The feeding mom in process of growth of the kid should resolve the issues connected with completion of breastfeeding. Even experts do not give on them definite answers. That the period of excommunication from a breast passed for the child naturally and without serious consequences, mom has to know whether her kid and she is ready to it physiologically.
When to finish breastfeeding
Now more and more pediatricians recommend physiological excommunication at which process happens naturally, without doing harm to health of mother and child.
Terms of natural end of breastfeeding are individual for each kid. Feeding by a breast can be finished only when both the kid, and mom is ready to it.
About readiness of the kid mom can judge by fading of a sosatelny reflex. The child forgets to be put to a breast in the afternoon when it is busy with games. After a feeding up already not always demands a breast. The number of applyings is reduced to 2 — 3 times a day. The child already not so is in great need in presence of mom. He can even sometimes keep within on a daytime sleep without her. These signs say that it is possible to complete breastfeeding gradually. Usually it occurs when to the kid 2 — 3 years. But the age cannot be a reference point. If your child does not calm down without sucking, often wakes up at night to be put to a breast, cannot fall asleep without having sucked, so he is not ready to excommunication yet. You should not finish feeding with a breast if at the kid still all milk teeth were not cut through, there are signs of an indisposition or manifestation of diathesis. In all these cases the immunity of the child is weakened. During this period the protection which enzymes of maternal milk give, more than ever, is necessary for it. Natural reduction of a lactation testifies to readiness of mom. A breast it is already not so strong to be filled with milk. Breaks in feeding are easily transferred even if they make 12 hours and more. It demonstrates that the organism of mom is ready to stop feeding.
How to finish breastfeeding
If you decided that came it is time to stop feeding, then take care of that it did not become a stress for the kid. It is not necessary to hurry. It is important to do everything gradually, having shown a maximum of care, patience and love. For a start limit the number of feedings during the day. For example, give a breast only when awakening and laying. In process of accustoming, gradually remove morning applyings. It is easier for child to distract from desire to suck in the morning if when awakening mom is not near. Therefore accustom him to independent awakening. You leave more often on affairs that the kid got used to your absence and quietly reacted to it. When the child learns to fall asleep without breast in the afternoon, it is possible to take the following step. Leave only night feedings, the need for them passes at the kid in the last turn. To finish the period of breastfeeding it is most careful and comfortable, wait when the last milk tooth is cut through, the child will quietly fall asleep itself and will not wake up at night.