Ouch! 9 Month Old Biting~HELP

[mum2peanut]

My 9 month old has taken to biting, mainly me, sometimes DH. I think it's easing her teething syptoms, but it hurts like h#ll! I have bruises on my arm from her doing it the other day. She has both top and bottom teeth, so it pinches.
I am now pulling her off me when she does it. But how do I get thru to her not to do it. I've tried giving her a teether as a substitute, but she's not interested.
If she's near my face, it's like she's coming in for a kiss, but then she knaws on my jaw bone.
I don't believe in biting back, and at at this age she wouldn't understand anyway.
Any suggestions would be great....thanks.

[Lin]

When my DD did that I would give a firm 'NO' and frown at her. I used to give her 3 chances before I took her off and tried again later. Sometimes she used to get cheeky and make it a game - she'd laugh when she bit. When she was like that, I started taking her off immediately and put her to play with some toys for about half and hour and then try again.
I began to realise with mine that she wasn't that hungry or thirsty is when she did it the most. If she bit at my face it would be extreme hunger. I would growl at her and say 'no biting'.(That was the case with mine anyway. Others might be different).

It takes a looooong time to get through to them but you will overcome it eventually!
It hurts I know! :hugs: But bare with it and you'll get there! Good luck!

[mz sv6]

i will be keepin a lookout at this thread as my ds is 8 1/2 months old and he is doin the same thing but once he bites me he laughs he thinks its funny and its not

[mum2peanut]

I began to realise with mine that she wasn't that hungry or thirsty is when she did it the most.!

Is that when you were BF, my DD does it when we are playing tho or when I'm holding her, she a FF bubs. I'll try the 'no' thing tho, cause she know what that means now. Thanks for the advice.

[Mother Duck]

I have this one too! Jakey can bite REALLY hard!

I give a clear and very firm "No Biting Thankyou" coupled with pushing his mouth off - not roughly but firmly

I also give an accompanying growly facial expression

Stick at it - your bubba knows MUCH more than you realise they do!!!!

For example - our 9mth old KNOWS hat on Jakey, HAT ON Jakey - I knock his hand from his hat as I say it and eventually he gives up

He actually leaves his hat on now coz he is bored with that conversation!

[mumx3littlies]

My 9 month old has taken to biting, mainly me, sometimes DH. I think it's easing her teething syptoms, but it hurts like h#ll! I have bruises on my arm from her doing it the other day. She has both top and bottom teeth, so it pinches.
I am now pulling her off me when she does it. But how do I get thru to her not to do it. I've tried giving her a teether as a substitute, but she's not interested.
If she's near my face, it's like she's coming in for a kiss, but then she knaws on my jaw bone.
I don't believe in biting back, and at at this age she wouldn't understand anyway.
Any suggestions would be great....thanks.

We have got the same thing goin on... our 13mth old has been doing this for a while now. We do the whole 'No biting' and put him down if he does it again. It actually hasnt made much difference! Dammit. Hes biting so hard sometimes its drawing blood, so not fun at all. I'm gonna watch this space too and see what other people say! Good luck.:)

[the_queen]

My boy is/was a biter. These days he's much better than he was a few weeks ago. I do say "no biting" and actually I make the kissing noise and say "let's kiss" or something like that, and these days he doesn't use his teeth, he will still do an open-mouth kiss :D and if it's on my face he blows a big raspberry on my cheek :laughing:
And instead of "rough-housing play" I do lots of gentle play and kissing these days.

The other day he went to put his mouth on my toe, I said "no biting" and he stood up straight and said "nah bah" :laughing: so cute!! And he didn't bite me, either...

[mum2peanut]

Glad to see I'm not the only one with a little biter. Vampires in the making. :laughing:

[pmaus]

Hi all,
I have a 10 month old biter and clothes and hair puller which I can cope with but he does it to other kids. I only let him play around older babies/toddlers but he even makes them cry. I have to be quick and anticipate his actions but I'm not sure what works to get the message across. He is worse when tired or hungry.
Will he grow out of it?

[mum2peanut]

My DD is a hair puller too, my niece is 2 and DD gets hold of her curls and pulls so hard she cries.

[bekkyboo]

G is a biter too - he has a facination with toes too (:eek:) and likes to thaw on them if you have your feet hanging off the lounge, he looks back and laughs.

If its playful we tend to let him go, but he does get vicous at times, and then we say "no biting' and remove him from where ever he is doing it.

His grabbing is the worst at the moment tho - he grabbed J's eye the other day! OUCH!

[Mother Duck]

The other day he went to put his mouth on my toe, I said "no biting" and he stood up straight and said "nah bah" :laughing: so cute!! And he didn't bite me, either...
That really is cute! love it when posts get me LOL, esp in the morning!

Hi all,

....Will he grow out of it?
Hi there - welcome along, I see you a a new'un here - hope you like it, if you ever have any Q's about finding your way around, feel free to pm me

In answer to your question, Oh my I really hope so!

Jakey is teething at the moment pretty badly, these ones (no.5 & 6) seem to be way worse for him than the first!

DH has gone to our property today with axe in hand to find me some witchydy (sorry Indig Aussies for my horrible spelling!) grubs - best darn cure ever for sore teeth

Anyway - what I am trying to say is, hopefully this will help coz we are back to biting again!

[danielle13]

Ezaria's turned into a biter lately too.

She normally has a nibble on our fingers or arms, etc, but yesterday she was giving me a "kiss" on the cheek and bit me really hard!!! :shame:
I'd like a solution too, "no" doesn't work with her, she just giggles, even if its a scary faced "no" :banghead:.