Biting While Feeding
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14 Month Old Biting While Nursing
Asked by S.S. from Macon
on November 30, 2006
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My 14 month old son has recently started biting me every time he nurses. I know he is getting back teeth in but recently he bites every time he nurses. I might get l...
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- Try a FIRM, "No". Try not to look surprised, or shocked. Immediately after you say, "No"...take him away from your breast and stop the feeding. My baby did it at li...
- First let me say how sorry I was to read that you lost a child. That is unimaginable for me and very heart breaking to hear. If I may ask, how did she pass?As far as t...
- My little girl used to bite me too. What I did to get her to stop was as soon as she started to bite, I put my finger in between my beast and her lip. When she bit dow...
8 Mo. Old Biting After Every Nursing
Asked by M.M. from Las Cruces
on September 1, 2008
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For about two to two and a half weeks my 8 mo. has been biting down after nursing. I breastfeed on one breast and it is like his little signal that "excuse me but thi...
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- I would suggest that you take him off the breast before he gets to the point of chomping down. Gauge the amount of time he normally feeds for, and then remove him a f...
- My son did the same thing. He only did it when he was teething. After the tooth came through, he stopped biting. (Until the next tooth came along.) Telling him no ...
- The most important thing is to not reward him when he does something you don't like. When my one-year old daughter bites, I tell her firmly, "NO!" and then she's all ...
How to Stop My Baby from Biting Me While Breast-feeding
Asked by R.W. from Savannah
on May 20, 2008
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My 9 month old is exclusively breast-fed and we've had no problems until today. she now has upper and lower teeth and bit me 4 times while nursing this afternoon. i ...
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- I have nursed my three children until they were over fourteen months old. My daughter was the only one that bit me. For her, when she would bite, I always would remov...
- R., you may want to go a year with the breastfeeding but it may time to get started now with the weaning. The tension it is creating between you and your daughter is n...
- Good advice so far. Just to add a little bit, I used to keep my finger right by the back of my sons gum so when he started to bite down I would put my finger between t...
8 Mo. Old Biting During Breastfeeding - HELP!
Asked by M.R. from Dallas
on March 1, 2009
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My 8 month old son has just started biting me during breastfeeding. Usually at the end of a feeding, always right on the very tip of my nipple. He has two teeth in the...
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- My dd was 8 mo. when she bit me. The first time when she was unlatching and she caught my nipple and it cut through. Very painful. I started massaging her gums befo...
- alright - it's not so pleasant - but it works. A little finger flick of his cheek right when he does it along with a stern 'no' usually works - it may sting a tiny bit...
- I don't know a lot about stopping the biting, since mine didn't do it for very long, but I saw that you said he usually bites at the end of the feeding and thought I'd...
NURSING MOMS HELP!! My 8 Month Old Is Biting Me, I Don't Know What to Do!!!
Asked by L.M. from New York
on December 22, 2011
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Hi, it's my third child, I only nursed my first two a few months, no teeth were in the mix. My 8 month old son has his 2 bottom teeth and he is now biting me, HARD. I ...
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- Take him off, say NO BITING, and have him sit facing away from you like a mini time out for a minute or so, then try again. My 5th did this bad and broke the skin too...
- If he is biting - he is not latched on and drinking. You can't bite and drink at the same time. Pull him off the breast - say NO BITING - then try to re-latch. If h...
- Whenever he does it, say no and take him off the breast for a minute. Do this EVERY time he bites. It only took my daughter 2 times to learn that food stopped when s...
Help Me! My Baby Bites So Hard While Nursing He Drew Blood! Any Suggestions?
Asked by J.J. from Dallas
on October 27, 2008
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My son just turned 9 months old and started biting me while nursing a few weeks ago. I was really hoping to continue nursing him until he was a year old, but he has 2 ...
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- J., It sounds like you're doing everything I would say to do with nursing. All I can say is OUCH! I hope it gets better soon. On a different note, I moved h...
- when mine started biting that's when we had to stop bf...not sure if there's much else you can do
- Nipple shields work. I have a 2mo. that sucks too hard and my doc suggested them. I got them at target. they take a minute for the baby to get use to but then they fig...
Ouch! My 5 1/2 Month Old Bit Me While nursing...hard!
Asked by T.S. from Chicago
on January 27, 2008
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I did see there was another post about this but the baby was over 7 months. My son got his first two teeth (bottom) about 3 weeks ago. Since then, he has bitten me a...
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- He can learn not to bite. My last guy got teeth at 3mos! You may think this is cruel, but what I have always done is to flick them with my finger right under the chin....
- Hi T., All three of my kids bit me at one point during nursing. As soon as they did I would flick their cheek next to their mouth. It would "shock" them and they woul...
- Hi T., My 27 year old did this when she was teething,at 2 months!Her first teeth came at 2 months of age.The doctor told me to pop her on the cheek.(Which I did not d...
1-Year-old Bitting (Not a Nursing Question)
Asked by A.S. from Portland
on September 10, 2010
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My son just turned one last week. He is delightful except for the bitting!
For about a month he has been bitting. He bites everything. It is hard because I don't...
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- I went through the same thing. Directing him to something that he can bite is a good thing. I would say ouch! That hurts mommy, and gives her a boo-boo. Can you kis...
- So many great suggestions. A question here--is there some teething going on? Sometimes biting is a great relief for their little mouths, and if there's a lot of drool,...
- Tell him NO, then put him on the floor and walk out of the room. Leave him there for one minute. That's how we handled it with our boy, and he stopped biting us in a...
Biting During Nursing, Slow Let down Reflex, and Decreased Supply--help!
Asked by A.M. from San Francisco
on November 25, 2008
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Hi Moms,
I am in a bit of a predicament. Since my 7 1/2 month old starting teething (about a month ago), he's refused to eat any solid foods, including rice/oatmeal ...
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- Please don't take this as a sign that your baby is ready to stop breastfeeding. He is just in pain and can only get relief from nursing or biting. I breastfeed my fi...
- I agree with Desiree and Jill G. Also, even if he won't take the bottle, I'd do some pumping to keep the supply going until you resolve the problem using the methods ...
- Your body and your son are both telling you, in a strange way, that it is about time to stop nursing. By six months, an infant has received all of the antibodies that ...
Sick, Fever, Runny Nose, Biting While Nursing and Teething!!!
Asked by T.T. from Dallas
on December 30, 2011
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Ok. I'll try to keep the emotion/desperation to a minimum. Bottom line. My DD is 9 mths. She started running fever 48 hrs ago. She has stuffy nose and a cough. Took he...
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- My kids always ran a low grade fever when teething. Mine always had runny noses when teething. Did you tell your daughter's doc that hubby was sick too? Also, d...
- Awww....babies are so miserable when they are sick and I hate that they can't tell us exactly what is bothering them! One thing I've found to help with the stuffy nos...
- Boy do I feel for you! My baby is doing the same thing, stuffy, fever, teething, the works. The biting began a week ago and blood was drawn so for me the weaning begin...
