Biting/Nursing strike

[rinap]

My 4 1/2 month old daughter has started biting me (with two teeth) on occasion. It's startling and painful, so I yelp, which causes her to start screaming. And now she's started refusing to nurse, presumably because sometimes it's scary. She's smiling and happy much of the time, though I think she's extra hungry, and she nurses at night, but during the day she's extra tentative about nursing, and then gets bitey. Today she only stops crying when I am actively rocking her, which is tricky, because her sister needs feeding and changing too.

Any suggestions?

[QueenOfTheMeadow]

Could she be getting in another tooth? Also, can you get her to nurse before she takes a nap, so that she's comfy and half asleep?

[rinap]

The nap thing is tricky, because she wants to nurse to get sleepy, but also doesn't.

But today has been going better. So maybe she'll forget the bad parts (she's only biting a little when she starts to fall asleep, and I can just have her open up and stop, rather than screaming as I was when she bit down hard)

Probably teething. How many teeth will they have before six months?!?! Crazy. They have four now (two each), and are working on more.