how soon after teeth

[workin'mumof2]

Scary question :p

How soon after your baby got a tooth did they bite you?

Did you bleed?

How did you and how should you have reacted?

my daughter 5months old has an eye tooth poking through and you can feel it when she bites your finger. how soon will she bite me :(

[NibbleCurlynBub]

DD bit me not long after she got her first tooth.

I set her straight though by taking her right off (and of course letting out the obligatory YELP of pain) and sitting her down on the floor facing away from me.
She has never bitten me hard enough to bleed though.

Hurt me = No attention or boob.

She got the message pretty quick and wouldn't do it now. :no:

[sam's mum]

my first two never bit me at all, ever.

DD2 :crying: it seemed to be her reason to live for a few months. as soon as she bit me I would take her off and put her on the floor - no more feed, no attention. She would bite down, twist and pull and I would have to jam my finger in her mouth to pry her jaw apart. She would only bite on the left side and I ended up with a lot of missing nipple. eventually she grew out of it, but nothing I did helped.

[TKK]

My DD bit me as soon as her first tooth broke also. The biting was intense, but not enough to make me bleed or anything.

Not all babies bite - so don't start stressing too much now over something which may not happen! Its great that you are formulating a plan of attack just in case though :yelclap:

I made a point of saying "No thank you" and taking her off. I made sure to say the full "No thank you" as its easy to yell "No" in the heat of the moment and scare her, but if I had to blurt out all three words then I had to be reasonably calm to do so.

My DD giggled the first time, cried the second and third time (because her boobs were taken away) and then never did it again.

I think she was just feeling what these strange new little razors she had in her mouth were - must be soooo weird for them to suddenly have teeth. I don't know if you've ever lost a tooth or hurt a tooth but your tongue becomes strangely obsessed with poking and prodding that gummy bit... Can you imagine the opposite - all gummy and then all of a sudden have a tooth!

So my advice is be calm but firm. Good luck!

[gazelle]

DS didn't bite me until he got his top two front teeth, at 4 months (the bottom two came at 3 months).
The first time I yelped and took him off the breast, and continued on the other side. The second time, I followed ABA advice and put him on the floor and walked out of the room... this worked a treat as he never did it again! (ABA also advise not to yell 'ouch' but honestly, I couldn't help myself :p).

The difficult thing is that he would try to bite if the milk didn't let down right away, but it's hard to relax and let it flow when you're scared they're going to bite you... :o

I only had a bit of bleeding and the lanolin cream/pawpaw ointment healed it really quickly.
Good luck! :goodvibes:

[Beany]

Not very long after he got his teeth through. It was painful but didn't break the skin. I reacted by yelling out in pain, his face crumpled and he cried. He didn't do it very much at all after that.

Just be sure to only offer the breast when baby is hungry. They can't bite when they are actively feeding so they only bite when they are full or just wanting to play.