Ow!

[Moos]

Damn baby gave me a hickey.

Just wanted to have a moan about it. Am sure will not actually expire as a result, though it has made feeding a bit more yelpy than usual today. Each time I yelp, he looks at me with mild interest and surprise, as if to say Oh goodness, there's that noisy woman again.

[Ruth_Baldock]

Seb was an absolute bugger (whoops, swearing...) for this when he was getting used to his teeth, circa 5mo old.

[pebbles]

I'd forgotten about the hickeys - owowowow. Funnily baby no.1 was a big hickey giver but baby no.2 never did it!!! I feel for you

[ryedalema]

Littlest madam likes to take a chunk out of my teeth, ear, nose, finger at any opportunity. You see her coming at you with a gooey baby mouth full of slime, half grown teeth and intent....it's like jaws coming at you..

de...der...de...der..de..de.de..de.de.derrrrrrr!!

[buggie]

hmmm the bugglet left (albeit temporary) hicky on my forearm a few wks back - tried her with baby rice the next day and think she was impressed the hint worked!

No teeth yet (phew!) but I swear she's a nail file hidden in her cot = their so sharp (and she does love gripping my lower lip with them!)

[Ruth_Baldock]

Buggie; same with Seb! Sharp little nails even though we clip them three times a week. Or so it seems.

S does a good line in headbutting and boob squishing at the moment. Lovely.

[littleEDfamily]

Uurgh - yes! I woke up this morning from a night of partial co-sleeping/ trying to make her stop whinging by offering her a boob with scratch marks all over my belly. She is also pinching my lovehandles and boobs while feeding. Seriously, does anyone know how you stop them doing this?

[The Nappy Lady]

DD1 was awful for this. With DD2 I wore a breastfeeding necklace from Day 1 (didn't know about them when I had my first). So, she learnt to play with the necklaces instead of me and I never got any of the scratching, hair pulling, fiddling with opposite nipple (my firsts worse habit, and if I tried to stop her she would scratch me, ouch, ouch).

When I did nappy demos all the time I had a stash of the necklaces which I sold for ?10 each so people could see them (lots of different types) and get hold of them without having to shop on line and pay P&P. I've still got some left if anyone is interested - would be great to reduce the endless stash of baby related stuff in the house. Apologies for this now appearing as a sales thread, but really it's the knowledge I'm most interested in passing on.

I really do swear by the breast feeding necklaces, but I do suspect that you need to start with them quite early as (my own theory) is that it basically stops them developing all these other bad habits. These things are designed for the job - very strong (tested to high tension), with lots of bright beads, or animals etc. on them, designed to stimulate both sight and touch. To keep them interested you can keep them hidden inside your clothes, or in a bag and just whip it out at the same time as your....err....feeding apparatus! LOL.

C did bite me, but it was 3 times in 1 day, when she was first adapting to having teeth in her mouth. I actually cried real tears and shouted out loud in pain the 2nd and 3rd time because it hurt so much and she never did it again. I didn't act angry or anything, just said "Ow, Ow that really hurt Mummy" inbetween sobs!! Other than that she honestly didn't ever do any of the stuff you guys mention, and which I too experienced first time around. Of course, with only 2 children to my name it is hard to feel I've done a thorough study, but I do know plenty of other parents that swear by them too.

Hope your babies start to behave themselves soon, it is horrible when you feel like them are beating you up.

xx

[Saffron]

When Little Saff was a few weeks old (in addition to all the other painful breastfeeding problems we had), she once got attached to my areola instead of centred on the nipple. She gave me such a painful and long-lasting hicky, the only thing I can compare it too is a cigarette burn! Thankfully things are much better these days :) x

[Moos]

Yes, I think that's what happened to me, some time in last night's feeding frenzy.