Maternal milk, certainly, the best food for the baby. But if about half a year it is the only food for the kid, after a year the mother's milk becomes rather pleasant and useful addition to usual food. By one and a half-two years many mothers make the decision on the breastfeeding termination.
After a year when breastfeeding the emotional component is of great importance, the child at a breast not so much eats how many he communicates with mom, calms down, falls asleep. And before making the decision on excommunication of the kid from a breast, it is necessary to choose favorable time.
When to disaccustom the child to a breast
Ideal time for the breastfeeding termination – fall. The abundance of vegetables and fruit will give to the kid all necessary vitamins. And weather suitable, not cold and not hot. The winter does not approach because of risk of catarrhal diseases, the extreme heat is possible in the summer.
It is impossible to stop feeding during a disease, it is necessary to wait few weeks after recovery to allow the kid to get stronger.
Also it is impossible to disaccustom the kid to a breast just before receipt in kindergarten. First, it will cause imposing of one stress on other, secondly, children's collective - it is a source of viral diseases and since breast milk protects the kid from diseases, the termination of feeding along with receipt in a garden can provoke frequent sick-lists.
Ways of the termination of breastfeeding
Long time the most widespread way was a leaving of mom the house for 2-3 day or the child was taken away by grandmothers and grandfathers. The way, perhaps, also was effective, but present a situation the child's eyes: for it and so there are huge shocks, the habitual lifestyle, and here changes also the loved one left it. The kid will remember such stress for a long time. Mom needs to have patience, it is necessary to stop breastfeeding gradually, perhaps not one week. The mother's caress and attention will be the most important for the kid at this moment, he has to understand that even if mom does not give a breast any more, it does not mean that the kid will spend less time in mother's embraces. After one and a half-two years the child can also throw a breast. If it did not occur, it is possible to explain to him that such big children already drink a milk from a mug, to give it some new privileges – the fact that it is impossible for kids, and to children is more senior it is already possible. It is necessary to remove feedings gradually, at first it is possible to refuse day, leaving only laying on a dream and night feedings. Then to try to create a new pleasant ritual of laying for the child, for example, to include a night lamp with a projector of the star sky, to read the fairy tale for the night or to iron on a back up to falling asleep, replacing with this ritual feeding with a dream. The most difficult is to remove night feedings. If in the afternoon with the kid it is possible to agree, tell him that it already big, at night the child is in more infantile state and simply will not hear you. It is possible to allow it to drink waters from a mug and to shake on hands. Anyway during process of excommunication from a breast it is necessary to pay to the kid more attention, than usually, to embrace him, to kiss, play with it. And then everything will be painless as much as possible.