How/when do i ween my child from the breast? She has TEETH.

Firstly, every time she bites you, unlatch, tell her no very sternly, and then relatch her. COntinue doing this, eventually she will get irritated that dinner is being interrupted, and quit biting you. Secondly, you will most likely need to wean her from falling asleep nursing, before you do anything else. She's old enough to fall asleep on her own, and needs to learn how. Otherwise you will have a lot of sleeping problems later on. My suggestion, nurse her an hour before you plan on putting her to sleep. After she's done nursing, put her in a nice warm bath, then cuddle up with her in her pj's and a nice book. THen rock her till she's drowsy. Then place her in her crib, with lights off, however you normally have her room at night time. THen pat her on the back for a few minutes until she's calm (not until she's alseep, b/c then you are just replacing one habit with another), then leave her room. SHe will most likely cry. that's normal and expected. Go into the other room, set a timer for 5 minutes, go back to her room, pat her on the back, until she calms down, don't pick her up, don't talk to her, just wait until she calms down a bit, and then repeat. Do this until she falls alseep. Because she is so old, she will most likely be quite stubborn about this, it may take a lot longer than you expected, but it will get better, I promise. THe next night repeat the same activity, and stretch out the interval from 5 minutes to 10. By the third night, you should be to 15 minutes (if you can bear it, otherwise stay at 10). Eventually she will learn that she has to put herself to sleep, and she'll do it. As far as weaning her, I personally don't have any expierence in this area. BOth of my boys weaned themselves. My oldest weaned at 9 months, my youngest weaned at 6 months. I am having the most difficult time with my youngest, as he refuses to take a bottle at times. I can't get him to take a cup, so many times I resort to spoon feeding him milk, but even then I can only get 1-2 ounces in him at those times. He is just very stubborn, and knows what he wants. I usually can get him to take 2 bottles and sometimes, if I fight him, I can get him to take another 1/2 of one. *sigh* so I really don't have any suggestions for what to do if they don't want cup or bottle. I suppose many will say just give it time, and she'll adjust, which I hope is true, as Mine is almost 8 months now, and I still have to fight him to get milk in him! (:

I don't know how she did it but my sister fed her 6 kids till they were around 2 years old. (OUCH!) Do you have a community nurse or childcare centre where you could go for advice or instruction. This would probably be your best avenue...good luck to you and the small one.

try getting a nursing nipple and put on a bottle even though she is broke it might help for a little while

Oh have I been ther. My son is almost fourteen months, and I finally weaned him two months ago. He had a very bad habit of biting me, and he never wanted a bottle either. I just tried to slowly step up the food, and decrease the nursing. I really think the key is to go slowly. It took me about a month, where I ended up just nursing in the morning and in the evening before bedtime. Then it seemed like he was actually getting less interested in nursing and more interested in eating. My son still gets his milk in a sippy cup, but he will drink out of a cup though. Good luck with it, those bites can be insanely painful.