Mine went thru a phase like this. We just had to put up with the fussiness until it passed because I didn’t want my supply affected. Good luck!

I noticed this with my daughter right away. She always preferred the right side and 11 months later, she still does. I would just start her on the right and then switch, sometimes switching after I felt the let down and then switching her back to the right side to finish up. Now she will start on the left but it is pretty quick and then she nurses for a long one on the right!

Yes you will probably become lopsided. It happened to me too. Hopefully he will begin to love both again!

Yup, my baby did the same thing – she’d actually go through phases of preferring one boob over the other. For awhile, I’d always start her on her least favorite boob so that at least she was hungry then and would empty but if she really started getting cranky I’d switch her over. I also just went back and forth a few times in a session instead of just once. My left boob was my massive overproducer – sometimes I’d get twice as much from that boob as I did from my right, all the way up until the very end. I always was a bit lopsided but it wasn’t ever too obvious.

Oh, I also would do the reverse hold on the boob she didn’t like, to try to trick her into thinking it was the other one. Sometimes that would work well.

Ive been nursing on only my left boob for 8 months now. I have to stuff my bra on the right side with TWO chicken cutlets.

Julie- i’m with you sister! its nice to know Im not the only one!!!!

Hi Melissa! I’ve been seeing a chiropractor during my pregnancy and have a good friend who is a chiropractor as well. I’ve heard both of them tell of situations like this where the baby prefered one side, but after an adjustment or two they were back to both sides with no problems. They’ve said baby’s get subluxations like adults do and then compensate to be comfortable. I don’t know if you’ve ever considered chiro care for your children, but we plan to use it in conjunction with traditional pediatrics. Best of luck! :)

I second the chiro recommendation. It may be something as simple as a kink in his neck.

Yep, my Phoenix preferred the left side and would fuss and fuss when I tried to nurse on the right. And yep…eventually the boobs did get lopsided! I tried to pump to compensate on the side he didn’t like, but it’s true that the babies do a better job of regulating milk supply, so eventually the supply lessened a great deal on my right side too. The good news is, once he weaned my boobs went back to the same size, yay ha!

My son always preferred my right side, which I called my “super boob” because it never failed to deliver. It got to the point where he would only nurse on the right, and yes, I was lopsided and eventually the left side dried up completely (but I was still able to continue nursing him for 25 months). My now three-month-old daughter, however, seems to prefer my left side, which blows that whole “super boob” theory out of the water.

The best advice I can give is to pump the side he doesn’t like in effort to keep your supply (and cup size) even. Good luck!

Yes, lopsided boobs. Mine seemed to be a response to an over active let down. Both sides shot like a water cannon but the left was worse than the right. Once he was able to easily handle the heavy flow he went back to nursing on both sides.

My little man had terrible reflux the first 5 months but it got a lot better once he adjusted to the heavy let down.

Hang in there :)

So glad I’m not the only one! My four-month-old has always preferred my right side and I had to massage my left side in the beginning to encourage adequate production. The past couple weeks she has done exactly what you describe, fussing and refusing the left side. I wasn’t pumping and actually ended up with mastitis on that side because of her decreased interest (and I had a clogged duct). Check for that. I also think my left is smaller and has a slower let down. Like others have suggested, I start on the left (the least preferred side) when she’s hungry and try to get her to take as much as possible. Then I switch to the right, which she always likes, and then switch back to the left. What has also really helped for me is to nurse in different positions: for example, laying down or getting on your hands and knees and dangling the least-preferred breast above her with your elbows bent on the floor. This has helped me get her to nurse much longer on the least preferred side when she really refuses to nurse for long. I’ve also tried putting a rattle in her hand or giving her something to grab on when she’s nursing on the least preferred. It’s a good distraction. Just keep encouraging that side and hopefully you’ll be back to even or almost equal interest.

My little one did this for a short time, too. It sounds like it is super common! She, like Arlo, didn’t show her preference for the first few months and then out of nowhere decided she only wanted to nurse on the right side. She didn’t keep it up for very long and eventually went back to nursing from both, but my right breast still produces more than my left. We call them “lunch boob” and “snack boob” because of it. I suspect that this would have been the case no matter what and possibly even the cause of her decision as well since it really wasn’t such an extended period of time that she preferred one over the other.
I wish I could be the shining hope and disagree with all the other ladies, but it does leave you lopsided. My biggest concern is if I’m going to stay this way after I stop nursing! I may need to start practicing my lean to the left.