My DS is nearly 10mo, and we're having our first problems with BF since the early days - would appreciate a bit of advice/encouragement to keep us going.
He's recently got his top teeth, and has started biting - not yet a huge chomp, but lots of little nibbles and testing the water. I'm following the usual advice of firm 'no' and putting him down, but he doesn't seem to respond to that. Noticed this morning that I had little red teeth marks on my nipples - not impressed. I think he mainly does it when he's not really hungry and messing around - which links in to my other problem.
We're down to just 3 feeds during the day now - 7am, 3pm and 7pm. He's eating loads of solids, has a bottle at 10-11pm ish when we go to bed, then between 1-2 feeds during the night. Quite often he doesn't seem bothered about the BF during the day - he'll feed for a minute or so then get bored and start trying to bite me. Until very recently he's fed a lot at night, but last night he was fidgeting and nibbling again then - and I'm really really keen to start cutting down night feeds as I'm back to work in a fortnight.
So, what else can I do to stop the biting - BF is no longer nice and cuddly and it's making me quite stressed about feeding.
Then, my original plan was to carry on with the 7am/pm feeds once he's at nursery, with a bottle for the 3pm one. Will this work or will it kill off my supply (will have neither time nor energy to express during day)? Should I just call it quits now?
Generally I've enjoyed BF, and found it pretty easy, so I'd be sad to stop. But, the biting is really annoying me now. Plus, I've had a stinking cold/cough and would give my right arm to be able to take night nurse...