Breast feeding
The mother depends entirely on breastfeeding and relying on it, from the birth of her child until the sixth month or more of his age, so that the child benefits and takes the total benefit of his mother’s natural milk, which can not be found in one of the different types of artificial milk, , So that the mother’s milk contains a large range of vitamins and minerals needed by the baby, to strengthen the immune system in his body, and even resist all diseases and viruses that may be infected in the future, the mother begins six months since the baby to enter food gradually, To accept Begum Food and food other than milk, through a method dedicated to the child to taste the food, and it is within the program of food also integrated, so that the mother decides before giving her child to help to eat by reducing the amount and times of breast milk from her breasts, until the process of weaning in a gradual form And is not surprising, and replace it with foods that complement the benefits of natural milk intake, is the ideal age and conventional to weaning the baby, is a year and a half, until the child is two full years, or sometimes a little more; because after that period becomes mother’s milk is useless .
Ways to wean the baby from breastfeeding
- At the beginning of the child’s entry in the sixth month, try feeding the child the first meal, so that the program is given as a meal for the day and for a month, consisting of boiled vegetables only, and breast feeding during the day.
- Then add a cup of natural juice with the meal, whether vegetables or soft fruit, while continuing to breastfeed from the mother.
- Diversification of meals should be done between the seventh and the ninth month, while continuing to breastfeed naturally, but by regulating the feeds, by making them once at night, one breast at noon and so on.
- When the child reaches the ninth month, we are supposed to give the baby three meals a day, plus the mother’s natural milk, at least twice a day.
- The baby stays on these three meals until he reaches the year, and the mother can give him formula milk once, but preferably a substitute for one meal.
- The child must be fully satisfied, with continuous breastfeeding until breastfeeding is not mentioned, until he becomes accustomed to breast feeding, but this requires patience. It takes about three months to get used to it.
- The child can eat home food, and drink it with a cup instead of feeding.