Dd is 10 mo and has been ebf to 5 months and then mostly finger food since. Appetite for food waxes and wanes but she has always breastfed well and on demand. In particular she likes to feed in her sleep for much of the night (we cosleep) latching on to feed gently for 20 mins at a time several times in the night.
She has bitten me on and off but I have taken her off and said 'no' and we've done something else. She recently started doing this again - always accompanied by a cheeky grin.
Since Monday though we've had a different kind of biting. She literally goes on for a second, then bites, then when I take her off cries and screams, it's as though she just wants to bite.
On Monday she started this at 1pm and finally went to sleep (haing eaten some solids but not fed from me) at 9pm when I was able to then feed her in her sleep. Yesterday she was fine until 1pm again when she had a long sleep and was then fine until the evening. Last night she would hardly sleep at all and was up screaming half the night. She has had solids this morning but no milk and I have just got her off to sleep again with a back rub and a cuddle - her screaming the whole time. I can't stress how unusual this crying is for her - she has probably cried for no more than 5 minutes at a time since she was born.
She is OK in herself at other times and it does seem to be mixed in with sleeping. I also think it's behavioural not physical, I have plenty of milk and she feeds between times. But I am very worried - does anyone have any advice or experience of this rather than the usual cheeky biting?