Biting & Breastfeeding

If you take her off the breast firmly say no biting and then sit her on the floor and walk away you will only have to do it once or twice. It will devastate her (and you) but she will get the message quick. When you go back to her calmly tell her that there is no biting. Good Luck - I can relate

first of all i LOOOOOVE the name caydence! just absolutely love it. with biting, i lightly flick my son's cheek (just hard enough to startle him) and say "NO!" or "no biting" or "don't bite momma" and there is ususally some kind of ouch or something because it's so startling and painful to me...i don't have to remember to express that it hurts me! usually this only happens when he's getting a new tooth. once i flick him once or twice it's a very long time until he does it again. also, then tend to do this when they are done eating and want to start playing. so if it seems like she's probably been eating long enough to feed her belly and then she bites you, she might be done, and you can cover up and sit there and play with her instead, offering another type of play other than her playing with your very sensitive nipple! good luck!

You take her off the breast and say "No, you do not bite!" Then you put her back on the breast. When she does it again you do the same thing but you take you pinter finger and your middle finger and you tap her leg a couple of times. Not hard enough to hurt her but enough to get her attention. She will understand what you are telling her. I breast fed my daighter for 1 whole year and yes I got bit many times but I did that very thing and she would only do it one time per nursing. If she even bit me at all. Sometimes she thought it was funny and would laugh. Then I would take it away from her for about 5 minutes and she didn't like that but I got my point across. I wish you all the best. You are doing a beautiful thing for your baby.

I feel your pain! I actually asked the same question on here 2 months ago. My son does the same thing when he's teething. I tried paying really close attention when he's nursing because they will show you a sign before they bite. After she bites you if you don't catch it set her down and say firmly no biting and don't feed her for a few minutes. Soon she will learn. Also if you do figure out your babys sign, try putting your finger in the side of her mouth that way she get your finger and you can save your nipples!Good luck!

My daughter starting biting me around that time and I couldn't do anything about it. At around 7 months she bit me so hard she drew blood and I was sure that she had bit my nipple off, it hurt so bad. I just had to give up on breastfeeding. I didn't want to but I wanted to save my nipples.

Both of my kids went through this. They are just not sure what to do with those new teeth. We made it through and they both nursed until they were way too old so I know you will make it through too! : )

My solution that really worked well sounds a little mean, but it is advice from Martha Sears, one of the attachment parenting biggies. When the baby bites, instead of pushing off like you instinctively do, you pull them toward you and squish them into your breast. They are very uncomfortable and feel like they are suffocating. Obviously, you are just going to do this for a second, so you won't actually hurt them. As you do this, make a big deal out of how much they hurt you and let them really see that you are upset.

My kids got through that stage really quickly once I learned this trick. Good luck and happy nursing!

you do NOT need to inflict harm on your poor baby!!!

andrea s is right on with the pulling baby into the breast instead. my son hardly bit at all when we did that (and he chewed on EVERYTHING, still does at age 2).

when she's older (and getting in canines or such, which are tougher on them) and does it, you can unlatch and say "mimi doesn't work when you bite. biting hurts mimi (or whatever you call nursing in your home)" and end the nursing session temporarily. after a few seconds or minutes, resume nursing. believe me, it only takes a couple times before they stop biting the boob that feeds them! ;) (and once again, you are not inflicting physical pain on your child)

i'm a sahm to a nursing toddler boy of 2.

I never had a problem wiht my dd biting me and she got teeth at 3 mths old and i was still nursing then. You may want to pull her away from breast when she bites and say no sternly and keep doing that and she'll learn that its a bad thing to do.