| If you want to know if the baby still wants to feed again place her cheek on your breast. If she’s still wants to nurse she will start rooting and try to latch.
When babies are little if they don’t want to nurse they usually fall asleep but as they grow older, say around four months old, they will wriggle and try to get down or sit in your arms and smile at you.
One of the advantages of breastfeeding is that it makes babies sleep. If they aren’t tired they usually fall asleep for about a minute and then wake up again but if they are tired they’ll stay asleep. It is truly an advantage with an over tired baby who doesn’t really know what to do with himself. Five to ten minutes breastfeeding and he’s asleep – and peace reigns again.
Why are you so against feeding to sleep? Some of my favourite memories are my babies asleep in my arms after breastfeeding. |