Julie,
Actually the reason for doing either is the same - wake the baby to get the
baby to take a full meal.  It's the taking the baby off the breast to rouse
the baby that's important.  At this point I would opt to put the baby back on
the same breast unless the baby is coming off the breast while awake and
alert. (which wasn't what you asked about).

Dori Dorfman, MPH, IBCLC
New Jersey
> For sleepy =
> newborns, not nursing effectively,   one of LLL's recommendations is to =
> practice "super switch nursing," moving the baby to the other breast as =
> soon as he stops sucking actively.  Others suggest using other measures =
> to wake the baby and then putting him back onto the same breast because =
> frequent switching will mean he only gets foremilk, wheras keeping him =
> on the same breast for a while will get him more hindmilk


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