Nipple bitting
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My little boy also has 2 bottom teeth and a top one and ohmy they're razor sharp. I also exclusively breastfeed so I feel your pain, I really do. Mine does it mostly when unlatching in his sleep (he does fully open his mouth), but o agree with the above, that's what I did with my first baby - I'd always say "no" calmly, gently move her away, and wait a few moments. She got it pretty quickly, but this only works when they do it awake and not asleep.
Someone on a different group had this with her first baby and she said if you push them into the boob they stop doing it. I don’t personally breast feed but it may help! x
@Molly I'm sorry you read that somewhere, but that's horrendous 😬 That's because you temporarily cut off their breathing by pushing them onto the boob. I read that "advice" once when I used to breastfeed my eldest and it's shocking how many moms were ready to listen. Please don't "teach" your baby not to bite you by temporarily cutting off their air supply, that's really disturbing 🫠
@Anna Oh really! I had no idea, the person commenting suggested it depends the latch! Or failing that just relatch and try again but that does make sense x
@Molly if it's a latch issue then unlatching, repositioning and relatching should help fix it, but with biting while teething that's normally not the case. Another thing to avoid is giving the baby a big reaction (like squirming, exclaiming, high pitch shriek etc) because they see us do it and they think oh that looks like playtime, they don't actually understand that they're causing us pain. So gently moving them away from milk for a few moments before relatching them means they learn to associate it with time but you're still not causing them discomfort or anything. Hope that makes sense, I've had an awful night so my brain isn't working properly today 🥴 x
Bite the boobie and boobie goes away for a couple of minutes. They soon learn cause and effect