I have a nipple biter- any advice please!

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DD2 is becoming a bit of biter when feeding. she doesn't do it all the time, she did it tonight and at this mornings feed, but was maybe a week or so since she'd done it previously. there doesn't seem to be any pattern to it either, DD1 did it very occasionally when she was extremely tired, but never became a big issue. Am definitely not ready to stop feeding DD2, as is only 9months, but it is excrutiatingly painful, and am very nervous when i am next feeding her.help me please.

Ouch! It really bloody hurts!!! When my DD starting to bite I just stopped the feed the minute she bit. Said NO...put her down and walked away.

May seem harsh but it worked.

Best of luck!

have been doing that, but hasn't stopped her altogether. don't know if its maybe teething related- i keep trying to give her loads of other things to bite on instead of me!!

DS went through a phase of this at about the same age and I really sympathise because it was hellish!

The BF counsellor told me to pull his face right into my boob so that he couldn't breathe and then he'd let go which did work sometimes but also sometimes he'd just bite harder!

I think it was mainly down to teeth coz he's completely stopped now. I did also realise that he was often doing it when he wasn't really hungry so I'd try giving him some water instead which seemed to work sometimes too.

Hope it's just a phase and sending much sympathy your way.

DD went through a biting/grinding phase when she was cutting 5 teeth at once when she was about 10 months old. It was awful and I'd take her off and move her away if she did it. It did pass and I'm still feeding her.

She tended to grind her teeth on me when she was dropping off to sleep. I learned to anticipate when it was likely to happen and take her off.

Le leche League website has some good practical ideas on how to deal with this.