19 month old glued to me

[justtryingherbest]

my 19 month old is glued to my boob all day. she’s constantly asking for boob. the second i sit down, stop moving she’s there lifting my top up and she SCREAMS if i say no.

she is getting her molars, both top and bottom so i’m guessing it’s comfort but i feel like we’ve gone so so so backwards. i’d managed to do well and we were in a good routine of morning and night but it’s another level now

luckily she’s not really biting my nipples but she is pinching them hard which really hurts and she’s bit my shoulder a few times

the teething powder doesn’t help, she spits medicine out and she will hardly eat anything!! unless it’s quavers which i don’t think will give her all the vitamins and nourishment she needs 😂

please some words of support that this will get better 😭

Sucking on boob is natural pain relief, as well as comfort for them. Apparently the molars are the worst pain coming in too. She probably doesn't want to eat, so may be hungry as well.

I was told ibuprofen (neurofen) was more effective than paracetamol (calpol) for teething pain, and used both in alternating times lots when mine was waking in the night screaming from it.

Will she take a bottle? If she's hungry and wanting to comfort suck, I'd try it to see if you can catch a break.

Also, has this been just days or weeks? My comments here are assuming days, and that you can get back to better routines when the teething us past!

Oh hi, are you me?!

My 21 month old has been on the boob all day and if I try to say no she says "peees?' with puppy dog eyes so I just give in.

She seems to think I'm her dummy this week.

I really said No at dinner time and she cried so much I gave in again.

It's like having a newborn again :/

thats the hard thing i know its comforting her but i really just want her off me now! i’ve tried so many other things to get her to stop being latched constantly. she’s never really been bad in the day but honestly it’s getting me down now. everyone keeps telling me to stop and i am SO ready to. but i can’t have her screaming and getting as distressed as she has been.

i even expressed some milk and warmed it for her and gave it her in a bottle and she just kept throwing it and was having none of it

I totally get how overwhelming it can be when she just wants to be latched to you all of the time but I think stopping now, when she’s clearly in pain, wouldn’t be great timing.

You’d have a toddler still in pain but you will have taken away her main source of comfort and pain relief.

Instead, I would persevere with Ibruprofen, even if you have to bribe her with chocolate and take her temperature just to make sure there’s no infection going on.

What things have you tried so far for the pinching?