Bite Me!
I am ANGRY. Pissed. Appalled. I am not going to censor myself, and honestly, if I lose readership over it, I do not care because a blog that gets read for me saying what you want to hear isn't a blog I care to keep and maintain. I have read and heard, recently and on several occasions, the following advice, "Flick the baby in the mouth when they bite you [while nursing]!!" I do not agree. I wholeheartedly disagree. I think it is cruel and highly inappropriate. Does it hurt when your child bites you, especially while nursing? Yes! Does it give you a gut reaction, a reaction based out of pain? Yes! Infants do not bite out of a desire to hurt their parents. A baby bites because she is learning about these new strange object in her mouth. She doesn't understand the purpose or function of these sharp little teeth until she tries to use them. Will flicking the infant in the mouth stop the behavio...