i say hold him a lil longer after he tries to bite if you put him down every time he bites he will learn to bite if he wants down as thats what your more or less doing.

old trick use to use was put a piece of clothing in his cage like a shirt you dont care about. wear it for a few hours to most of the day so it gets your scent on it. then put it in his cage he will get use to your scent. but now a days allot more is known that doing stuff like that could bring something harmful into your pets cage. if you just wear the clothing around the house and wont have dogs, cats or stuff like that climb on you it might be OK to do it like that so it gets use to your scent. thay way even when you aint holding him he smells you all the time so might help tame him down to at least getting use to your scent. i myself now a days just take the hit aint like it hurts from a baby now a adult would be a Lil different story.

a question how long did you have your baby before you started handling him i myself prefer a month to let them settle in and get use to me reaching in there cage here and there other then that i don't check in on them or anything just let them be to get use to there new surroundings (now my baby green tree pythons when i got them i was checking on them what seemed like every 5 minutes way the wrong thing to do with a green tree python stresses them out really bad) so i can understand wanting to check to make sure the new babies are OK (even more so when they cost a pay check per snake or more) but like my biggest green i finally let them be for a time being and they quite trying to strike me when ever they saw me (i recently had to hold both and didn't get bitten and thats saying allot if you would of saw how they acted when i first got them and there first 2 to 3 months with me both are always ready to eat and most movement sends them after it. other then my hand lately. I'd say this last month or so they aint struck at me even once)