scratchy pinchy hands rant

teapot wrote :
I cut the moos nails every other day but he still manages to scratch
me to bits when I nurse him.
Any ideas to stop this? gloves?

Emery boards! Works a treat. DD doesn't like me doing it but a spare emery
board in her other hand usually distracts her for a few minutes whilst I
really go for it and file them down to nothing. She can then scrabble at me
all she likes but it doesn't hurt me at all. It's great!

ROSIE

(HollyLewis) wrote in message ...
I
can see the necklace being another distraction but it's worth a go. I
have tried various toys, tucked between us, and I wrap my tshirt as
close as I can without suffocating him but he just wants flesh.

Have you tried letting him grip your thumb? I always grabbed DS' hand and
moved it off of me when he started to knead or pinch my breast or arm, and
usually he would twine his fingers around mine. I quickly discovered that if I
just let him hold onto my hand or thumb, he wouldn't pinch anything more
sensitive. :-)


If I let him hold onto my hand he either windmills his arm or thumps
it back and forth so i end up hitting myself!

teapot

teapot wrote:

I cut the moos nails every other day but he still manages to scratch
me to bits when I nurse him.

He is in the habit of kneading, pulling and pinching me while he
drinks.

Any ideas to stop this? gloves?

No real ideas, just sympathy... I made
a nursing necklace of buttons on thread
floss, but it's his _other_ hand (the one
behind me) that's scratching me to bits
and I can't reach over to it!

-- Anita --