6 month old biting when try to b/f

[Em32]

Any tips please? It is getting to the stage where I don't want her to latch on as she immediately bites me. She's only got two teeth at the bottom but it really hurts. (At the moment she feeds once in the night and three times in the day so I don't think she's going off her milk) Thanks

I went through the same thing a ds 11 months nothing helped but on Kellymom.com there might be some info.
I got afraid of bf because of it and had to stop, took years to allow anything near my breasts (sorry if tmi)
Hope some other people have some tips that actually work!

hope it stops

Thanks not sure how to stop as she won't take a bottle but I'm definitely getting scared of her going near me now as you describe. Will try Kellymom - can anyone else help?

only to say i got very stressed about it too, and then it just stopped (around 2 weeks after it started and about when i felt i couldn't carry on much longer).

ds is now 9 months and has six teeth and nips occasionally but it's not too bad.

it was the first teeth that caused the problems - since then new teeth haven't made him start biting again [touch wood emoticon].

really feel for you as it made me incredibly tense when it was at its worst and started to ruin bfing for me.

i think the advice that people give is to say "no" and then remove them from the breast, but my ds was too young at the time to understand so that didn't really work for me.

I can empathise with that as dd just laughs when I say no and isn't that bothered about feeding if her brother is around - she just wants to watch him. I'm really fed up today as I've got tonsillitis, a temperature of 40C and now I know she'll definitely wake up in the night for a feed - if not twice as she's had two bad feeds today that I've had to stop because of the biting. Sorry for the rant.

its okay to rant it is dreadful pain, i hope you get through it as ending the way it did for me, still makes me cringe and feel squirmy when I see bf on tv my body still remembers it, and if I have another kid I still bleive in bf and used to be a bit of a fanatic about it, so i would have to get over it pretty quick

Been there - know the pain!

Don't worry Em32, think it's very common. The advice I was given and worked was to try not to swear and shout at DD and look her in the eye and say NO and break her off.

DS now over 10 months has 6 rather large sharp teeth and doesn't bite. I didn't last too long but I remember getting to that 'too scared to feed' stage, but I wanted to continue breastfeeding (am still doing so now) as we both benefit from it so much. Just keep doing the above and she'll stop soon, its very common.

Good Luck!

Forgot to say, it was his first teeth too that were the problem - prbabably around the 6 months mark like your DD.

No direct exp as no teeth 'til 12 months after I'd finished bfing but BF and SIL had early teethers (3 months!!) and same prob and swore by nipple guards. No worries about teat confusion at this stage so worth a try??

same as lummox - I found it very difficult and vemotional for some reason but lots of helpful Mnetters gave me tips - pull the baby into you when she bites rather than pushing her away as instinct would suggest. That helped with me. lso, it didn't last long - a week or so and then I continues, pain free for another few months!