Biting nipple! Help

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My 7 month old has no teeth but keep chomping down with his very hard gums then pulling the nipple on the right side. There's definitely milk there and he's gaining weight , happy and healthy. It's so sore, even worse than the newborn days.

Any ideas how to stop this? I feel like I need nipple shields or something!

I can remember my DS doing this at 5 months and it was agony. People who think that they can only manage purées at this age have obviously never experienced this particular delight!

I called one of the BFing helplines abs they suggested feeding lying down for a few days which worked for us.

Might be worth giving one of them a ring. Have you got the numbers?

I took him off the nipple, put him safely on the floor and stepped away for a minute each time he did it. It stopped pretty quickly.
Nipple shields won’t help, it will just hurt in a different way.

Mine had teeth when they did this and I remember googling ‘has a baby ever bitten a nipple off?’ It’s terrifying! (No evidence that one had, fortunately )For me it always seemed to be when they were getting new teeth it was worse and then it passed. I always yelped, couldn’t help it, then stopped the feed for a while.

My now 9 month old did it for a very short while (with teeth). I naturally jumped and jolted because it shocked me, which he found unpleasant, so he stopped. Failing that I read that you tell them no and unlatch each time they do it.

Forgot to say: give him something to chew on at other times, he might be teething