Breastfeeding a teething baby

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My daughters bedtime feed last night was so painful. She was biting/chewing/squeezing/grinding (etc) my nipple between her gums. She doesn't have any teeth but she's teething. However, it was really painful and it was not a calm feed!

Is there anything I can do to stop her doing it again? I'm starting to introduce bottles now but I don't want to be done breastfeeding for a bit yet, if this carries on I'll stop a lot quicker though!

Anybody?!

Not sure if I'm going to be much help but my dd sometimes bites when she needs to burp and can't suck properly. It flipping hurts so I do sympathise. I've also tried shouting to shock her but this isn't exactly scientific.

How old is your dd? I think all you can do is calmly remove her from the breast each time she does it and hopefully she will get the message soon enough. From my own experience, I think that yelping or shouting (voluntary or involuntary) may be counterproductive as she might be so frightened that she refuses to feed from you altogether. Good luck!

She's 5.5 months so we're right at the beginning of teething!

I tend to put teething gel on and let her have a teething ring straight out of fridge for 5 mins before we try a feed- dd then get most of her chomping/biting out of the way

I find DS bites when he's messing about and not really feeding. If he's hungry or feeling the need to suck he has no time to bite or nibble, he just gets on with it and almost always falls asleep.

If he starts to get a bit nippy I end the feed and we try again later.

He had oral thrush a couple of months ago and was really quite bitey then, I think his mouth was either sore or itchy. Worth checking her mouth for any white or red shiny patches.

I used to immediately unlatch say, "no biting" and try again. If she did it again I would unlatch say no biting and bout her on the floor. Take a deep breath, pick her up and try again.

Good luck.