For medical reasons, my son needs to be breastfed exclusively for the first six months. He'll be six months old in a few weeks, when we'll start to wean him. However, he recently cut his first tooth, and he bites. Hard. The last few times I've nursed him, he has chomped down and brought me to tears. He's too young to empathize at this point, and explaining "That hurts Mummy" does nothing. He does get upset when he sees me in pain, but he doesn't connect yet.
Does anyone have any advice, either to get him to stop biting, or something I can do so that it won't be as painful when he does?
2006-07-20
11:39:51
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