Perhaps, you should
Some mothers prefer to feed sitting, and it is more convenient to another to do it lying in a bed.
Put the child near yourself and lay down sideways facing him.
Draw near closer it until the nipple touches his lips.
Perhaps, you should enclose a pillow under an elbow that the breast was in the correct family way.
As soon as the child feels a nipple about the lips, he will stretch to it, trying to seize him with a mouth.
You can hold a breast with a finger that it was easier for child to breathe, but usually in it there is no need.