Sooner or later parting with breastfeeding is necessary to each kid. And if aged up to 6 months the mother's milk is the best and balanced food for any child, then the various diet is necessary for the grown-up kids. How to disaccustom the baby to breastfeeding?
First of all, it is necessary to choose time correctly. The World Health Organization recommends to continue breastfeeding up to 2 years, and is farther at the request of mother.
It is important that mom understood that it is time to disaccustom, and made the decision independently, but not under pressure of friends or relatives. If there are doubts, then it is better to continue this study till that time when regrets recede. You remember, the mood of mom is always given to the kid, and it will be much more difficult to disaccustom him if mother herself is not sure of expediency of this decision. Our grandmothers advised not to disaccustom the child in warm season when the probability of viral infections is high.
If you feed the child already long time, then any diseases to it are not terrible, and you can begin process of excommunication from a breast at any convenient time. It is desirable that process of breaking from breastfeeding was gradual. Sharp excommunication is harmful also to health of mother, and for mentality of the kid — it can be very big stress and even a psychological trauma. Allocate for excommunication process several months before appearance at work, or the first campaign of the child in a garden.
It is important that at first the child had no strong stressful factors, such as moving, mom's entry into work and others. During breaking from a breast try to avoid traditional situations at which the kid asked a breast earlier. For example, if you always fed him sitting on a favourite chair, try to avoid it now, at least until as the child will forget this ritual. Be engaged in leisure of the child. In summertime it is better to spend more time on the street where and there is a lot of all interesting. Houses need to be borrowed constantly the kid that it did not have time for boredom.
It is desirable not to give the child to relatives for the period of breaking. Despite all complexity of a situation, it is necessary to be left for the kid support and a support, even without breastfeeding. Think, earlier he solved all problems at a breast, now help to solve him together with you, just replace a breast with caress.