Argh! Stop pulling it!

Amelia has this awful habit, she's had it since she was about a week old, but it's getting worse as she gets stronger. It's like she's trying to detach my nipple. She'll be happily feeding, then suddenly and without warning throw her head around like she's an animal with a particularly tough bit of meat. Arrrrrrrrgh it hurts! I've tried holding her head still but that makes her squirm even more :( She's always hurting me in some way, but this is the worst. If I didn't love her so much, I'd just never go near her until she was old enough to understand :lol:

Not really looking for a solution, just sympathy or empathy. Anyone else's bub think your nipples are portable?

And as I type, little fingernails dig into my arm.... Argh!


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Oh I remember that ouch luckily it was only a phase

Yep - I've had two like that.

A LC told me it was because they are trying to get more milk so they pull back like that. With DS2 though, it isn't always the case. I think he just does it for funsies.

DD1 (who was my other elastic nipple baby) would also scratch me. Thankfully none of the others have done that. Ouchies!

If you feed with you both lying on your side then you can put a hand behind her back (gently) and make it harder for her to pull. If at all possible you want to squash this habit now - when they do it with teeth it is even less fun :(

That's what I'm afraid of, kmn - teething!


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Owwwwch! DD was terrible for that, worse when she had teeth and would look up at me and deliberately slowly pull back scraping her teeth along my nipple!

Oh my gosh, how timely! DS has just started this lovely behavior - at 12mths!! It's like he's become too lazy to detach properly, he just wrenches off. He's actually grazed me over the weekend :cry:

Hold your hand on bub's back rather than her head. If she pulls back, you can push her into you and then at least she can't pull back too far.

DD2 was doing this for a little while. I just watched her when I knew she was just about finished and when she went to do it I would push (gently) her right into my breast. She soon stopped doing it. She never cried it just surprised her the first few times and I guess she did not like it.

Teni Chase does that too so Amelia isn't the only one who thinks hurting mummy is fun. thanks for posting this thread, got some good advice to stop Chase doing it hopefully. Now if I could get him to stop chomping down on my nipple at the end of his feeds....Chase also used to scratch my chest and just recently has worked out how to pinch my other nipple while I am feeding him LOL

Whenever Jake does that, it's followed by a rumble and a big poo ! lol (for him, not for me, just to clarify)

Shayla does exactly the same thing. She is at the stage where her surroundings distract her, so she tends to try to look around with my nipple in her mouth. Luckily it doens't hurt me too much. I think after more than two years of breastfeeding and now over 6 months of tandem feeding, my nipples are just used to all sorts of punishment lol!

Oh, her lovely new habit though is pinching my breasts while feeding. Not just a little finger and thumb pinch, she does the type where she scrunches her whole hand into a fist with my breast tissue squished inside, then wrenches her hand away. Ouch! Double ouchies between nail clipping, haha!

Another one to sympathise with you... and a few of you ;)

I too (still at 7mths) have the pull/detach happening here especially if she gets distracted.

I also get the pinching of the bb while feeding :o

And sometimes when she's laying back in the nursing position she'll pinch the flabby (unfortunatley that's the best way to describe them :redface:) bits of my arms.

Ouch, ouch & ouch.... the things we put ourselves though :)

DD pulls off and has two teeth now but for some reason the teeth doesnt bother me.. only time they bother me is when she gets lazy towards the end of the feed and clamps down.... She will pinch anything she can.. AND she will come off and go oh look nipple and start flicking it and rubbing it inbetween her fingers... then looks up to say i didnt do nothing....

Yep both have done it at various times the most annoying thing now is them playing with other nipple while feeding or pinching!!

DS2 bites as he falls asleep and it hurts!!!!! (10 teeth)

I remember this happening to us too - I think I even posted about it as I was starting to dread feeds. DD did it closer to the end of a feed, and I would be in agony, so on the advice of some BB'ers I was at the ready to break the seal with my finger when she started to pull away. Only had to do it a few times, well and truly ruined her fun, and she stopped doing it. I was lucky it worked though, I guess it's similar to some of the other tactics offered - hope she eases up on you soon :crossfingers:

Ouch yes I can sympathise. My dd does this when the boobie is running low on milk, changing her to the other side seems to help. She went through a pinching the back of my arm phase which hurt so much and now has a habit of touching my face while she's feeding. I move her hand and she insists on putting it back on my face. I have to keep her nails really short because she scratches me all the time if I don't, I've had so many scratches on my boobies. Have you tried swapping her to the other boobie?

DD2 was a breast grabber too and she loves playing with my necklace when feeding put because it has already broken once I stopped her by wearing a necklace with big beads on it while I fed her this kept her hands occupied and she left my breast alone.

Ooh good thread! Dd3 has started chomping but also pulling at the end of a feed - ouch!!

DD hasn't done that one yet, but I do have little bits of skin off my boobs where she's scratched me!
She likes to pinch/scratch, with just 2 fingers, or full fist. Doesn't bother her. She'll also grab full fist at the skin at the back of my arm while I have her on my hip.

DS was never this mean! Though he did bite a few times with teeth for fun! I'm very happy DD doen't have any teeth yet!!

Oh & the nipple love. Wanting to look at it & play with it. & just lurve it. Really annoying! Drives me mad!

Yes, yes and yes! Sammy wriggles about, kicks my arms, grabs boob with his whole hand, pushes his face right into my boob while going ''gnnnnrrrghhh", looks around while trying to hold onto the nipple, wrenches backwards - opens his mouth and then slams his head forward to get the nipple - if he misses he keeps trying! His newest trick is humming while feeding, but if I hum along he looks at me like I'm the strange one! He has 2 teeth, but so far has been very kind about how he uses them. I swaddle him for his night time feed and feed him that way, he calms down and concentrates on eating then. My Dh calls it Extreme Breast Feeding and thinks it should rank up there with sky diving.

Pinching is nasty. Sometimes at night I fall asleep and the baby decides it is wakey play time and he fiddles with any nipples he finds. Ow. Great way to be woken up.

Both my boobies are very thoroughly covered in scratches too ...

She's definitely decided pinching is fun :lol: Though she's starting to enjoy stroking my face gently (before balling her hand into a fist with lots of skin in it :rofl:)


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Shayla has amped up her hand pinching and is now leaving little gouges on my breasts! They became quite red. She paws at me like a little baby tiger does to her mummy tiger, lol. So I found a solution, I put a sock on her hand, lol! She only does damage with the arm that is under the breast, so I pop a sock on that one and she seems quite content about it :)

DD now comes off mid feed sometimes and flicks my nipple...