My 4 month old is growing 4 teeth, I’m worried she will bite my nipples off, has this happened to any of you breastfeeding mums?

She’s exclusively breastfed and it feels like it’s too soon to introduce her to solids and take the boob away. Are there any other options for me and my girl?

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I had a biter, every time she had a new tooth, she would take my poor old nipples to chomp town, she even drew some blood a couple of times. I tried giving her pumped milk a few times, but she was not impressed at all. At times it was horrendous, but usually once the tooth had erupted the biting would stop… at least until the next tooth anyway. I know it’s hard, try to hang in there. When she would bite I would firmly say “no biting” and remove her from boob for at least the next 5-10 minutes, but preferably 20.

I breastfed until my daughter was nearly 4 years old, for a lot of that she had a full set of 20 teeth and it was no issue at all. She only nipped me maybe a couple of times whilst she was teething, I would say ouch and take her off immediately.

I stopped breastfeeding with both of mine when they started biting. 8 months with my first and 5 months with my second. Second bit hard when the teeth were through and I just thought nope i've done enough x

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6week old pretty much slept through the night?!

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It is 3am . Your toddler wakes in the night having wet the bed.

You can't find a waterproof sheet but you can find a normal sheet for his bed.

You are pretty sure there is a waterprpof sheet in your 11 month old's room.

But your 11 month old only just got to sleep after a half hour of being awake

Do you...

Clocks changing + late wake up

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He normally naps twice a day and has 1.5 hours for each, although sometimes will have a longer nap in the morning and then a shorter one in the afternoon. His wake windows are around 3/3.25/3.5 so it’s going to be a late bedtime as it stands.
Thoughts? Should I cap his naps so I can put him to bed earlier and get things back on track or just let things take their course? He’s likely to eventually get back to an earlier wake up anyway.

Fussy baby

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Sleep… is this normal?

Is it normal for my 7 week old baby to wake low this during the night…

8pm bedtime - milk and story
8:30/9pm - sleep
12:00am - milk
3am - milk

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Baby room

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I want to make it a room for our 10 month old. His argument is that we co sleeping anyway and therefore she doesn't need a room. But she is the most important person in our lives. Its the house that she ll have her childhood in, ofcourse she ll need room. We need to do everything we couldn't do when we were pregnant, because we were renting. We need to do a cute nursery for her to grow up in. She can have her naps in her room. She can play in her room. Her books and her changing station can go there.
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Thoughts? Solutions?