My DS is 7 months.
He's just getting his two bottom front teeth and has started biting me. He was doing it before his teeth started coming through but it wasnt too painful but now that his teeth are coming through - there out about 3 or 4mms- it hurts like hell. ie he bit me 10 mins ago and it still stings and the marks are still there!
He bites and clamps down and will not let go, if I try to open his mouth he bites harder and if I do nothing he bites harder. I don't pull back, because I know it will hurt more.
I've tried telling him no very firmly/ loudly/ pretty much every different tone of voice possible and it doesn't make a difference he just grabs on and will not let go.
I don't know what to do. :'(
It's hard enough to get him to feed as it is, every feed is a massive struggle to get him to latch on and stay on. I have to try a number of different positions and even then he sometimes just wont. I know that he's hungry but he just refuses. Part of the reson is wind but even once I've got rid of the wind (spent 45 mins + patting and rubbing in different ways) he still wont feed. I've just got some infants friend which seems to be helping, but he still refuses to feed.
So right now he is lying in his cot, crying because he is hungry and tired, I'm on the verge of tears because my boob hurts and I have no idea what to do, I don't want to go back in there and subject my nipple to more torture but I know that he's hungry and needs to feed.
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