Hello!

My baby girl is 16 months & she has bitten one of her little friends on three seperate occasions. It upsets me of course because no one wants a bitey baby but Im more upset with the mothers reaction.

Each time they are playing & her friend gets pushy & in my babys face & yells & screams & smacks & takes the toys & shoves & then my baby reacts by biting her. Its not like my baby just happily walks up & bites - there is always some kind of fight first.

Then I take my baby away, tell her "Dont bite! It hurts your friend" and I put her in the corner for a minute & then make her say sorry & kiss it better. I dont think me smacking her or biting her is fair punishment & in all honesty I think she is only biting to get the other baby to stop pushing at her.

So I apolgise to the mother & I get pretty upset about. I always text later to make sure the baby is ok. But - my problem is that the mother always makes me feel really really really bad about it. She says things in a joking manner but its not funny to me. For example she says - My baby is wearing her bite mark with pride - or My baby points at her mark & says Ouch - etc etc - they arent the best examples but she makes reference to it & brings it up over & over & then emails me articles about babys who bite.

Sorry for the vent but is it just me or I am over reacting?

My baby bites when her baby smacks & she gives me crap about it?

Its not like I dont do anything about it but honestly - I kinda feel like her baby isnt doing the right thing either.