11mo biting everything

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Can this be normal - please reassure me. She bites towels and woolly clothes, takes a big bite and then pulls it away so she is left with threads in her teeth. She bites her board books and ends up eating the resulting bits of cardboard. She can give me a painful bite through jeans. She's now started on the sofa and no toy is safe. She even seemed happy biting a soapstone carving. We gently say no and move the thing away but it's hard when it's the towel you're drying her with or her coat.
So I'm hoping you will all tell me your dc's did this and it stopped at 12months. Thanks!

It's a developmental thing, she is using her mouth to help her to explore what things are like, a kind of sensory experimentation

teething too possibly?

have you tried her with a wooden spoon, a leather cuff, that kind of thing?

It is a phase and will pass

My DS still does it at 13 months. I think it's a exploring/tasting/teething thing too. DS's favourite things to bite are toes, especially if you have thick socks on

I love it. He gives me such a smile before he digs his little pegs in .

DS is 19 months a still biting, but he has got 7 teeth coming through at once poor love.

Thanks - I did give her a wooden spoon but she wasn't too interested. She does like her leather shoes to bite. And yes, almost certainly teething. I'm just worried she'll pull out the teeth she's got the way she gets fabric stuck and just pulls. Oh well.

Yes, teething started the biting thing for my DS2. Just watch your reactions to her biting you If you react too strongly in either a positive or negative way, what may have been cute in the beginning can turn into a nasty habit. So try and be matter of fact. And give Calpol /Ibuprofen if she's distressed

I agree...whenever DS1 bit me I would yelp as it bloody hurt! He then thought it was a game and kept doing it for months. DS2 does it too but I don't react and he seems to have stopped doing it pretty quickly.

My 11mo DD is doing it too - in fact she's more or less eaten an entire board book that way. I'm sure they grow out of it!