guess we'll never have to break them of that "bad habit" of nursing to sleep then, huh?

[ColoradoMama]

Dd2 was a lot like that. It was really weird for me. With the first two we did a combination of mama led-child led weaning to get them weaned at 3 1/2. Dd2 self weaned at 2 1/2. After having two big comfort nursers, I had to learn a whole new set of parenting skills!

[SummerTwilight]

Aria loves to nurse but if she isn't tired or hungry she goes balistic when I try to put her near my breast. Starts YELLING up a storm at me, it is hysterical. But since she does really like to nurse before falling asleep (she doesn't usually fall asleep on the breast but a few minutes after feeding) she will be crabby if she is overtired and then won't take the breast.
But she could be starving and if there are people around she will rarely eat. She would rather sit up and run in place and yammer at them and watch them talk too. I often have to leave the room and then she just stares at the door.

[Robynee]

I have a real hard time NIP too. I always want to, just to make a statement, but he pops off and looks around all the time. It not only hurts, but it turns me into a flasher.

[JenMidwife]

we've actually changed! up until 3.5 mos, Erin would nurse 24/7 if she could. knew how to comfort nurse & also keep up w/ my let-down & oversupply from the get-go. If ever there was a baby who was born to bf, it was her!

But around 3.5 mos, she started getting easily distracted, like so many of your dc, & now will only nurse in a quiet room & even then, when she's done, she's done! I think if she had it her way, she wouldn't nurse at all during the day & would just nurse all night long

I've found her developement fascinating....

[taradt]

Originally Posted by JenMidwife

we've actually changed! up until 3.5 mos, Erin would nurse 24/7 if she could. knew how to comfort nurse & also keep up w/ my let-down & oversupply from the get-go. If ever there was a baby who was born to bf, it was her!

We have the opposite... Kienan would only nurse to eat for his first few months, now he will happily nurse for comfort/to sleep but only if *he* wants it So no trying to top him up before we go anywhere

tara

[Tofu the Geek]

Same here. My first DD was a comfort nurser. With this baby, if she's every upset about something, she screams if the boob comes near her face! She'd rather be cuddled and have her head rubbed. She does like to nurse before she falls asleep but most often, unlatches before she actually falls asleep. She is also way more easily distracted than my first one. She'll look around and stretch my nipple back real far and snap off. It's painful! I am still trying to figure out how to teach her not to do that! I tried yelling "ouch", but it didn't even phase her.

[veganf]

#1 - MAJOR comfort nurser, in addition to his paci.
#2 - NO comfort nursing, except HAD to be nursed to sleep.
#3 - NO daytime comfort nursing, only at night. Will nurse to sleep at naptime maybe 60% of the time, but is perfectly happy being laid down alone to fall asleep.

If Nate tries to nurse at other times during the day he gets very distracted, pulling off constantly and often dragging my nipples through his teeth (he has 5). OW!!

[2 in August]

I think we are going through some sort of change too. Ian will wake up (the last few nights, off and on for the last week or so) at 3am and just scream bloody murder. I'm back to sleeping on the couch with him because I thought I could help him calm down better that way, but it isn't working. He doesn't show any signs of waking up and suddenly he's shrieking and if I try to nurse him he pulls away and yells even more. I try every one of my tricks and he will not settle down. Sometimes teething tabs work, sometimes anti-gas meds, sometimes putting him down, sometimes nothing. Last night he did that for close to an hour then I tried one more time to nurse him and he latched on and passed out again like nothing ever happened. It just happened again a few hours ago. I figured he was tired and hungry but he refused to latch on and cried for close to an hour while I tried everything and daddy tried all his tricks, sis sang him a song, gave up and played in her room till he fell asleep. Again, he just decided to nurse after all that unhappiness. He always nurses to sleep, so it is so confusing when he's so upset and gets more upset when I try to nurse him.