bitey mcbitester from bitesville

[mb_dolphin]

ugh. quinn is biting me while nursing. it is not fun. he only has 2 bottom teeth and i think he has been keeping me up all night the past week because the top 2 are on their way, but i am getting worried about the biting.

i had a plan, dammit! everything i read, and even what my mom told me was that you have to correct it right away. my plan was to do just that. the first bite, i would take him off the boob and calmly but firmly tell him no, that hurts mommy. and that is supposed to work. but... the first time he bit me it was the middle of the night and he was asleep. that was not part of the plan. i still said no and took him off the boob, but i am not sure the message got across. he did it again the next night. now he has begun doing it in the daytime, i think it has been 3 times now. the last time, at least he didn't smile when i told him no, and i am hoping he is getting it through his head that he cannot bite the nipple that feeds......

 however, if anyone reading this has any experience with this or advice on how to get him to curb the biting habit, PLEASE let me know!!! i am worried that he will continue because i didn't "nip it in the bud" like i was planning on doing.....

[ainamama]

Aug. 28, 2007 at 10:07 PM ouch!i am curently nursing #4....#2 wasa major biter and nothing seemed to work!not just boobs either!it wasn't malicious,i think it was evn affection....just keep doing what you're doing.repetition is the thing.eventually he will get the message.i remeber one time when kua was close to a year he bit onto my arm,and usually i'd have to kind of squeeze his mouth to get him off,but that didn't work,tried pinching his nose shut,nada!i finally on instinct bit him back-that did the trick!he seemed to get it a little better after that!i can't believe quinn already has the bottom-mana doesn't have any yet,but he's teething like mad!he hasn't been biting so much as starting and stopping and yesterday he kept trying to grab and yank my nipple!now i feel on the verge of mastitis!what we go through for our chldren!

[nytefae]

Aug. 29, 2007 at 5:54 AM My little guy is a biter and unlike Wee Quinn, he DOES smile! lmao I tried all that firmly telling him no stuff and he would just grin. And then I would grin because he would grin and then he would GIGGLE. We're a royal mess over here... But I think he's finally getting the message. The other day he bit down and pulled and I inadvertently yelled out, "OW!" (It really HURT!!!) And he let go, gave me this look of horror and started to cry. I hugged him, cuddled him, told him it was okay just that he hurt Mommy. (I felt so bad for making him cry!) We've only had one biting incident since then and it was in the middle of the night.
Good luck with yours! Don't give up on him. He'll get the message soon.

[alex]

Aug. 29, 2007 at 11:11 AM

 

 

It sounds really harsh, but the loud, OWWWW is what worked for Julia. My lactation consultant recommended that I actually yell owww or no and discontinue the feeding. It worked like charm, after the second time she figured out that if she bites, she doesn’t eat. It felt really harsh to me, but it did work. Julia is a biter over all though, and went through a terrible phase of biting when she was angry. She would seek out the nearest thing and chomp. We tried the gentle 'oww that hurts mommy' and she started biting or hitting and then actually saying owwww when she did it. Hahahaha secretly funny, but not really when you’re the one being bitten. Anyway, my boobs were the only thing she wouldn’t bite, because like I said, she knew she wouldn’t eat.

Much Love

Alex

[carnivalday]

Aug. 29, 2007 at 3:51 PM You know the problem I'm having isn't exactly biting.  He actually BIT me a couple of times, but being put promptly down with a loud "Ow" pretty much stopped that.  What he does now, is nurse while sort of holding his teeth so close together that, he leaves imprints of his teeth on my nipple.  It is rather painful and makes me want to wean him.  Does anybody have that problem?

[gorgesgirl]

Aug. 30, 2007 at 11:21 AM oh, I am dreading Mikey's getting teeth for exactly this reason. It hasn't happened yet, so I have no advice to give you other than stay strong!

[RadicalMama]

Oct. 5, 2007 at 4:51 PM Okay, I am so late on getting to this...  I have too many friends, so I don't see all the new stuff everyone has done, only the last few cool things done with ALL of my friends :D  Anyway...  Kass wasn't much of a biter, but Noble bit me like CRAZY when he was teething.  It ended up being a phase, thankfully!  He is not doing it anymore (and thank goodness, since he has all these new teeth coming in!).  I am sure that it didn't help that Kass and Zayah would yell ouch and fall to the floor to get him to laugh, so when I said "Ouch! That hurts.  Don't hurt Mama." I am sure that is why he smiled.  It took him a little while, but eventually, he stopped smiling when I told him that, and then he stopped doing it at all....  Hopefully he stays that way :D