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For the love of God how do I stop her biting?

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BumperliciousNeedsToSleep · 30/05/2008 14:11

DD is 11 months and keeps biting me!

I have tried:

putting her on the floor, but it's usually when she has had enough so doesn't bother her

saying no sharply - she just laughs

pushing her into my boob - as above

yelling - getoffgetoffgetoffgetoff! - funnily enough that just makes her laugh too

What can I do? This could be something that makes me stop. It makes me really angry with her

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DC2 · 30/05/2008 23:03

Oh exactly the same here. I have cried a lot recently about it all. DH is asking if I don't have enough milk any more, but we have proper arching of back tantrums as well as biting. I thought the hard thing would be fending people off who were asking why I was still bfing!!

solo · 31/05/2008 00:04

Bumper, the flicking doesn't have to be hard, it just makes them jump and surprised. It did make my Dd cry, but like I said, it was 3 times and I've continued bfing her no problem. Perhaps your Dh should let her bite his nipple, see how he reacts!. Seriously though, it wouldn't take long and very many times before she'd get the message, then hopefully you could continue pain free for as long as you both want to.
My Dd won't drink cows milk unfortunately and I want to start the wind down now as I don't really want to go past 18 months as I did with Ds...only got 4 weeks to sort it though!

TinkerbellesMum · 31/05/2008 20:24

Ow DC2 the memories!

TinkerbellesMum · 31/05/2008 20:28

You still have enough, don't worry about that. It probably is a phase, I thought at the same point it was all over when I so much wanted to get past a year, now she's 22 months and knows better than to bite (most of the time). Keep doing the retraining and also keep an eye on other drinks.

BumperliciousNeedsToSleep · 04/06/2008 20:24

Well, another night, another bite

She just didn't want to feed from me tonight, but necked 8oz of cows milk. The worst thing is I'm worried that there'll be a vicious cycle of her not feeding, milk supply going down, her feeding even less through frustration and biting even more.

I don't know what to do, and I know there is nothing anyone can that will help because this time it wasn't about the biting it was about her not wanting to feed.

I just need a bit of sympathy as DH doesn't understand how upsetting this is, feels like the beginning of the end

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BumperliciousNeedsToSleep · 04/06/2008 20:24

Well, another night, another bite

She just didn't want to feed from me tonight, but necked 8oz of cows milk. The worst thing is I'm worried that there'll be a vicious cycle of her not feeding, milk supply going down, her feeding even less through frustration and biting even more.

I don't know what to do, and I know there is nothing anyone can that will help because this time it wasn't about the biting it was about her not wanting to feed.

I just need a bit of sympathy as DH doesn't understand how upsetting this is, feels like the beginning of the end

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Rebexus · 04/06/2008 23:27

Awww... poor you ... loads of sympathy from over here. IS sad to be thinking of ending the bf. Hubby won't understand will he ... not been there doing it for 11 months and feeling the connection. Sigh.

(In case it helps anyway ... My dd has bitten me about 3 or 4 times and each time I screamed out loud involuntarily. She let go and looked at me, startled, and then started to cry. I felt terrible and gave her a cuddle and she didn't do it again for a quite a while (weeks). She seemed to do it when she was bored and had had enough really. But the shock seems to have cured her. Maybe you could try the scream thing?)

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