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Oh, get your mind out of the gutter.

No, how to make a woman scream is much less exciting than what you’re thinking. It involves a toddler with teeth and a very tender portion of a woman’s anatomy that is generally not publicly viewable (unless you’re performing during the Superbowl wearing a suspect wardrobe item.)

So, yeah, that comment I made several days ago about breastfeeding a toddler with teeth not really being that different than breastfeeding a newborn or infant that hasn’t yet cut his/her teeth? Total bollocks. She’s bitten me FOUR TIMES in the past TWO DAYS, drawing blood TWICE. Yes, I screamed out loud… expletives, even (great, more inspiration for her first words!)

It’s a good thing we’re breastfeeding primarily only to soothe at this point (clearly, to soothe her, as the prospect of being bitten is not the least bit soothing to me!) because I’m not sure my nerves and nipples can take this for much longer. Before the biting started, I’d already gone back to my pre-pregnancy birth control pill (a multi-hormone pill with the highest effectiveness, but with a likelihood that it will diminish my milk supply) vs. the “mini-pill” which I went on after delivery (to avoid the milk supply issues of the former.) So the biting isn’t an issue insofar as I’ve already been gradually weaning Sara from breastmilk… thank goodness. (I stopped pumping at 7 months. More power to anyone who pumps exclusively or for more than half a year–it was a total time sink, and a frustrating exercise for someone like me who never had an over-abundant supply.)

Anyway, just an update to indicate that I’ve now experienced the full affect of teeth. Yeouch!

But, hey, Sara has (so far) never been sick — not even a fever (except after two of her routine immunization series.)