Question for breastfeeding mamas

How do u still manage to breastfeed when baby is biting ur nipples?

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I’ve not had it happen to me yet as baby hasn’t got teeth, but I’ve been told to push baby into the boob rather than pulling away. That’s supposed to make them pull off as they can’t breathe as well, and giving a firm no.

I think if you keep doing that hopefully they’ll get the idea.

It was a phase for my little one then she stopped. I have to tell her “no that it hurts mummy” she eventually got the idea and didn’t do it lol
I think she was just discovering how to bite at the time x

I take him off and tell him that it's not nice and hurts mama, take him off every time untill he stops. Sometimes it brings tears to my eyes and makes me feel physically sick! Not his fault by my god its painful!

I also got told to push them onto the boob (obviously not forcefully just gently) rather than pulling them off and it worked for me. The phase quickly passed tho luckily and she very rarely does it now

This has happened to me on and off. Personally I can think of nothing worse than pushing him more onto the boob ( so scary when teeth are involved!) and I wouldn't recommend shouting - when I did that (my natural reaction) my baby either thought it was hilarious, or terrifying.

For me best bet was removing him from the boob, taking a minute, and trying again.

On one occasion he bit me quite a few times on the left and broke the skin. It was way too sore so I pumped from that boob for four days (i'm lucky he will take a bottle).

It's so hard. Be brave and good luck! X

My LO got bottom tooth very early in (5months) the first time it happened I out of instinct had a scream of pain, daddy came and took her whilst I cleaned up as I was bleeding, and after that I was very scared to get her back onto the nipple, so I used nipple shield to protect it and when she bited I would pull her out with the shield in her mouth and say " no, it hurts mama" and kept doing it on and on until she learned and she is back on the nipple naturally now, no more bites.

Uhh it’s horrible isn’t it!

Try to stay calm when removing baby from boob and simply say no or gentle and pause feeding for a moment. Lots of praise when they feed correctly if they’re having a bitting spell.
I found mine was worse if I reacted loudly as she found it funny / wanted a reaction. X

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