7 month old biting whilst breast feeding! what does this mean?

[foxy1]

Hello

I have a 2year old and a 7 month old and have reast fed them both. My 7th month old has recently started biting whilst feeding (quite hard). Is this just teething or a sign that he does not want to be breast fed anymore. He does not always do this but be every other day he might. Any advice.

Thank you!!!

Foxy

[JodieG1]

Could be teething. My ds2 did this recently but now he has 2 teeth through he's stopped.

[bohemianbint]

Hello,

Ouch, I feel for you...I don't think it's a sign that they don't want to feed anymore, I think they just do it because they're getting teeth and can! My DS bit a few times but carried on. He made it clear he was ready to stop BF by refusing to latch on, laughing and crawling off!

Stick with it, its probably a phase...

Good luck!

[magsi]

I had to give up breast feeding my daughter at a few months old because she would 'wrag' her head back and forth and almost pull my (very long, red-raw, stretched) nipple off!! I came to the conclusion that she wasn't getting full-up enough from me and went onto bottles. It might be teething, it might be he is not getting enough. Bloody painful though isn't it!

[foxy1]

thank you! he has 2 bottom teeth already so msybe it is teething. Want to carry on bf until he is 1 if i can, even if it is just 1 or 2 feeds a day. thanks again

[Olihan]

My 7mo does this too. Don't know why but it bloomin' hurts and he doesn't have teeth yet, i'm dreading when that day finally comes!

I would very much doubt it's because he doesn't want to bf. He's probably just playing and likes the sensation and the big scream he gets from you , mine certainly does. Babies do have very sensitive mouths (hence shoving anything and everything in there!) so it could be that he's experimenting with how his mouth works.

I bet you'll get loads of people saying 'yes, mine bit too', in fact, there used to be a regular thread that was devoted to it, so you're definitely not alone.

[foxy1]

today for example he started biting as soon as i started feeding him. i know i produce quite a lot of milk as my boobs always feel full inflated. (dreading stopping as they will shrivel to small prunes!

[bohemianbint]

haha...if it makes you feel any better, DS stopped about 4 weeks ago, and mine don't look that bad to be honest! I am pleasantly surprised! (Or perhaps selectively blind!)

[Skyler]

DD1 bit me a very few times only in 12 months of bfeeding. Dd2 bit me LOADS, little madam. Each time I swore I would have to stop, but I never got around to buying any bottles etc and didn't really want to stop bfeeding so plodded on. I used to pull her in to me so she couldn't breathe and had to open her mouth and then she would be put down and have to wait a short while (while I recovered) before I fed her again. She got the message eventually and I fed her for 13 months in the end. She teethed earlier and quicker so this might be a factor. Good Luck.

[TheQueenOfQuotes]

I haven't read the other replies - and you must forgive me if this is a little flippant and not very helpful.....but the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw the thread title was

"It means they've got/getting teeth"

[UniSarah]

More likely teething than a "sign" of anything else. he doesn;t know that it hurts you , he may know it gets you to make a funn ( to him) noise, or it gets you to "notice him". If hes doing it at or near the end of a feed try stopping that feed as soon as he bites ( and with out screaming if you can!). If its at teh start you could try taking him off, sitting him up for a minute or two but NOT playing with him or "rewarding" him before trying again. I did both with my biting 5-6 month old, each time he would try it for a few days with his newly through teeth then get teh message and stop. My personal hunch is that he didn;t quite know where his teeth were while they were cutting and needed to learn a new jaw position each time.

[spongecake]

my baby nipped me, but i just make sure he has his head tipped back a bit and is down from my boob a bit, and really has a big mouthful of breast and he hasn't done it since. he has his bottom teeth which are v sharp! good luck!