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biting - what do you do?
well the Moo has 2 little white teeth poking through his bottom gum,
they are not all out yet but its imminent! I thought it would be wise to ask for tips in case he turns out to be a biter. He's been doing this pull off thing for the last week or so and he gets 3 chances to settle before the boob gets put away as it hurts. Should I use the same strategy for biting? I'm not sure its working for the pulling off. What I mean by pulling off is when they have a firm grip on th nipple but wrench their heads away fast - ouch. teapot and the moo boy 7 mths today |
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biting - what do you do?
"teapot" wrote in message om... well the Moo has 2 little white teeth poking through his bottom gum, they are not all out yet but its imminent! I thought it would be wise to ask for tips in case he turns out to be a biter. He's been doing this pull off thing for the last week or so and he gets 3 chances to settle before the boob gets put away as it hurts. Should I use the same strategy for biting? I'm not sure its working for the pulling off. What I mean by pulling off is when they have a firm grip on th nipple but wrench their heads away fast - ouch. i called that "snapping" the nipple, like a rubber band mine did it because it made milk fly in their faces cant remember them ever biting,if the did i'd just break the latch with my finger |
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"teapot" wrote in message
om... well the Moo has 2 little white teeth poking through his bottom gum, they are not all out yet but its imminent! I thought it would be wise to ask for tips in case he turns out to be a biter. He's been doing this pull off thing for the last week or so and he gets 3 chances to settle before the boob gets put away as it hurts. Should I use the same strategy for biting? I'm not sure its working for the pulling off. What I mean by pulling off is when they have a firm grip on th nipple but wrench their heads away fast - ouch. teapot and the moo boy 7 mths today I was advised here to put Kam down when he bit me, and it seemed to work. I say a gentle no, then put him on the floor, which upsets him. I also realise now he has 4 teeth, that he only bites when he is teething, the rest of the time he is fine. -- Andrea mom of 5 - latest addition Kamron David 7 months still nursing strong with 4 teeth! |
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biting - what do you do?
teapot wrote:
well the Moo has 2 little white teeth poking through his bottom gum, they are not all out yet but its imminent! I thought it would be wise to ask for tips in case he turns out to be a biter. He's been doing this pull off thing for the last week or so and he gets 3 chances to settle before the boob gets put away as it hurts. Should I use the same strategy for biting? I'm not sure its working for the pulling off. What I mean by pulling off is when they have a firm grip on th nipple but wrench their heads away fast - ouch. P only bit me maybe 5 times (?). I'd almost scream OUCH and he'd unlatch and understand pretty easily what he did. There is this thing..be prepared. They do this...teeth pressing. Where instead of holding the nipple with their lips or suction, they gently hold it with their teeth. Of course, over the course of a session, this is a bit annoying and starts to hurt a little. I unlatched P this morning and had some nice deep teeth marks. Haven't seen any solution for this...I think they do it when they're lazy :-). -- It's Tis Herself |
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teapot wrote:
well the Moo has 2 little white teeth poking through his bottom gum, they are not all out yet but its imminent! I thought it would be wise to ask for tips in case he turns out to be a biter. I've found pulling Ollie to me works much better than any other method (unlatching him, putting him down, or screaming in pain). He's gone through biting phases three times, and the "pulling him in" method seems to end the phase fastest. -- Sara, accompanied by the four-and-a-half-teethed barnacle |
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"teapot" wrote in message
om... I thought it would be wise to ask for tips in case he turns out to be a biter. He's been doing this pull off thing for the last week or so and he gets 3 chances to settle before the boob gets put away as it hurts. Should I use the same strategy for biting? I'm not sure its working for the pulling off. What I mean by pulling off is when they have a firm grip on th nipple but wrench their heads away fast - ouch. I never give "chances" - I think they are just confusing for the child and make them want to do it *more*, in an attempt to figure out, "why was it OK this time but not OK that time?". He can't count to three, yet. :-) I'm not there yet with DS, and DD didn't do the painful pull-off thing, but when she did try biting, I just *immediately* unlatched her and set her down, then refused to nurse again for at least 15 minutes. After 2, maybe 3 times, she stopped and never bit again. Side-note: The thing to remember with kids (and I am not always good at remembering this myself) is that they are born with *no* *idea* what is OK and what is not. All behaviors are just things that they try out, when or if it occurs to them to do so. Kids are not "bad" or "good", IMO, some are just more experimental than others. ;-) So I try to think of myself more as teaching them than disciplining them. The quickest way to teach something is to have action X result in effect Y immediately and 100% consistently. -- Cheryl S. Mom to Julie, 2 yr., 9 mo. And Jaden, 4 months Cleaning the house while your children are small is like shoveling the sidewalk while it's still snowing. |
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Nina was all, like:
"teapot" wrote ... What I mean by pulling off is when they have a firm grip on th nipple but wrench their heads away fast - ouch. i called that "snapping" the nipple, like a rubber band mine did it because it made milk fly in their faces cant remember them ever biting,if the did i'd just break the latch with my finger Ouch! Mine does that! It hurts a bit even without teeth...maybe I ought to do something about it now, while he's still toothless... -- z e l d a b e e @ p a n i x . c o m http://NewsReader.Com/ |
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"Cheryl S." wrote in message ... "teapot" wrote in message om... I thought it would be wise to ask for tips in case he turns out to be a biter. He's been doing this pull off thing for the last week or so and he gets 3 chances to settle before the boob gets put away as it hurts. Should I use the same strategy for biting? I'm not sure its working for the pulling off. What I mean by pulling off is when they have a firm grip on th nipple but wrench their heads away fast - ouch. I never give "chances" - I think they are just confusing for the child and make them want to do it *more*, in an attempt to figure out, "why was it OK this time but not OK that time?". He can't count to three, yet. :-) I'm not there yet with DS, and DD didn't do the painful pull-off thing, but when she did try biting, I just *immediately* unlatched her and set her down, then refused to nurse again for at least 15 minutes. After 2, maybe 3 times, she stopped and never bit again. Side-note: The thing to remember with kids (and I am not always good at remembering this myself) is that they are born with *no* *idea* what is OK and what is not. All behaviors are just things that they try out, when or if it occurs to them to do so. Kids are not "bad" or "good", IMO, some are just more experimental than others. ;-) So I try to think of myself more as teaching them than disciplining them. The quickest way to teach something is to have action X result in effect Y immediately and 100% consistently. The best way to increase the frequency of a behavior is to reward inconsistently. If MOST bites result in continuted nursing, but a few result in being put down. What you are doing is rewarding the biting, though inconsistenly. This is almost guaranteed to increase it. To extinguish a behavior, u want a definite consequence IMMEDIATELY following the behavior, so the connection is made between the behavior and the result. A good "OW!!!" after being bitten, then moving the child from the breast, should work. Use a verbal cue because babies are always being put down, or taken off the breast, u want teh consequence to be distinct from other behaviors of yours. A good OW! and then unlatching may do the trick. |
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biting - what do you do?
Jessi just bit me a few times the other night. Every time I made a
shocked sucking in air noise and an ouch too. I at least at some point also said no biting. It's kind of fuzzy since it was the middle of the night. Our nursing is usually quite calm, gentle and quiet. We only nurse in bed with the lights dim and a fan on for white noise, so my noises during nursing shocked her alot and she cried and stopped nursing. She went back to sleep with me rubbing her back instead of her nursing, which never happens usually. The next morning she again bit me and I again made all the noises listed above and this time I took the booby away. The next time we nursed I told her no biting right before we started, and then she hesitated several times while trying to latch on like she was afraid to latch on. I think she didn't quite know what she had done wrong before and was afraid to mess it up again. Then with my hand I expressed a little milk onto my nipple, so when put her mouth to my nipple again it tasted like milk and she did greedily latch on and has not bit again since then. I expect her to bite again someday though because babies have short memories. KC (teapot) wrote in message . com... well the Moo has 2 little white teeth poking through his bottom gum, they are not all out yet but its imminent! I thought it would be wise to ask for tips in case he turns out to be a biter. He's been doing this pull off thing for the last week or so and he gets 3 chances to settle before the boob gets put away as it hurts. Should I use the same strategy for biting? I'm not sure its working for the pulling off. What I mean by pulling off is when they have a firm grip on th nipple but wrench their heads away fast - ouch. teapot and the moo boy 7 mths today |
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