Need some advice on biting

[Lin]

My 10mnth DD has been biting something cronic lately! I don't really know what it means. At times she'll bite her wrists or she'll bite her clothing and pull it hard out of her mouth. She'll bite my shoulder when I'm carrying her and not to mention she bites so hard when she's on the breast that my nipples have become really sore and swollen! :crying: I'm not sure what it would be that she's trying to tell me! Does anyone know?
Every time she bites me when feeding, I'll give a firm 'no' and take her off and try again later. But this doesn't seem to work! Quite often she give a laugh and do it again (I'm sure out of spite!). She just gets really cheeky about it! I don't know what I can do to teach her to stop!
As far as her teething, she's got 7 teeth in the front. I can't see any others trying to pop through so I don't think it's to do with her teeth! Please help! :confused:

[red crayon]

Hi Lin - have you got Robyn Barker's book, 'The Mighty Toddler'? Or access to it? I know she discusses biting in the book. Sorry, I haven't got access to my copy or I'd write out what she says. Good luck.

[the_queen]

She's 10 months - she's a baby.
My boy bites my nipples sometimes, and I have found that it's because he's drunk enough, and is now just playing. A good analogy is drinking through a straw - when you drink water through a straw, you don't bite the straw, but when you're not drinking anymore but it's still in your mouth, you might bite it almost unknowingly. I just make sure to take him off when he's finished drinking.
And the biting on everything else, is just developmentally normal, she's practicing. Don't stress about it. She's not doing it to spite you, I promise. She'll grow out of it. Perhaps you could have a special "bite-able" toy boy, with lots of soft-rubber textured toys, that she can bite and chew on. Obviously she wants to bite - give her the opportunity to do it appropriately, and maybe she won't bite you so much anymore? It's worth a try! :)

[Lin]

Thank you for your advice! I'll see if I can get a copy of the book!
As for bite-able toys, she has plenty of those sorts of things - even those teether ones you put in the frindge etc. She doesn't seem to chew or bite on any of them any more, she just bites herself and me - and I dare say she'd try on other people also but luckily hasn't yet.
The straw analogy makes a lot of sense actually!
Thank you both! :hugs: