I’m a breastfeeding mama of an eight-month-old who currently has three teeth and has another one coming in. She has started biting my nipple, and it is making my nipples very raw and sore. I also pump and have a supply of milk built up, but my baby absolutely refuses to drink from a bottle. We’ve used cups, but she doesn’t drink nearly as much as she needs to. I plan on continuing breastfeeding until she is two years old, but I’m at a loss on what to do. If anyone has any suggestions on maybe how to get her to latch onto a bottle or possibly another alternative that would ensure she gets the milk she needs, I would really appreciate it. I just don’t know what to do at this point. Thank you!
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Try different teets hun
I tried 3 teets then my girl likes it
Also try rubbing your breast milk on the teet it might help
Hate to say it but some babies just won’t. My girls never took a bottle no matter what nipple or bottle or if i soaked it in my breast milk. I had to wait until they started cups
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When she bites hold her nose and say “no biting” very firmly. It worked for my 5 kids
You could try a nipple shield… My baby was exclusively breastfed. Wouldn’t take a bottle and I couldn’t use the shield. She did however love drinking water out of a medicine dropper.
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Both my babors preferred suppy cups. Went straight to sippy cups at like 6 and the other 9 months. The kind that especially worked is the sippy cup trainer. The sippy cup with the soft rubber spout. And besides that, it had to be someone else goving the bottle/cup. They never took from me well. But when i went to work, they took it just fine.
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Some breast fed babies never take a bottle Flick he when she bites and stop nursing tell her no sternly.
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I was told by a lactation counselor that if the baby bites you while nursing, you stop, put the baby down and put the boob away. And to do it every time they bite you. This will show them they don’t get to nurse if they bite you.
As for a bottle, try having someone else give her the bottle (like dad) when you are out of the house. Some babies won’t take a bottle if they know you are near by
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Get several different bottles to try. Some babies prefer certain ones. Persistence and consistency are key. Just keep trying and baby will get use to it with time.
My daughter was like this. She would REFUSE a bottle. I started heating up her formula bottles and now she’s open to taking the bottles. She drank over 10 ounces of formula today & I’ve been trying for months
Nanobebe bottles have worked greatly with mine. Also shaped like a boob and they held it right away on their own.
Biting started with my son but I would stop nursing immediately and say “you bit me, we’re done” and he would cry but it didnt take him long to understand not to bite anymore. Dont give up! Im very glad we were able to continue for health and bonding reasons. Babies Cant bite while they nurse because their tongue goes over their bottom teeth while they nurse. Its false info that you have to wean once they start biting. You just stop nursing once they are done feeding. If they get bored they might bite.
The few times my daughter did it i accidentally yelled and it scared her to the point it made her cry so needless to say she didn’t do it anymore 
but yes I agree with the other moms postings about stopping feedings
When my kids bit I screamed ouch loud and sharp and took the boob away, for a few minutes, they learned not to bite. Also for bottle feeding there are bottle nipples that are much like the natural one, if you offer it first before the breast, or have dad offer the bottle they will learn to accept it.
Try a sippy cup, my babies went from nip to cup!
GOOD luck
My daughter would not take a bottle either, we had a small fortune in bottles but the Mam bottle worked finally! Good luck Momma❤️
Ok I don’t know how to really explain this but I’m gonna try… when it’s time to feed her take the bottle and put it up to your boob it’s kinda like making it look like your gonna give her the boob but its actually the bottle.
Or you can try a little sugar water on the bottle nipple.
Have u tried mam bottles?
Leave the room and have someone else give her a bottle. Have them give her the bottle leaning against their chest (or some other non-traditional breast feeding position).
I’ve been pretty lucky my son was ok with a bottle. To help try only letting the nipple half full so they have to suck to bring milk out instead of the milk dripping into their mouths. This lightly mimicks mom’s nipple and helps them not to aspirate milk
Go through bite training as Brittany Lynne Laughlin has said above.
As far as a bottle goes, 30 minutes before feeding time you need to disappear and have someone else feed the bottle. Don’t wait until they are hungry, and don’t be there. My kids would always cry and cry at the bottle until I gave in with the boob. But by removing myself well ahead of time, their father could get them to take the bottle. We would time it so I would be out of the house, gone shopping or just sitting quietly out on the deck with my book. But has to be long enough so they know you are not just gone for a minute.
Not that it always works, but I’ve heard feeding from the breast initially and then offering a bottle halfway through sometimes works. When they’re really hungry they get too frustrated trying to learn how to readjust their latch for a bottle. Hope you find something that works mama.
Here is how to get her to stop biting:
Every time she starts to bite down, cry out in pain and pull her away from the breast. Wait a moment, then let her return to nursing.
If she bites down again, do the same thing, but wait longer.
If she continues, pull the breast away and only offer the bottle, til next feed.
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She will. Children are creatures of necessity. She will eat when she is hungry enough. Just let her get hungry enough. Don’t give in the first or second time. It’s ok to let them cry. Ugh. This string makes me know why I hate other people’s kids.
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Try switching to a sippy cup instead of a bottle. Ours way the same way. Bought probably 500 dollars worth of different bottles for this exact reason. Wanted nothing at all to do with any bottle so I got desperate and handed her a cup. She took to a sippy cup instantly.
When my girl bit I flocked her cheek saying don’t bite and she let go. Then we started again, it took several times over a day or so to make her stop. She was worse when my mom was around because grandma scolded me for flickinh her cheek. Mom never nursed any of hers past 6 weeks so she never got bit.
Leave and have someone else give her the bottle. It took mine awhile but it finally worked. Also try different bottles. We tried TONS. Finally we found Playtex Ventaire and that’s ALL she ever took.
Try different bottles until you find one she likes. My boy will take the Nuk naturals. I know a lot of bf mamas that have had good luck with comotomo.
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Ive heard they have nipple covers. Never seen them. But somebody told me about them. I only lasted 8 monyhs with all of my kids. I couldnt handle being a chewing toy!!! Good luck!!!
I tried everything with my youngest, in the end it was boob or nothing so we just got home to stop biting. (He bit in his sleep sometimes still)
When I bit I tapped his back very gently and pulled away from him, he got upset then didn’t bite for a while
Make sure baby is not in pain by using pain relief of some kind. If biting happens, take baby off right away and sit on floor.
Unfortunatly she may never want to take a bottle. We tried every bottle out there with my granddaughter and she absolutely refused 
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Start trying to use a sippy cup with handles. Put breast milk in there.
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I am going through the same thing except when i pump i don’t get much out so i don’t have a good supply saved up…but this is how you get her to take a bottle, and this is going to be very hard for you but it’ll be worth it in the end. Seitch to pumping only for 2 days. Only offer bottle. She will accept the bottle when she’s hungry enough. Ive had so many moms tell me to do this, and i wouldve done it already if i had a good supply of bm but i don’t. I’ve been using different bottles and a sippy cup with a lil bit of juice here and there just to see if my son will take the bottle. He does sometimes but mostly chews on it and if it’s milk he absolutely refuses. If she’ll drink juice out of the bottle but not milk maybe the milk isnt the temperature she likes it
I breastfed my girls but also gave a bottle from day one so my husband could feed the baby too and knowing she would be in daycare she would need to be on a bottle. I also work in daycare and in the infant room and we had a baby who was strictly breast
Fed and wouldn’t take a bottle either. Mom would come on her lunch to feed her but the doc said to stop that. That she will take the bottle eventually. Took 2 days at the daycare before she took the bottle. Very stressful but they will get it. I used the avent bottles and the evenflo nipples and worked freat
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I would lightly flick the baby with my finger when they would bite and tell them no. Again not enough to hurt just to break their suction and concentration. I had a couple who refused bottles. So we just didn’t.
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You will have to work with her, warm the milk since that’s what she’s used to . Rub the bottle nipple on her gum, and she’ll taste the breast milk and latch on, if she is hungry enough. I’ve been exclusively breastfeeding my 4 month old and she REFUSED a bottle till I started working with her everyday. Start during the day when she’s least interested. Then she will eventually start taking a bottle
It was very hard with all of my children I have four kids they were all breastfed some of them like certain kinds of nipples on bottles I was fortunate with my third son no second sign that he went straight from my breast to a cup he did not like any bottles he wanted mama there’s something about the nursery and feeling of we already know you’re breastfeeding there’s something about that that last forever I have a 2 year old daughter that is so obsessed with sleeping on my breast that it still has a calming effect on me I don’t know if other people experiences that when breastfeeding make your body releases hormones and one of my daughter takes a nap or pause asleep on me it’s like almost like somebody gave me a drug and I fall asleep with her there different types of nipples and bottles and all of that good luck
If baby bites then tell them no and remove the breast. They will learn trust me. I have a 9 month old with 6 teeth and 2 more coming in. He’s bitten me maybe 2-3 times and learned right away. As for the bottle I use dr. Browns but use the preemie nipple and the wide neck nipples. Also, maybe try some milk in a sippy cup. My son loves his cup.
Try mam bottles, my first was the same used tommee tippee he was not interested then took mam straight away, I have then used them for my rest (5 breast fed then on to bottles when older) xx
Try having somebody else bottle feed them. Or try a cup with a straw. A child I had in my daycare class was a breastfed baby and he would only drink from a support cup with a straw
I jumped and scared the heck out of my middle child and he never bit me again. Of course it was just a reaction.
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Let someone else feed the baby. The boob being right there it seems like you are giving her a choice. If someone else feeding her she sees the bottle as the only choice.
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A nipple shield would probably work best, this way you still get the bonding of breastfeeding but not the pain.
I had this exact issue with my son. I ended up just trying multiple bottles and wasting money until I said forget it and just gave him the soft nippled Nuk sippy bottles. They were like a sippy cup lid but soft. I supplemented with baby food and within a week he was entirely drinking from those cups and eating baby food as normal. Just be consistent, that was the hardest part. Trust that when they get hungry they will eat.
In my experience, Philips Avent Natural bottles seem to be the closest to imitate breastfeeding.
I breastfeed my daughter till she was four.Just brake the seal by gently flicking the babies check and say no.It worked for me.
Try a breast shield! 1) wont make you raw 2)wont be so hard to get her to take a bottle
I tried every fancy expensive bottle out there and my son would not take ANY.
Belive it or not for both sons, the ons and only bottle they would take are the cheap ass Gerber ones!
Keep trying with bottle. It’ll take time but eventually she’ll take the bottle.
And here i am wondering why my 4 in a half month old stopped latching at 3 months and wanted a bottle🤣 she herself decided she wanted to be bottlefed lol.
I’ll never get those moments back but I’m glad I got my boobs back:rofl:
When she bites you. Remove your breast from her mouth, tap a few times on her lips, & say no no, it actually works.
have you tried the 360 cups? if they will drink from a cup they might like those.
They have a nipple that you can put over nipple…
When she bites,grab her mouth and scold her sharply, even a baby needs discipline. Going a day without milk won’t hurt her, but your nerves will be shot after 24 hours, and till she takes a bottle
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Try using a nuk nipple on the bottle. That’s what worked for mine.
may be a little late to introduce bottle…have you tried ‘startling’ when she bites?
Bite back. Not enough to inflict pain, or harm her. Enough to show her that it’s not pleasant & tell her no. For the bottle the only suggestion I have is that it may have to be implemented by someone else giving it to her. She knows you have the good stuff/comfort & she might willingly take it from another.
If you want her to feed from a bottle you can’t be the one. If she’s old enough to hold it on her own set her up and leave the room just so she can’t see you. Or have someone else feed her until she’s okay with it. With you there she’ll never want a bottle cuz the real thing is right there!
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Have you tried a latch guard. It helps transfer to a bottle
my sister used a nipple guard for that reason, I believe so anyway
This is what I used .
Shes old enough to eat food and milk is just a supplement. If shes still gaining weight on time she fine
Order nipple guard. Just search it
Had this issue as well. My daughter was 7 months and exclusively breastfed. She wouldn’t take a bottle. My kidney shut down and I had to go to the hospital for 3 weeks and my mom tried 20 different bottles before she found one she would take. She had to feed her with a medicine dropper until then. This was the only nipple she would take
We had to go throught every bottle and nipple known to man to find the right one . This was the only brand and exact bottle/nipple she would take
I completely stopped breastfeeding from my breast with my oldest son when he got teeth he grew teeth way way early and when he kept fighting on my nipples too much so he went from me tell me pumping and giving him bottles but that was like 20 years ago
Lucy Maynard maybe they have something in the comments that will help you
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I tried…never happened
Dr browns bottles are really good
I’ve seen were some mommas freeze the breastmilk into baby pops and offer them to their teething little ones. This helps with both feeding and offers gum comfort.
Unpopular answer. That baby will take any nipple when they’re hungry enough. Cant reason with an 8 month old. It’s not gonna be easy, but it wont take long once they figure out that’s where the food comes from.
My mom breastfed me, the 1 and only time I bit her she pulled me off right away and sat me down. Now this is what she told me, usually the child catches on and won’t bite.