My baby bit her friend - over reaction?

[Just Me]

I don't think you are overreacting - I would hate it if she kept bringing it up!

I agree with chocoholic - you have identified the situations where your baby is likely to bite so at least you can do something proactively about it. If you don't feel comfortable saying something to the other mum, maybe get down on the floor next to where the babies are playing and if the other baby just give some positive play directions to both of them followed up by lots of prasie for good behaviour choices.

If the other baby starts yelling in your baby's face you can say 'we need to use quiet inside voices' or taking her toys 'we need to share the toys' etc ... just point out the behaviour that you want them to do. Make sure you follow it up with lots of praise 'What a lovely quiet voice, I really like the way you are talking to each other!'

It might be an idea to sit and play with them from before problems arise so you have plenty of opportunity to give positives to both of them before you have to start positive re-direction.

Sounds to me like your are handling your baby's biting just fine. That is exactly what I do with my kids. Most kids go through a biting stage. My DD2 is 2 and a half and has only started biting in the last couple of weeks - NOT FUN! I thought I was lucky and had escaped dealing with that issue but apparently not. Her biting has in turn brought out the biting stage in DS and they have bruises in the shape of each others teeth marks on their bodies. It is terrible! They are SLOWLY getting the point though. Everything takes time for them to learn at this age, but I am being consistent and vigilent and it is starting to get through.

Good luck with everything.

[Rouge]

They are just babies there is no tit for tat, there is no need for blame. And there is no need to get nasty between each other because of that. If she's sensitive about it maybe talk to her about it and tell her how bad you feel about it. Ask her if there's a way you can both work together so that the situation is avoidable.

[Lulu]

My daughter had a thing with biting toes!

However, it might be a good idea to intervene before it gets to the biting point. In fact the other mother should consider stopping her daughters behaviour don't you think? If you don't think she will I think you should step in and separate the both of them and calm down the situation yourself.

I don't think making catty remarks back to the other mum will help, just try stop the situation from escalating xoxoxo

[kelebek]

Sounds like you know the triggers and I would be inclined to seperate them before it escalates to the point that your DD is biting; that way she knows that the other child's behaviour isn't approriate either. At this age they are just reacting and we need to teach them to share and to be gentle etc... If the other mother isn't willing to step in then I would just gently try and distract your DD with another activity or the other child.

Children bite, lucky for me DS mainly bit me and eventually the phase passed