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I’ve been super busy these past few days that i wasn’t able to continue the Breastfeeding Experience post.  But it’s better late than never right?

So where was I? Ah, 7 months and beyond.  Breastfeeding is a breeze at this point. I have grown accustomed to expressing milk at work and direct feeding during holidays and week-ends. B.boy has also started eating solids so his milk intake is not that ravenous as before.   That put an end to my pumping-like-crazy routine.

However, it wasn’t all bed of roses either. Hiss teeth came in one by one and now he has 7.  Sometimes he would bite, other times he would scrape. It really hurts, i tell you. We notice that he is prone to biting when he’s teething. Probably the gums are itchy and biting brings relief. So what do I do? The article from KellyMom helps. It offers the following tips which proved to be tried and tested in my case :

Stopping the nursing session is generally the most effective way to teach baby that nursing and biting do not go together. Once baby lets go, remove her from the breast for a bit - it may be a few seconds or a few minutes (this is something where you’ll need to gauge your own baby’s reaction). If baby is teething (which is often the cause of biting), this is a good time to hand baby something cold to chew on, a teething toy, etc. You might tell baby something along the lines of, “if you want to bite, we’re not nursing.” If baby really wants to keep nursing, she may get upset when you end the nursing session, at which point you can wait a few moments then give baby another chance to nurse. If baby is not interested in nursing, she might fuss a few seconds but then go on to something else.

If baby bites, it’s not a good idea to scream or yell on purpose as a method to stop biting — there are better ways to teach baby not to bite. Sometimes, of course, it’s impossible not to yell in pain if baby catches you by surprise and/or bites hard. Sometimes yelling does stop baby from biting again; however, some babies think it’s so funny that they continue to bite for the reaction, and other babies are so scared that they go on a nursing strike. The chance that this method will stop baby biting is simply not worth the problems it can cause.

When we started on solids, we feed him first and nurse afterwards. At the beginning, we give him solids once a day. Then we increase it to twice. Now he is eating 3 times a day. He’s milk and solids intake is good and his healthy body is an undebatable proof. 

At the rate he is going now, i don’t think weaning is imminent. 

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