I have to disagreed, respectfully, with Beverley Walker's 13 Oct post. My personal experience was what convinces me that "one side at a feed" CAN be the right pattern for some mother-baby pairs. My two kids, born 1968 and 1978 (before the Fisher and Woolriudge articles were published!), both began doing a lot of spitting up around 2-3 months of age. I was faithfully nursing on both breasts at each feed, because that was what we were told to do in those days---if we were lucky enough to be told anything! On my own, I figured out that if we fed on one breast at a session, both baby and I were more comfortable, and they still gained just fine. In fact, sometimes I'd let the baby snack on the right any time he wanted to nurse during a 2-3 hour period, then snack on the left any time he wanted in the next 2-3 hours. I remember a friend visiting us, who had nursed her kids in the 50s and 60s, and she commented during dinner--"Don't you ever switch sides---he's been on the left all through dinner!" and I replied, "Well, I'm right-handed, so this makes it easier to eat. And I'm saving the right side for bedtime."