So Mummies, I have a question for you. Do you have more milk on one side vs the other? Have you even thought about it? For me.... (even when I was nursing Pooker) I always had more milk in my right breast. It was much more infact that when I pumped, I would get an ounce or two more out of my right breast vs my left breast. I was happy to find that this was normal and I was not a freak of nature! Also, Pooker would prefer the right side over the left as well. I am still in that boat with Kit Kat, however she equally loves my right and left breasts!
So I began to think.... I wonder if having more milk on one side corresponds with whether you are right or left handed. I am right handed.... and produce more milk on my right side. So I wondered about other Mummies. I made a poll so we could all see the results.
Please take a short few seconds and take the poll and please leave a comment. Should be fun to see the results!!!!!!!
I think that this is very interesting. I also produce more, but it is on my left side...almost 2-3 oz. more (and that's the side that I had problems with mastitis). BUT, I am ambidextrous. I use my right hand to write and eat (most days), but I tend to do everything else with my left. I am trying now to nurse 2 times a day on the left and 3 times on the right to get my supply to even out...now that he's getting older.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the poll and the comment! I never thought to have that as an option! Ambidextrous should have been up there! Sorry Mummies!
ReplyDeleteHeres hoping you get your supply evened out! hehe And I thought 1-2 ounces more was a lot!!!!
wow i think i am in the vast minority. between my 2 kids i have been nursing for 76 months and i produce way more on my left side and i am right handed. I always thought it may have something to do with the fact that i tend to nurse them on my left so i can eat, type, write with my right hand so my left side got more stimulation but by the looks of the pole results so far it seems like i may be an oddball...thats kinda funny :o)
ReplyDeleteI think I must have clicked the wrong button! Cause I produced slightly more on the left side, but I am right handed. My first 3 children preferred the left side. I figured I was more comfortable holding them that way, so it made sense. Then baby#4 changed the rules! He loved the right side, not the left and had a stronger preference than the first 3. I voted around 5:13, so if I voted wrong, please see if you can changed it. Thanks! I will be interested in the results.
ReplyDeleteladies chat......i am not sure if you hit the wrong one or not....i think it looks right.
ReplyDeletethanks for voting!
i produce more on my left and i'm right handed, but the supply in my right has diminished after multiple clogged ducts
ReplyDeleteI produced about twice as much on my left side even though I am right handed. I was ambidextrous when I started school, but I was taught to be right handed.
ReplyDeleteI am right handed and produce more on my right. I noticed when my son was smaller I fed him on the right side more because it was more comfortable (in the chair I had) and also I'd sometimes forget what side I did last so I'd automatically do the right. I kindof wonder if I produced more on that side because it was used more.
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