I always had teeth marks on my breasts. They never hurt and I compared
them to the marks you got from your pillow if you slept hard on a
wrinkle in your pillow case, or from your jeans when they are too tight
(ok, in the 80's, when I wore too tight jeans). They weren't a big
deal, disappeared almost immediately, and didn't hurt.
Now, real biting hurts. As both my girls had teeth early (Lexie 3
months, Janene 5 months), I learned quickly to watch their latch, and
the minute they started to slip off the breast (ie, falling asleep or
just playing, not interesting in actively nursing) I would take them off
the breast. By 8-9 months or so both clearly understood the "no teeth"
request. Even when Janene was three and four years, she would say "no
teeth" before nursing, as a reminder to herself or me, I don't know but
it was cute and I appreciated the comment. I have a nice scar on each
nipple as a result of a serious bite. Each child only bit me once,
though... Guess it's good I don't have three breasts, though...
Joylyn
Heather McFerrin-Dana wrote:
>I told my client I would post on Lactnet with the hope that someone would
>have some new advice.
>
>Baby is 6 months old and just got her first 2 top teeth. The mom works full
>time and dad bottle feeds all day then mom nurses for all other feeds. Dad also
>brings baby to mom to nurse at lunchtime 3 x per week. The bottle feeding has
>been going on for 2 months and there have been no breastfeeding problems.
>
>Mom now has a deep indentation on her left breast that is obviously from one
>tooth. Baby does not appear to be biting but the tooth is causing injury. This
>has been ongoing for 2 weeks before I saw them.
>
>I suggested holding baby's head closer in to breast, changing positions to
>see if has to do with the way the mouth falls in the cradle position that is
>causing the dent, and treatment with APNO (she already had a Rx for it) for the
>actual wound.
>
>My thought was perhaps the injury happened as the tooth was coming in and
>baby was very uncomfortable and maybe gnawing on her. Maybe if the injury was let
>alone to heal the problem would not continue because the teeth are now fully
>in and not causing discomfort in the baby. But since mom works full time she
>is not wanting to give up any of her nursing time at home to pump and let the
>injury heal.
>She is also hesitant to try many other positions because she is afraid of
>developing dents all around the nipple. Everything else looks great...latch,
>position and nursing was pain free before the eruption of the teeth.
>
>Any thoughts, suggestions? What advice would you all have given? What
>questions would you ask? Thanks so much! Heather Dana
>
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