Undoubtedly, breast milk — ideal food for the baby. But the kid grows and the time when the child needs to be disaccustomed to breastfeeding comes. For the little person it is a special difficult stage therefore it is important to try to do everything possible that it was painless both for the kid, and for the feeding mom.
Instruction
1. Be guided by a physical and emotional condition of the child. All kids are individual therefore accurate terms of breaking of children from a breast do not exist. If your child is capable to calm down, fall asleep without applying to a breast, it is easy to distract it from chest feedings a game, then it is possible to consider that the best time of refusal of breastfeeding came.
2. Gradually you enter a feeding up. Pediatricians advise from half a year to replace one day feeding with a breast with usual food, then replace morning and evening feeding. Thus step by step acquaint the child with new products and completely refuse to the kid from day breastfeeding. That it passed imperceptibly for the child, replace the place of reception of food, do not change clothes in the face of the kid.
3. Begin then disaccustom the child to night feedings. Here many mothers meet great difficulties because the lack of a breast becomes frequent for the kid a big stress at night. He can begin to cry, shout and to calm him without breast extremely difficult. At first distract the child water, juice, kefir. Offering the kid a small bottle with milk instead of a breast, mom has to be nearby. The child needs to feel breath of mother, to hear beating of her heart. The maternal love and attention will help the kid to endure refusal of a breast quietly.
4. Be ready that excommunication of the child from a breast will become perhaps, serious test and for mom. Between it and the child there is a certain border, close communication falls. Therefore it is so important to spend during this difficult period to mom and the kid much time together. Caress the child more often, do him light massage, pat him on a back, on a back, you tell gentle words, pay more attention.
5. Once you refuse such methods of breaking from a breast, greasing of nipples mustard, departure of mom for some time if you want this process to take place without possible complications for your kid.