10 Month Old Son Biting Please Help?

This sounds harsh, but hear me out.

We had a LOT of problems with this too, and I was the only one getting bitten. I tried everything I could think of. Some suggested time out where the child would put their face on the couch cushions for 1 minute (DIDN'T WORK!) another suggested soap, (seemed too harsh for 10 mos), dr suggested what you are doing, walking away.

My husband was home to witness this and he turned around and bit my daughter back. Now it wasn't hard, but enough to get her attention. Then he calmly said, "That hurts. When you do this to Mommy, that's how you make her feel, do you like how that feels?".

I swear, from that point on, she would get her mouth on my arm and get ready to bite me, and then she would stop and say "No bite" and walk away.

FROM: D. L

DATE: August 31, 2009

Being a mother of 3, eldest 27 and the youngest 17, what I could recalled is that whenever they are teething and the first tooth push out and the 1st person to see and talk about it, that is the person that gets the most bite up. So sorry if you were the 1st.

Do you mean when he is nursing? If so, a counter-intuitive but effective trick is to pull his head in closer to your breast. I think why this works is it makes it harder to breathe so they open their mouth. I sympathize, we are teething pretty hard around here right now!

He's teething!

Get him something to chew on or relieve his gums and say NO NO firmly and tap his lips and be firm that's about all you can do.

Well, my only suggestion would to just keep reinforcing 'no bite' to him. My 3 year wasn't a biter until he hit 2ish. It was a total frustration thing. I was even more frustrated! Anyway, you're little guy is probably teething so I would keep things for him to chew on handy instead of you. You know they have short memories! So by the time you tell him 'no bite' (on you) he's forgotten. I think I may have experienced it a little though with my oldest, just can't remember that far back.