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persistent biting, with teeth, any advice?

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MamaChocoholic · 13/04/2011 20:25

dt1 has often bit (clamped her jaws shut) during a feed, but since bottom teeth erupted three weeks ago, it has got much more painful for me, and apparently more fun for her. it normally results in an (involuntary) scream, I pull her off or today I've been pulling her in to get her to let go and I say "no biting" and put her down. all but once she responds by laughing (she finds everything funny). that one time she really hurt me by ripping her head back while still clamped on and breaking my skin. I think my scream was so loud I scared her and she became reluctant to feed at all for a couple of days.

this has been going on so long and is getting worse rather than better. the most common times are when I try (tandem) feeding to sleep. I really don't want to lose the feed-to-sleep tool, having only recently regained it.

how did you deal with biting and did it work? when I take her off I normally wait a few seconds and cuddle her. should I put her right back to feed? would it be better try and space her feeds so she is hungrier? I tend to feed frequently because when one dt is just a little hungry s/he can get quite upset watching me feed the other.

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IAmTheCookieMonster · 13/04/2011 20:30

When DS went through a bitey phase I found that he didn't do it when he was sleepy so it didn't affect nights. He was 11 months so I bit the bullet and gave him formula for a couple of days while my nipples healed and he soon stopped biting! You could try a nipple shield or expressing. Keep going with the putting down.

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