How do I stop the biting??

beck8008

Not sure what's going on and need some advice. LO has 4 top and 4 bottom front teeth. Over the past few weeks he has started biting more and more and has gotten even worse the past 3 days.  He seems to bite the most when he is excited, tired or really trying to snuggle. Every time he bites one of us we try to stop what we're doing and say something along the lines of "No biting- that hurts mama/daddy" He'll look at me and just bite me again. It doesn't usually hurt all that much, but I don't want this to continue. Any advice?

 

TiffanyBerry

Have you tried giving him something he CAN bite?

acbfreire

Give him something he can bite to redirect from biting you.

Wipz

toys R us have an awesome teether/pacifier type thing.. its yellow  rubber and has a two prong with balls on it.. to reach to the back and sides. those things are awesome and I havent seen them anywhere else.

https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12482995

ktpaladino

I just wanted to say we are going through the same thing, and we've tried EVERYTHING and nothing helps. We've pretty much just gotten to the point where we're praying its a phase that he will outgrow soon. We've tried giving him teething and rubber items instead but he's not at all interested and he just throws them down. We've tried holding his face firmly and saying no, but he just laughs. We've tried putting him down but then he just continues to bite my legs. We just say either "NO BITING!" or "OUCH THAT HURTS" when he does it. When he continues to push it I give him a swift tap on the back to get his attention and then he'll usually do the fat lip for a few seconds and stop. If he's biting me on the legs while I'm doing something, I push his head away and sit him down as many times as necessary....sometimes this is 20 times in a row before he stops. A lot of times he starts laughing at me and it turns into a game but I'm just trying to be really consistent with raising my voice and showing him it hurts me. I feel like once his comprehension skills mature, it will start to get better, but for now it certainly is a challenge.

tbmadeamistake

DD went through this phase a little while ago.  We would firmly say "No Biting!" and put her sitting down far enough away from us that she couldn't easily reach us (a few feet, not across the room).  Very quickly she learned not to bite.  I never really redirected with something else because I was worried she would think it's all right to bite everything else!