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Hi ssararh777.This is very common. Babies need to learn to accept both breasts. If you persevere in offering the unpreferred breast, he will eventually start to take it. Here's an analogy. Just because they don't like their vegetables doesn't mean they get a pass on not eating them. My dd hated my left breast from the time she was born. My right nipple was so raw and sore from her always taking that one. I kept offering her the left one and after about 3 weeks, she started to show a greater and greater interest. It took probably a good 3 months before she took them with the same interest. It's been 13 months now and I'm still nursing, although much less. I've never had milk production in my left as great as my right but it is still quite adequate.. Try putting him upside down on your left breast---you should see his feet in your face. Your dh will have to help you. One of you holds the breast off his nose, the other holds the feet from kicking you. Sounds strange but it really helps to get them comfortable with the unpreferred breast. Also, for about the first 9 months, I fed my dd off ONE breast for each feeding. I switched back and forth. She was in the 95th percentile for her weight until about a year where she levelled off.

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