Biting while nursing

[atarianna]

I should know this but can you please help me figure out how to stop this?

He has 6 teeth now and just started doing it the other day. I immediately stop nursing when it happens but he laughs!

It's not funny! It hurts!!

[stacyb1983]

C is biting with her gums which still hurts like a SOB. I am trying to break her of the habit. I am terrified of her teeth coming in.

Her pedi said to pull he off, put her down and walk away. The pedi stressed not making it funny. I've done this, but she is still biting me.

[spk926]

I would pull her off and tell her no biting (not like she could really understand what I was saying anyway). If she kept biting then that nursing session was done.

[timorousbeastie]

DD does this for about a week every time she's about to cut a tooth. When she bites, I stop nursing her and put her on the floor. She then either melts down or laughs and crawls away. She doesn't stop biting until she finally cuts the tooth, but at least she then stops entirely.

[dougthedogsmom]

Could he be teething? I just went through this with DD while she was teething and damn did it hurt. I cried out a few times from pain and the little psycho laughed. Thankfully it passed after a few days. I just stopped nursing when she bit and then resumed a little while later if she showed signs of being hungry still. It usually happened after she was more or less done. Hopefully this passes for your son quickly too. I feel your pain, literally!

[halfpint]

I don't know if there's a way to make it stop. B did it every time he was cutting a tooth. Every single time. I just got really, really vigilant about watching for signs he was about to bite - he'd have to stop nursing and sort of drop his latch to do it - and then take him off. Once the tooth was through, he'd stop the biting.

Now that we're past all the main front teeth coming in, he never bites anymore. I just had to painfully grit my teeth and push on through.

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Dec 18, 2014 16:29:53 GMT -5 dougthedogsmom said:

Could he be teething? I just went through this with DD while she was teething and damn did it hurt. I cried out a few times from pain and the little psycho laughed. Thankfully it passed after a few days. I just stopped nursing when she bit and then resumed a little while later if she showed signs of being hungry still. It usually happened after she was more or less done. Hopefully this passes for your son quickly too. I feel your pain, literally!

Ok I definitely lost it at 'the little psycho laughed'.

[timorousbeastie]

Dec 18, 2014 16:29:53 GMT -5 dougthedogsmom said:

Could he be teething? I just went through this with DD while she was teething and damn did it hurt. I cried out a few times from pain and the little psycho laughed. Thankfully it passed after a few days. I just stopped nursing when she bit and then resumed a little while later if she showed signs of being hungry still. It usually happened after she was more or less done. Hopefully this passes for your son quickly too. I feel your pain, literally!

I forgot to mention this. This is definitely true for DD. She almost only bites when she's getting bored with nursing, as opposed to actively eating. So as soon as she starts to slow down when she's in a biting phase, I pop her off immediately. 

[caramia17]

I have a story about this....





Do not read on if you do not want a TMI story....





You have been warned....




Caramini had a cold. It was a nighttime feed around 8.5 months and she had 8 teeth. My let down was slower at night and she was fussy and I had just sucked out her boogers which she hated. She got frustrated waiting for the letdown and bit me. HARD. In the time it took to pull her off and call for my H, my bra and my shirt was soaked with blood. My H, who is a physician, had to look at my mangled nipple...it was mostly detached from my areola. I ended up having to have stitches and to pump and dump from that side for over a week due to large amounts of blood in my milk. Everytime I pumped I would open up the wound a little bit too. I was already pumping at work all day and I still nursed her in the AM after that, but I was too gun shy for evening nursing after that incident. Mostly my H gave her a bottle. Also, I ran into the surgeon who reattached my nip at a Christmas party. "Hello, good to see you again. Yes, no gangrene in my boobs! Yay!". Holy awkward, batman.

[missbella]

Dec 18, 2014 22:01:58 GMT -5 caramia17 said:

I have a story about this....





Do not read on if you do not want a TMI story....





You have been warned....




Caramini had a cold. It was a nighttime feed around 8.5 months and she had 8 teeth. My let down was slower at night and she was fussy and I had just sucked out her boogers which she hated. She got frustrated waiting for the letdown and bit me. HARD. In the time it took to pull her off and call for my H, my bra and my shirt was soaked with blood. My H, who is a physician, had to look at my mangled nipple...it was mostly detached from my areola. I ended up having to have stitches and to pump and dump from that side for over a week due to large amounts of blood in my milk. Everytime I pumped I would open up the wound a little bit too. I was already pumping at work all day and I still nursed her in the AM after that, but I was too gun shy for evening nursing after that incident. Mostly my H gave her a bottle. Also, I ran into the surgeon who reattached my nip at a Christmas party. "Hello, good to see you again. Yes, no gangrene in my boobs! Yay!". Holy awkward, batman.

This is terrifying! I am not looking forward to DS getting teeth. He bites pretty hard without them.