Tips on How to Stop Breastfeeding
These are some of the considerations that you should take before you start weaning the baby. How to stop breastfeeding depends on certain conditions. This is not something that can be done in a single day. Your child should be breastfed for at least 6 months before you decide to wean the child. This is because; the mother’s milk has a number of elements that can provide protection to the health of the baby. Children that are at a high risk of asthma or other diseases should be weaned off after 6 months.
If your child is falling sick very often, then it is best to continue breastfeeding. Breast milk is the most nutritious milk for the baby. It’s appetizing and can be easily digested by the baby. In fact babies will refuse any other sort of milk when they are sick. However they will never say no to breastfeeding when they are sick. Breast feeding for the babies is also reassuring and can be extremely good for the bay and the mother.
Start the elimination process really slowly. For the first week, eliminate the breast feed starting with the breakfast. Then gradually proceed with the other feeds. Replace the breastfeed with watered down goat’s milk or any other milk that the baby finds easy to digest. Remember that the process of weaning should be really slow. When you start the process of weaning, you breast may still feel heavy as it is used to the baby asking for the breast feed. At this time, express the milk out of the breast to ensure that your breasts don’t feel heavy at all.
Depending on the age at which you stop breastfeeding, it is also important to give an alternative source of food. For example if your child is 6 months old, when you want to stop breast feeding, then you would need to give some kind of semi solid food or some formula milk. If the baby is more than 1 year old and has been otherwise having proper meals, then the breast feed should be substituted with milk that is available.
Remember that children will cry, become stubborn and be extremely uncomfortable. How to stop breastfeeding can be quite a worrisome and tiring experience for the child as well. Please have some patience as the process of weaning will take about 7-10 days before both you and the baby are comfortable with it.
