Wanting to stop...advice!

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Nearly 6month old DS has two bottom teeth and is now biting me at EVERY feed :-( not just once but several times. I've tried finger in and Unlatching and this just results in tears until I offer the breast again....he can bite at the beginning/during/end! Starting to dread feeds...is there any advice as it's making me feel like
Giving up especially with the thought of the top teeth coming through....help!

Hi, I am having the same problem as you. I have given up offering breast when she is really bad and giving her expressed milk for a couple of days until teeth calm down :( it's horrible too dread feeding time and she is now taking bottle fine , so we are both happier

Whenever DD bites me I push her face into my boob. Sounds counter-intuitive but means she has to open her jaw.

She is much older though and should know better! Much harder with a tiny vampire

It happened to me when the first teeth came through but stopped within a few weeks. I refused to nurse when DD bit, she'd cry a little and after a few minutes I'd let her try again. The other teeth haven't been an issue so far and she's still feeding now at 16 months.

Tiny vampire, love this !! He's had his teeth around 5 weeks now and it's just past 2/3 days he's gone bite crazy :-( really don't know what to do

Hopefully no more teeth will cause us a problem then.....not feeling confident the amount he's bit me today tho

No it's not pleasant - DD drew blood the first couple of times and I still have a scar to prove it. The biting to that degree was only over a couple of days and then it was slightly less fierce after that until eventually it stopped completely.
Keeping a very close eye for the first signs of restlessness or that she had finished feeding properly and was now just messing around was also recommended but I can't say it made much difference to us.

Ds bit when his bottom front two teeth came in. Ouch! I would delatch him (finger in his mouth or push him into the breast to make him open his mouth) & simply stop feeding. Bra done up/t shirt down. It took him exactly one day to realise that biting meant no milk. He was four months old.

The first time he bit I inadvertently yelped really loudly, which he thought was really funny. He gave a massive grin & very deliberately bit again! Great game he thought!

He's now nine months with four top front teeth & they don't cause any trouble when feeding.

Not help in stopping sorry but you're doing the right thing in unlatching and letting him cry. He's got to associate biting with bad things. So denying him milk will teach him that if he bites he gets removed from the breast and this is sad.
Hugs it will pass.

Thanks all....still biting every feed :-( he thinks it's hilarious if I acknowledge it and when I don't he still just cries for the breast back just for what seems to bite me again. I'm constantly on edge with him n as soon as the sucking changes I'm Unlatching. I don't want him to want to bite.

I think you have to watch them like a hawk for the first signs that they're about to bite and take them off before they do it. Then don't offer the breast back - you can give him a frozen washcloth or stick of celery (celery has a mild painkilling effect too) or teething ring to suck and chew on. My view was if he was biting he wasn't really hungry anyway. You can offer again in an hour or so when he's forgotten about the idea of biting.

Shoving into boob worked for me too. Quicker and more effective. Immediate results. Did endure a full day of biting and removing. Would not let DH bring her anywhere near me in the end!!

Maybe limit feeding for a while to short feeds and only those times he's really hungry? As Bertie says they don't tend to do it when really hungry. He will probably cry about it but he may then forget about biting if the habit is broken and once he's used to his new teeth.