Please help - at wits end with biting 15mo

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Hello

That’s it really

15mo DS is a happy loving souls but when even slightly tired or playing wrestle with his 3yo sister (light wrestling) he will bite.

He will stagger across the room, rest his hand on our knees then sink his teeth in.

At times I can’t hug him as I can’t risk any more bites and being bruised.

When he bites we say right in his face “WE DO NOT BITE” and then put him in the corner beside the dinner table (it’s a bit away from the main living room).

We have done this for weeks and it doesn’t work and I think he is a touch too young to “get” it.

FWIW he rarely bites at nursery
It’s extra bad when he’s teething
But he seems to have just constantly been pushing teeth through since 3mo; he has a near full set.

Please help. Any advice appreciated as I hate it when he bites and the whole happy atmosphere sours.

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When he looks like he's teething what do you give him? I found teething gel to be the most effective - can't remember the 'good' brand now unfortunately. I think it had a numbing agent and you could only use it every few hours.

My DS and a friends DS would both bite into our shoulders when tired. Does he have teethers? I would buy a really cool one (or a dog chew!) and when he comes over and 'looks bitey' I'd sit him on your lap and say 'we don't bite people, we bite our biting toys' and give him the teether.
DS had a triangle shaped nuby one he loved.

All of them get cast aside. The most headway we get is actually with giving him his plastic/rubbery spoons but they also get cast aside.

The problem is that when I don’t have my eyes on him because I’m literally looking the other way he will “butt” his head in and sink those teeth.

Today he bit me right on the boob (he’s not bf, it was a “playful nip”

Sore. As. Fuck. And when I scream in pain it scares DD.

Ouch :(

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Change the words. And you have to be quite strident and appear cross. An actual shout, but not really loud if you see what I mean.

Just say "NO!!! NO BITING!!!"

Pick him up facing away from you and plonk him unceremoniously down as far away as is possible in the room.

It's really normal. They do it because quite simply it feels nice. Carry on disciplining him but he will grow out of it. Our nursery looked out for 'crunch points' where kids were more likely to bite, things like waiting in a crowded corridor for a door to open... Obviously not the same at home but perhaps there are crunch situations you can avoid?

I have a little teething thing I keep next to me on the sofa - if he bites, or goes to, put the teething ring/stick or whatever in his mouth to bite on instead

Ouch. I would carry on as you are. I don’t think there is much else you can do. Hopefully it’s a phase he grows out of sooner rather than later.

My youngest was a bit of a biter, so you have my sympathies.

Ultimately, it was a phase she thankfully outgrew, but we have varying degrees of success with;

Crying really dramatically after being bitten, and ignoring her.

Shouting 'OWWW' really loudly, then ignoring her

Controversially, biting her back (although she was much older when I did this, and at the end of my tether).

Thanks all, what sucks is that a “crunch point” is giving him a cuddle or - the opposite - dealing with his sister.

Glad I’m not the only one with a bitey child who is otherwise sunny, happy and gorgeous.

Bite back, just sore enough to make him realise. Works every time !

I had a biter. Now aged 14 and lovely, not remotely " fighty" but still quite physically affectionate. Yy to poster who said it feels nice. Make sure you give him enough "real food" that needs biting eg chicken legs, big bits of meet. When D's was old enough he could tell me how much he loved sinking his teeth into flesh. It's actually really normal. It's also a bit a addictive they can get a "tasts" for it. I bit him back just once, was awful, didn't work would NOT recommend that at all. Constant vigilance is needed unfortunately until he grows out of it (for ds about 2 and a half)

Our experience was exactly the same as @Scotinoz. I don't know what else to advise you other than they stop, eventually.

My arms were black and blue for months, and DC1 got bitten a few times too.

My DS was a biter and the best thing that worked for me. Was to say no biting and remove myself so if he bit I would move to the sofa and not make eye contact with him for a period of time even if he cried.

I now need to sort the hair pulling

DS was a biter, he bit other kids at nursery too unfortunately
It was jst a case of him growing out of it, I wish I could say it was anything else but eventually he did jst grow out of it. He used to do the hug thing too, you’d think he was being affectionate then next thing he’d sink his teeth in. We used to do the NO really loudly then put him away from us and ignore him for a minute or two, he hated being ignored and gradually it got less and less. Perseverance and patience is the answer