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Benjamin & Sarah's Babyblog is a collection of notes on our children's development and experiences as well as occassional links to information on the Web of personal interest as a parent.

Biting baby

Benjamin has been biting in the last several weeks. Sometimes when he gets frustrated or a little anxious, he looks for Mommy or Daddy and bites our hands, shoulders, legs, face… He bites also right before going to sleep at night.
From the very beginning we have been as calmly and firmly as possible letting him know that biting is unacceptable, and trying not to overreact. But it doesn't seem like we're being successful in discouraging this behavior.

Several articles on the Web about this [1, 2, 3…] but all I learn from them is that basically we're already doing all we can do.

So, stick with the plan. Close eyes. Take deep breath. Relax. It shall pass. Relax.

Comments:

[2004/03/28 @ 09:03:55] Ms wrote:
I'm having the same problem with my 9 month old.
[2004/03/28 @ 11:03:04] Daddy wrote:
Ms, only a couple of weeks after I wrote this post, I noted that indeed Benjamin was not biting anymore: http://babyblog.org/archive/?5/20/2003_200316576
So, patience!
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