When is the best time for children to give up breast milk? 6 to 8 months or 10 to 18 months?

Hello, I'm Ma Jing, and I'm glad to answer your question.

Speaking of. Weaning? I remember a vivid description: weaning is like being lovelorn.

Yes, weaning is a big event for the baby, and it is not easy for the mother to make a decision. The feeling of emptiness after weaning is just like the baby no longer needs you. It takes some time to get used to it.

For the baby, if the preparation for weaning is not sufficient, it will not only affect the baby's physical development, but also have a great impact on the baby's psychological development.

So? Scientific weaning? It needs a transition period, doesn't it? Mom needs to tell the baby in advance, let the baby know what will happen and help the baby do well? Transition preparation? That is to adapt to the formula in advance, so that the baby is not painful.

When is the best time for children to stop breastfeeding, 6-8 months or 10- 18 months? The World Health Organization recommends that infants should continue to breastfeed until they are 2 years old or above after adding complementary food for 6 months.

Despite WHO's recommendation, in real life, few mothers can breastfeed until they are 2 years old. Due to various reasons such as inconvenient work, the baby always bites his mother during teething, and simply weans if the breast milk is not enough.

Therefore, most mothers weaned their babies when they were 1- 1.5 years old, and even some mothers could not hold on to their babies 1 years old.

Therefore, Ma Jing personally feels: When will the baby be weaned? It should be based on the actual situation of individuals. If you are a full-time mother, the breast milk condition is very good, it is best to wean at the age of 2 or naturally wean after 2 years old; What if it's for various reasons? Special circumstances? If you can't persist until you are 2 years old, you can arrange weaning according to your own situation, but it is recommended to be at least after 1 year old.

How to wean your baby scientifically? As mentioned earlier, it is necessary to wean your baby scientifically. For details, please refer to the following suggestions:

1. Step by step, natural transition

If both mother and baby are well prepared, breast milk can be cut off quickly. But if the baby is very dependent on breast milk, then fast weaning will make the baby feel uncomfortable, and some mothers are unwilling to wean the baby, which is easy to appear? Repeated weaning? An unsuccessful situation.

Therefore, weaning should be gradual, such as breastfeeding 6 or 5 times a day, and then gradually reduce after the mother and baby are adapted until the breast milk is completely cut off.

2. Adapt to formula milk in advance

When you are ready to start weaning, you should first try to make your baby like to drink formula milk. If the baby refuses formula milk, for the baby over 1 year old, the mother can also add some milk to the complementary food, such as milk rice paste, steamed eggs with milk, double-skin milk and so on. Let the baby adapt to the milk.

It should be noted that babies should be encouraged to drink more formula milk or drink more milk, but babies still need breast milk, mom? You can't completely refuse, lest the baby feel that his mother doesn't love him, and it will be more difficult for him to accept formula milk after he feels insecure.

3. First cut off breast milk during the day, then cut off night milk and a meal before going to bed.

Most breast-fed babies have the habit of feeding at midnight and before going to bed at night. It is relatively easy for a baby not to eat breast milk during the day. If you take it out for exercise or eat some complementary food, your baby will forget to eat breast milk. The hardest thing is night milk and a meal before bed.

Therefore, the mother can wean the baby at night after the baby does not eat breast milk during the day, and then wean the baby before going to bed. Of course, in this process, they need the active cooperation of their father and other family members, which makes it easier to wean them at one time.

? Method of breaking milk at night:

The baby still feeds before going to bed, and when sleeping at night, let Bao Dad sleep next to the baby. If the baby wakes up in the middle of the night, Bao Dad will pat the baby to sleep first to see if he can continue to sleep. If you can't sleep, you can give your baby formula.

There will be some difficulties at first, and it will be fine if you get used to it in a few days, but the mother must insist on not breastfeeding the baby, otherwise she will not be able to stop breastfeeding at night.

? How to break breast milk before going to bed;

After giving up night milk, the baby began to give up bedtime milk. Similarly, the father or grandmother coaxed the baby to sleep temporarily. Before going to bed, he poured 150 ml formula milk for his father to feed the baby. It doesn't matter if the baby doesn't drink it, because there is complementary food, so mom doesn't have to worry.

The baby must have refused at first. If the baby cries badly, mothers should not bear to hug or nurse to sleep, which will make all previous efforts in vain.

4. Reduce your baby's dependence on your mother.

Before weaning, we should consciously reduce the time that mothers spend with their babies and increase the time that babies spend with their fathers or grandmothers. Tell the baby to wean him in advance and give the baby a psychological adaptation process.

Mother can let others take the baby out for activities during the day, but it is not recommended that mother hide or leave directly and leave the baby to grandma to take care of. Because of weaning, the baby will feel uncomfortable, and it will be even worse if he can't see his mother again.

Therefore, it is necessary to gently wean the baby, and the mother will accompany the baby through this period.

Mom can take medicine or drink tea when she goes back to milk.

In addition to the hard work of the baby during weaning, the mother is actually harder. Although you can't feed your baby, but the milk continues to secrete, then your breasts may swell like stones.

So when mothers start weaning, they can go to the pharmacy to buy some medicine for returning milk or drink some barley tea. At the beginning, it was still flatulence, so a part of it was squeezed out with a breast pump, so it was better not to flatulence, and the milk could be returned in 3-4 days.

Don't hold back or apply hot compress or massage, which may lead to mastitis or promote continuous milk secretion.

Let me talk about my weaning experience again.

My son was weaned at 2 years old, and I went to work when my son was 4 months old. My grandparents always help take care of him together. When weaning, I agreed with him in advance that my grandparents would take him to the park to play during the day and bring the children back for dinner when eating.

In the evening, we brought him enough food for dinner, then played with him for a while, took a bath and listened to a story to put him to sleep. Although it may be obvious that he wants to eat milk, he is still old and can understand the truth. I told him? Milk elf? He listened to the story carefully. It lasted almost a week, and then it broke.

? Write at the end:

In the process of weaning the baby, mothers should not only let the baby gradually adapt to the changes in diet, but also have a decisive attitude. They shouldn't delay weaning just because the baby cried for a while. You can't take a day off, let the baby breastfeed for a few days, and then take another day off and breastfeed for a few days.

Repeated weaning will only bring bad emotional stimulation to the baby, which will have an impact on mental health, easily lead to emotional instability, refusal to eat complementary food and poor sleep quality.

So, to sum up briefly, it is: be patient but also cruel, gentle and wean your baby step by step.

The above is the answer to this question, I hope I can help you and wish your baby health!

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