Help! How to stop my little Biting Monster

[sydney moose]

Hi everyone,

My DD is 8.5 months old and now has 8 teeths, crawling & standing on furniture. As any babies, she LOVES to put stuff in her mouth but lately, she has started to bite us and yesterday DH pointed out that she also she has taken to biting her toys..you know tries to take a chomp out of her softer toys and even tried to bite her highchair... My DH's auntie is an early childhood nurse and recommended that whenever she bites us, we put her down and ignore her, so we have given that a go but the problem is that
A- She just moves onto the next toy/thing and does not appear to be worried about being ignored.
B- You can't ignore her for too long as she gets into everything and needs to be supervised.

We are looking for suggestion as she bit her godfather this week-end too. I know she doesn't mean to hurt us but I am curious to see what everyone has done with their little biting monster. She usually bites us on the shoulder when up and recently started climbing the back of our legs, hanging onto our pants and has bitten DH's leg too.

My thoughts have been to say a firm No- NO biting Sammy and put her down and semi ignore her...cause she knows and kinda understand the word no. MIL said, bite back but I think she is too young for that just yet ;-)

Would appreciate any help/advice you've got

M

[{sarah}]

My thoughts have been to say a firm No- NO biting Sammy and put her down and semi ignore her...

This would be my exact plan of attack. We had issues with our kids & glasses (we both wear them) and we were very firm from a young age. Say bub touched my glasses I would say "no glasses", put bub down on the floor & leave them there for a bit. Then when I picked him/her back up I would remind them, "no touching glasses". Then praise praise praise when they don't do the behaviour

[Arcadia]

I found DD would bite when teething, then as soon as the teeth cut through she would stop.

HTH and GL with it.

[Olive]

MIL said, bite back but I think she is too young for that just yet ;-)

please dont resort to this, i know two mums that have and still do this and believe me it doesnt work!!
sarahs advice is great!!

[sydney moose]

Was not really thinking about biting back tbh, Dh may be of another opinion however...but agreed don't think it works either.

[sydney moose]

Well it didn't take me long to have to give it a try....
Sammy has this habit of hanging onto my pants to pull herself up when I am cooking or attemtping to do anything in the kitchen that doesn't involve sitting down with her to play ( which I do do a lot) So as usual, she pulled herself up and when I didn't pick her up or turn around quickly enough for her, she bit me on the calf/knee. So I picked her up and said in a firm and louder voice, NO Sammy, No BIting! and put her down and proceeded to ignore her. She threw a tantrum at me and I walked away. I was in the process to make a bottle for her too, so litterally ignored her and after 3-4 minutes, she started amusing herself again, and this is when I went back, finished preparing the bottle and gave it to her...

Is this following kinda what you meant Sarah? I just don't know how to ignore for too long as even though the house is pretty baby proof, I think we all know it never is FULLY and we shouldn't take our eyes off them for too long. Would appreciate a guideline as to how long do we ignore for??

[Olive]

sounds like you did a sensational job hun!