painful 6 month biter

[XClaireX]

Hi
My six and a half month old has been exclusively breastfed. She has been on solids for a month and now has developed two very sharp teeth. After three days of tears and bleeding nipples I have tried to give her a bottle which she flatly refuses. I have for the past month tried lots of different bottles and teats none of which she will have. She drinks water from a beaker but will not have formula. I have tried postive reinforcement with biting this has not helped.
Has anyone gone cold turkey with the breastfeeding? how long did or should you withhold the boob. H/V is backing the fact that she will eventually stop biting but I am at the point of dreading feeding and feel i can no longer put myself and her through it.

Sorry should have written" I have tried postive reinforcement with THE biting this has not helped."
I have not resorted to biting her

i have the same thing with my nine month old. but cold turkey can work but it is hellish I had to do that whih my ds1 it was took a whole day of misery and he took it in the evening, after 2 weeks of tears and biting. now my dd has just bitten me twice but i'm so sore - yesterday she drank an ounce of formula from a cheapo boots bottle, maybe today i hope she drinks more, so i won't end up the same as with ds1 , I tell you for me bf both times seems to begin with terrible nipple pain and end with terrible nipple pain, but it is worth it for the months of loving close feeding so I guess it is worth it in the end, but I feel awful at the moment. you are not alone. I can't wait for her to stop biting as in the end with ds1 I could not bear him near my breast even if dh tried to hold him there while i shut my eyes, I woudl still back away, and for year after even dh coul dnto go near them, so I really wnat to avoid that too.

My third child did this, and punched, pinched and twisted until we stopped bfing at 23.5 months. I was covered in scratches and bruises. Can't think why I kept going that long tbh.

I tried the sitting her on the floor whenever she hurt me but it didn't really seem to work with her. People say it does though.

Hi, I'm not an expert but both of my DDs did this and it really hurts!

I don't know how you feel about this but it worked both times for me quite quickly.
Every time they bit I would abruptly stop feeding them and put them down straight away. I didn't respond by making a noise or looking at them, just quietly put them down.
They cried a bit but mostly just looked surprised. I only had to do it a few times for each of them and the biting stopped.

You may of course have tried this already.

lol at biting the baby.