Hi, been a bit worried about this , not sure whats going on with DD. She hasn't had a proper feed since Sunday lunchtime, now weds. She all of a sudden just started to properly bite me when I try to feed her - she seems to want it, I start to feed her, she bites the nipple, my boob, pulling away as well when clamped on, very painful!
She has only been feeding morning and evening now for ages, was beginning to seem less interested in the evening, but mornings is usually ravenous. She drinks a fair bit of milk in the day, but no more than 5 or 6 oz. Has lots of cheese, yoghurt etc, so not too worried about her milk intake, although also she has begun spitting the milk out, blowing raspberries whilst drinking, which is odd. She will drink water fine.
She recently has two bottom teeth come through, does seem to bother her a bit, but she has fed fine through them cutting, this is recent.
I managed to feed her yesterday as she was half asleep on me and woke briefly, didn't bite then.
Just wondering if anyone thinks this is self weaning, and should I be trying to get her to drink more milk/give her more cheese etc? Not really sure how much is recommended at this age?
I am feeling a bit down about it, also got my period back recently, so very hormonal and a bit fed up, does anyone know if stopping suddenly like this, even after only a couple of feeds a day, always results in being hormonal/getting sore?
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13mnth old biting, hsn't fed for few days - self weaning?
missmakesstuff · 18/05/2011 21:16
Not sure really, but did the return of your period coincide with this biting?
Periods can make your supply drop a bit so maybe this has been frustrating for her?
Hope someone else can offer some suggestions for you. 
I did consider this, this is my second one since she was born, started yesterday but she has been biting since Sunday - can't remember if she was biting last time, certainly wouldn't have been as bad as this though, I would have remembered that!
She doesn't seem bothered that she isn't feeding though, its mainly me thats a bit silly about it 
. She just btes, then sucks her thumb! It is just so strange.
Had hoped to keep going for a bit longer, although she really wasn't able to be settled to sleep by feeding anymore, it did comfort her, she has her jabs coming up and was relying on it!
Kellymom has links at the bottom of that page - here are some of them: LLL FAQs, LLL and a whole lot of other links.
Old MN threads for around the 8-10 month age here, here, here and here.
I think the most important thing is patience. I think in our case DS didn't resume normal feeding till he'd had antibiotics for long enough to clear the ear infection.
12 days seems to be longer than the average as far as I can tell. The longest I've heard of was 40 days. 
Expressing will help your supply. Of course it will dip, but it's unlikely to fail completely. I didn't manage to express a lot while DS was on strike, although I could feed him a bit when sleepy / asleep. When my DS resumed feeding, he had looooooong feeds for a few days while he increased my supply, then he went back to a 'normal' feeding pattern.
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