How do you breast nurture a teething little one painlessly?
My daughter is 2 months old and has gotten her first tooth (!!). She is excited about her food and recurrently bites down while she's eating, which didn't bother me before but now that nearby are teeth involved I'm not too pleased. She's so young that she doesn't understand when I pull her stale whenever she bites, which is what my mom told me to do. When I pull her off, she just get frantic and bites even more once she latches back on. I tried giving her a bottle of expressed milk as well, but she is extremely reluctant to take a bottle, and we're only successful about 25% of the time (Dad give her the bottle, not me, but I have tried as well). Has anyone else's baby gotten teeth this early? How did you treaty with this?
Answers: If she's able to bite you then she isn't nursing properly. If she's latched right and actively ingestion then her tongue should cover her teeth (assuming lower teeth here, they're usually the first). If she's not eating, pull her past its sell-by date. She will get it eventually that if she plays with her food, she doesn't eat. Just don't preserve her off for too long since she's so young. About 30 seconds or so should do it.
Something else you could do is shout when she bites. Not at her, simply in general. She'll probably cry, and it may sound scrounging but it's effective. She doesn't want to hurt you and babies associate cries like that with spasm, so if she sees that she'll stop.
ETA: Really? Well then she can bite while she eats. You can still try taking her rotten and yelling though, the effectiveness of those techniques shouldn't alter by tooth.
Here's a page that should give you other tips: http://kellymom.com/bf/older-baby/biting…
The best thing I can tell you to do is to be immensely diligent about a good latch. If her tooth even touches you, pull her past its sell-by date and try again. She'll get the hang of it (like when she was a newborn) Source(s): I nursed my son next to a mouthful of teeth
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Answers: If she's able to bite you then she isn't nursing properly. If she's latched right and actively ingestion then her tongue should cover her teeth (assuming lower teeth here, they're usually the first). If she's not eating, pull her past its sell-by date. She will get it eventually that if she plays with her food, she doesn't eat. Just don't preserve her off for too long since she's so young. About 30 seconds or so should do it.
Something else you could do is shout when she bites. Not at her, simply in general. She'll probably cry, and it may sound scrounging but it's effective. She doesn't want to hurt you and babies associate cries like that with spasm, so if she sees that she'll stop.
ETA: Really? Well then she can bite while she eats. You can still try taking her rotten and yelling though, the effectiveness of those techniques shouldn't alter by tooth.
Here's a page that should give you other tips: http://kellymom.com/bf/older-baby/biting…
The best thing I can tell you to do is to be immensely diligent about a good latch. If her tooth even touches you, pull her past its sell-by date and try again. She'll get the hang of it (like when she was a newborn) Source(s): I nursed my son next to a mouthful of teeth
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