Weaning From Breast Feeding
January 24th, 2012Free Baby Stuff
Once your child has ceased breast feeding and acquires all of his nourishment from sources other than the breast, he’s considered weaned. Bottle babies can be considered weaned when they stop bottle feeding, but the term weaning frequently pertains to when a child has ceased from breast feeding.
When weaning is the mother’s idea, it typically demands a lot of time and patience; this depends on the age of your child, and how well your child adapts. The overall experience is different for everyone.
Weaning constitutes a long good-bye, occasionally emotional and occasionally painful. However, it doesn’t signal an end to the closeness you and your child have developed during the nursing stage. What it entails is replacing the breast milk with other types of nourishment.
Starting to wean
It is your best guess as to when it is the correct time to start weaning; you do not have a deadline unless you and your child are both really ready to wean. The suggested time for weaning is at one year of age. It doesn’t matter what relatives, friends, or even total strangers tell you, there is no right or wrong time for weaning.
How to wean
You should proceed slowly with weaning, regardless of what the age of your baby may be. Experts state that you should not suddenly withhold your breast, as this experience could make the process traumatic for your baby. However, you should try the following three techniques as an alternative:
1. Skip a feeding – Skip a feeding and discover what comes about, offer a cupful of milk to your child instead. As a substitue, you can use a bottleful of your own pumped milk, formula, or a cow’s milk. If you trim down feedings one by one, your child will sooner or later adapt to the changes.
2. Abbreviate feeding time – You can begin by cutting down the duration of time your child is actually at the breast. If normal feeding time is five minutes, try three. Depending upon the age, follow the feeding with a healthy snack. Bed time feedings are commonly the hardest to wean, as they are ordinarily the final feeding to go away.
3. Postpone and distract – You can defer feedings if you’re only feeding a few times per day. This technique works great if you have an older child you are able to reason with. If your child wants the breast, tell them that you’ll feed later then distract him.
If you have attempted everything and weaning does not appear to be working at all, it’s possible that the time just isn’t right. You could wait just a little longer to see what comes about. Your baby and you have to figure out the correct time to wean together.
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