New research out of the UK suggests that breastfeeding newborn babies lying down may help with breastfeeding success.  Dr Suzanne Colson, senior midwifery lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, recommends that mothers try a technique called biological nurturing.  In this technique the mother lies down and lets the baby lie on its tummy on top of her. 

When mothers were lying flat or semi-reclined, babies find the breast easier and in many cases can attach themselves to the breast.  The mother’s breastfeeding in these positions could also remain sleeping wile breastfeeding.  Researchers videotaped forty women breastfeeding in a sitting-up position and in a lying down or reclining in the first month of life.  They spotted seventeen different reflexes in babies when they were breastfed lying down.  Researchers found that mothers who breastfed lying down had more success with continued breastfeeding.