Biting baby

Excuse the double posting, I put this in the feeding section but I think it's hard to find so putting it here as well...

My nearly 8month old daughter is teething and has started biting when she BFs, not fun!

She is just getting her 2nd tooth through now and it's been much more painful for her than the first. If she's just woken up I can feed her ok as she is hungry and doesn't bite till the end which I can cope with as I can look out for that, but the evening feed when she's been up for a few hours she will just bite and smile and not actually start feeding. I have been taking her off immediately when she bites and saying NO and making my face look a bit stern but when I put her back on she just does it again. I really don't like her missing out on this feed longterm as we'll obviously have to keep playing catchup at night (and I'd like to dream of a sleepthrough at some point in the future!)

Has anyone got any ideas for getting past the biting? I thought about nipple shields but wondered if that would cut down on the stimulation and make less milk. I'm unable to express anything worthwhile so BF is really the only option.

Excuse the novel, just hoping someone has the magic answer! (haha, like there actually is such a thing with babies....)

henry started bit me for a couple days each time a new tooth came in. I would take him off the breast, put my finger on his mouth and say very seriously \don't bite mummy' and plop him on the floor (very roughly ) then wait about a minute (he would generally scream upset by my tone and being put on the floor) then i would pick him up and say in a nice voice 'would you like some milk' (i tried to say it as if id completely forgotten he had bit me - a clean slate) then we would try again. If he bit me again the process would repeat itself.
I had decided if he bit me three times then that feed was over. However he never bit me more than twice. And within a day or two he had stopped biting. When a new tooth would come in he seemed to like testing it out and would try biting again but would stop very quickly.

just a side note though - my son was 4months old when he got his first set of teeth so i honestly dont know how well it would work with an older child - but i assume it would work just fine - its pretty much a short form of timeout really

When baby bites are there any cues she gives just beforehand? If you are able to notice these things and try to pre-empt the biting, I would suggest trying to 'correct' it by actually bringing her right in to the breast - she won't suffocate but she will let go of the nipple and it will save any further damage from pulling her off.

Edited by HippyMama

Yup, I'm trying to pre-empt the biting HippyMama. I think if she's not actually that hungry she will start feeding but then bite straight away so I have a finger on standby to put in when I feel her changing pressure in the jaw. I've tried bringing her into me when but she hasn't let go doing this, maybe I need to hold her longer?

The bites at the end of the feed she has stopped doing mostly so we are making progress, and I just need to be more relaxed about the times she feeds I guess.

Gotcha loud and clear Chickoin, NO nipple shield! Ouch