Baby Biting While Nursing!!! - Downers Grove,IL

When my daughter started doing that, I would immediately pull her off the breast and say NO sharply and sternly. We would then resume. If she bit again during that same nursing session, I would again pull her off the breast, say NO again and end the nursing for a little while and we would go do something else. I'd wait about 20-30 minutes, then resume again. That would usually take care of it and she did learn rather quickly.

You may have to repeat the above scenario a few times. Good luck!

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my kids didnt bite me too often but when they did i would scream and it would scare them (obviously i wouldnt scream on purpose!) so they wouldnt do it too often bc they dont like being scared.
one of my kids did bite me on purpose a couple times and i had to stop breastfeeding her and she got mad (she was a year old) and she would remember the next time and not do it.

good luck!

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My son kept doing this and I took him off, yelled no, then laid him down for his nap without nursing. He cried and cried but never bit me again.

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This is kind of similar to what Abbie said. When she bites you, pull her head in close to your breast so that her nose is pressed against your breast and blocked. She won't like it and will open her mouth and turn her head away. After doing this a few times she should begin to associate the biting with this unpleasant feeling and will stop.This was the only thing that worked to get my daughter to stop biting me during her nursing sessions.

Good luck!

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If she bites you plug her nose. It's unpleasant and she will have to open her mouth (to breathe) therefore less damage to your breast. I agree that if it happens again, end the nursing session.

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This method works fast but needs complete consistency.

First bite: Sternly state "No biting" and remove the infant from the breast and sit them away from you for 5 mins. If the baby cries for you or the breast, WAIT until the full 5 minutes if over.

2nd bite: Sternly state "No biting" and remove the infant from the breast and sit them away from you for 15 mins. If the baby cries for you or the breast, WAIT until the full 15 minutes if over.

3rd bite: Sternly state "No biting" and remove the infant from the breast and sit them away from you until the next nursing session. If the baby cries for you or the breast, console but do not allow to breastfeed until the next nursing session (at least an hour).

This should take between 1-3 days to change the behavior that as soon as you say "No biting" sternly, she will immediately stop. Nothing wrong with teaching older infants nursing manners... that way you don't feel forced to force wean them before they are ready.

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MY 10 month old has SIX sharp teeth! She only seems to bite me when she's not really hungry and would rather play, but I AM WANTING her to feed (i.e at nap time). I pull her off right away, say NO. If she does it again, that's my cue - she's really not interested. Honestly, we're down to only 2 sessions/day, because she just isn't interested in nursing during the day anymore. She wants to be up, looking at the action, more interested in table food, and we even started a sippy cup with pumped breastmilk for a while. I pumped for a while, and now we're supplementing with formula. I wanted to exclusively breast feed for a year (I'm loving it), but am tired of fighting with her. She's moved on.

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This is what my mom did when I bit her while nursing. She popped my mouth with two fingers and removed me from her breast and spoke a bit sharply and a bit loud. I cried, and she waited a bit, then nursed me again. I never bit her again.

Some babies take a little more than once to figure out not to do it. It's fine to do this, and it's better than getting your nipple bittn so badly that it bleeds.

Good luck,
D.

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My youngest is 4.5, but when any of my kids bit when I was nursing I would push their little faces more into my breast so they HAD to let go. They didn't like it and I only had to do that a few times with each baby before they stopped biting. You won't hurt her and she'll get the point.

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I didn't have much luck with telling mine no.. never tried the plugging of the nose. She was pretty much ready to stop BF so we did. Best of luck.

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