For health of the kid long feeding – only the benefit. However it causes strong psychological dependence in the child of which to get rid happens rather difficult.
Advantage of feeding about one year
After half a year, breast milk stops being the only food for the child, various feedings up and juice are entered into his diet. The kid matures, the number of applyings to a breast decreases, and concentration of antibodies in breast milk increases. It means that children who are fed with mother's milk more than 6 months get strong immune support. Very great if breastfeeding lasts about one year, at this age the kid does the first attempts to go, so, is most subject to various diseases.
Advantage of feeding up to two-three years
On the third year of a lactation, milk does not lose the useful properties and is a valuable source of fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals. It contains special enzymes which help to acquire food and also biologically active agents and factors of growth of fabrics which are not neither in adult food, nor in the adapted baby food.
The kids receiving breast milk more than three years show good results in five years at tests of speech development.
Advantage of feeding up to four years
It would seem, the four-year-old child already does not need breast milk at all. However it not so. It contains lactoferrin which stops growth of the main responsible for developing of caries - a streptococcal bacterium. Moreover, by means of breast milk, tooth enamel is saturated with phosphorus and calcium thanks to what teeth become stronger. The four-year-old kid running to a mother's breast after each children's quarrel looks "mother's darling" in comparison with those who cope with emotions. It is actually more probable that the first, not lost ahead of time touches with mom, will quicker learn to overcome a stress. Such child feels the reliable back, is more open for the world and more confidently in it acts.
According to the New Zealand scientists, the longer the kid is nursed, the he adapts to society at six-eight-year age better.
Harm of feeding up to four years
For health of the kid long feeding – only the benefit. However it is the best of all to separate from a breast in two-three years, it is frequent because of failed psychological separation of the kid from mother who simply does not wish "to release" it, the child becomes dependent that can harmful affect further his development. Such kid is often subject to sneers from other children, closed, constraining. And the woman herself will feel inconveniently if rather adult child on the street writhes in hysterics and to demand some mother's milk. It should be noted that the longer the woman will postpone the moment of end of a lactation, the it will be heavier to adapt to the child to it.