I'm so tired of being bitten!!! 1yr old biting me HARD!

[onthefly]

Have you tried taking her off immediately, putting her down and walking away?
DS was the same at that age and this worked for him.

[Heaven]

I did what the others suggested and it worked for me too so I have no more advice

If it's teeth and she's biting bc she has sore gums have you tried giving her something to bite on, like a washer from the freezer for a bit first so she can get that out of the way, and then feeding her?

[onthefly]

When you say no and put her down for a few minutes, do you then offer the breast again?
she's old enough to understand that you don't want to feed her if she bites - so maybe just don't feed her for a while.... i know the last time DS bit me (and he DID draw blood) I flat out refused to feed him for teh rest of teh day. he was probably about the same age as your DD and teethign too. so he went probably 5-6 hours without a feed and never bit me again. just a thought

[~Kim~]

I've got a biter too. He thinks it's hilarious and has teeth since 5 months. Now he has 9 so I totally get you on the hurt factor. He bit hard enough a couple of weeks ago that the wound got infected

Two things have worked for me.
1. Like the other have said - shutting up shop. The first few gentle bites I ignore and just release his grip (I am quite good now at not jerking away - it hurts way less than if I do). When he continues, I say No! very loudly and put my finger in his mouth to release the bite then I put him down.

2. Nate was still feeding quite often during the day like every 3 hours (7, 10, 1, 4, 7). So I cut a feed out. That worked for a bit and he was more interested. Then he started the biting again, so we stretched out the feeds again and he only has 3 in his waking hours now (morning, lunchtime and bedtime). He feeds much better at all three feeds and the biting had stopped completely.

If he's distracted by other stuff going on around whether we're out or Darcy's running around or whatever, he's harder to feed too and will often bite in his effort to 'get away' lol.

[Shanti]

Yep, I've often put her down when she's bitten me and put her back with her toys or what she was doing previously to distract her and she then may not feed again for another 2hrs or whatever... but sometimes she will still bite again

Kim - maybe I should try what you are doing... now that she's nearly 12mths she doesn't need to feed as often anymore.... maybe so she's really wanting the boob, I only offer at certain times of the day. So do a morning, lunch and evening feed.... hmm that's an idea.
We are still feeding on demand here and on a typical day from waking to going to bed she'll probably feed 4-5 times but probably only have 3 good feeds out of all of those.....
ikwym.... I think DD sometimes bites me as a way of telling me she's had enough instead of just coming off!!

Heaven - yeah she has plenty of things to chew on without her needing to chew my boob! She has her books her toothbrush she loves chewing it, maybe i should offer her toothbrush first and carry that with me wherever i go lol....

She fed to sleep tonight (first time she's fed to sleep in about 3wks!! Yay!! I've missed that... ) and it was bliss! No biting.

[~Kim~]

Yep that's exactly what I mean!! (well I think they mean lol)

[Gigi]

i'm really tired
so haven't read all the posts

same thing happened to me

fiona jill - who i am not sure is still on this forum, but she was for several years, and she's also a aba counsellor, she gave me BRILLIANT advice, i can't remember the exact words, as i'm not a aba counsellor, but i'll try to put down the GUTS of what she said, and IT WORKED.

it was all about POSITION and DIRECTION.

yeh yeh to the "taking baby off and saying No in firm voice". i did that too, but it wasn't enough ON IT"S OWN for us. Once i changed the POSITION and DIRECTION like FJ suggested, it made it PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for bilby to actually bite me.

i had been shown, the correct way to hold my baby in my arms, to feed her.
Months of her being tiny, and having no teeth, i got lazy and stopped using the positioning techniques. So i had to re-learn them.

basically baby needs to be ON THEIR BACK, so their CHIN is way back, cos their mouth is searching out your nipple. (see, i can't explain this very well in words!).
that is the DIRECTION bit of the puzzle.

the POSITION bit of the puzzle relates to their BACK PALETTE and your NIPPLE.
in combination with the DIRECTION part, this makes it impossible for the bub to BITE DOWN - which is what you want, so they can't bite you.

i'm hoping barb glare will come in here, and translate my pitiful words, into the meaning i want to get across.

it made ALL the difference to me and my bilby's bf-ing r'ship - without that GOLD advice, we wouldn't have been able to keep going.

Fiona Jill expressed it so well, her advice was in WORDS, not on the phone, so if i could find that post again, i would cut n paste it for you.

best of luck.