Upper teeth impressions on my boob-- how long does this last???

[vanessab23]

I remember this happening with DS1, but he quit nursing rather abruptly at 13 mos so I don't know how long this phase lasts. Is this a phase as they learn to nurse with lots of teeth-- or does persist??? It can be pretty painful and in the night (when DS2 nurses ALL. NIGHT. LONG.) I find I have to occasionally twist the boob a little so he rests his teeth on a new spot.

My breasts are ginormous (right now, and always), so I wonder if this is more of a big-boob-gal problem. I did notice today that if I compressed the boob near the nipple a little, he had a smaller amount to grab onto and thus it hurt less-- that's where I got the "smaller breast wouldn't have this problem" theory.

Thoughts? Advice?

[pbjmama]

Show him how to open his mouth really wide to nurse. Usually they need a little guidance to fix a latch that is leaving marks on the breast.

[mojobot2000]

I have very small breasts, and I still have this problem! It was painful when DD's teeth first came in, but for whatever reason I seem to have gotten used to it. The indentations are still there, but it doesn't hurt. Anyway, what I did when it hurt was make sure DD's head was tilted back--I asked her "look at mama"--so there was less pressure from above. Also nursed in different positions, specifically a modified "toddler" football hold where she sat next to me, facing the opposite direction, basically tucked up under her armpit--just to get the teeth off the sore spot for a while. All this is hard to do at night! Good luck.

[Emmery'sMom]

Keep your finger under his chin to keep him looking up. Or like you already noticed pressing down on the breast helps relieve the pressure of those top teeth.

Last week my DD was rubbing blisters into my boob from her top teeth. It was because she had a bottom tooth coming in and she was trying not to put much pressure on the bottom so there was more from the top (did that make sense??). Once the bottom tooth cut through she went back to her normal-albeit more toothy- latch.

[bvholbi]

Any luck with the teeth indentations? I've been struggling with this the last couple of weeks with my 13 month old (although like mojobot2000 I also have very small breasts so I'm not sure it is size-related...in fact, I was starting to hypothesize that it was a small-boob-gal problem!)

I've tried everything - different positions, DS sitting, tilting his head back, relatching a billion times - and it is still uncomfortable. Hoping you have found a silver bullet solution?

[Materfamilias]

[Emmery'sMom]

This happened to us again, this time on the other boob and it was from her bottom teeth! I got some nasty blisters I thought her tongue was always covering her bottom teeth up, but apparently not. She didn't have any new teeth break through, but it stopped as suddenly as it started. I think her teeth may have been moving (I've heard they can come down a bit and go back up?).
I ended up nursing on that side only when I had to and pumping a couple times instead, but even that hurt. I also used a touch of lanolin through the day. We were back to normal by day 3.

I hope yours resolved as easily as mine did.

[blackbird2]

Hi, big-boobed gal here. DS always leaves tooth indentations, but I don't find them uncomfortable. However, whenever he's teething (no matter where the tooth is) I usually find nursing to be uncomfortable - luckly it doesn't usually last more than a week.

[LorenaAZ]

lol Your post title made me laugh. We are dealing with the same thing here and I have tiny boobs....so it's not just a big boob problem. My daughter has had 8 teeth since she was 5 months old. But the indentation marks have gotten worse in the last few months. She's now 14 months old. I don't know what to do about it.....I'm hoping that, like everything else, this too shall pass. I've gotten some cuts from her teeth a few times and it's no fun. Glad to find we're not the only ones with this glitch.

[love being a Mom]

Medium sized here - but we've had the same thing since DD cut her top teeth at a ~year. It's beginning to drive me nutso again though. We just do a lot of unlatching and "Open wide" but nothing really seems to make it go away. I will try the "look at Mama", that might help.

[vanessab23]

"this too shall pass" as my mother always tells me in times like these....

it did go away for awhile.... i was trying the tip of unlatching and asking him to open wide...he would (not latched though-- he was just showing me that he could mirror me, lol).....

anyway, it went away and then came back slightly. i do think twisting the boob a little helped so that he rested the teeth on a new spot.

seems to come and go.

no magic bullet per se, just try new positions, twisting slightly, asking baby to "open wide!".....