comfort nursing
Non-nutritive breastfeeding sessions
Comfort nursing is breastfeeding for soothing rather than nutrition.
Infants nurse to calm down, fall asleep, or feel secure, not because they're hungry.
The term appears in parenting discussions when distinguishing between feeding and emotional regulation: She's not hungry—she's just comfort nursing.
Also called non-nutritive sucking.
- breastfeedingLactation-based infant nourishment
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
- latchDoor-securing catch
- sucklingUnweaned infant mammal
- pacifierInfant sucking device
on demand · warmth · bonding · nighttime · sleepy · nuzzling · cuddle · skin-to-skin · gentle · snuggling · milk · drowsy · closeness · nurturing · calming · maternal · cradling · nourishment
- infant feedingbaby bottle, baby formula, bottle feeding, formula feeding, infant formula
comfort nursingcry it out
Weep until spent
pacifier use · self-soothing · thumb sucking · swaddling · white noise
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