Boob biting

[Wereeaglesdare]

My DD (13 months) has started to bite me almost every breastfeed. She does feed quite a lot in the day and at night. This has only started since cutting a new tooth but it has gotten to the point were I am afraid to put my boob in her mouth. She smiles when I say don't bite mummy. Do I just take this as a sign that the breastfeeding times are over? Ideally I would have liked to have gotten to 15 months.
Also I don't know how I'm going to get her to sleep without the boob everything else has failed in the past. The only way I can get her to sleep is by Co sleeping and breastfeeding. If anyone has had a biting baby would appreciate some advice on what to do? Thanks.

I can remember my first biting me and almost giving up. I phoned one of the BFing Helplines and was given some tips to try. Can’t remember what they were now, but I’d definitely give one of them a call and talk to a BFC

My DD bit me a couple of times with first teeth coming through around 11 months. I just took her off and said no biting, waited a moment and then popped her back on. I doubt the words meant anything to her at that age, but she seemed to understand the consequence pretty quickly and stopped biting. I’m sure they do it partly as curiosity in the same way as they test absolutely everything else in their lives. If they don’t like the effect, they don’t repeat the experiment much.

No advice regarding ending feeding to sleep. I didn’t do that till much later. One thing I would say though - don’t feel that you have to end those unless you want to. I was really worried by people saying I was making a rod for my back, or that my DD would never self-settle if I didn’t teach her young. Never happened. We didn’t night wean till she was 2, and we did it by reading stories about it and talking about it. We swapped it for a cuddle and an extra song at bedtime. Very smooth transition with almost no fuss and her sleep as a 3 year old has been wonderful so far.