Breast feeding
After a nine-month gestation period, and after painful labor, the child goes out to life and begins with the first moments of his birth to receive full care from the parents, especially the mother. The mother’s milk is the first food that the child receives is the best food for him for the following reasons:
- Contains essential and essential nutrients needed by the baby in the early months of its growth.
- Fast digestion does not cause intestinal problems when compared to other types of milk.
- Contains immunoglobulins that prevent the child from contracting certain diseases, especially in the first period of birth.
- More safety for the child as it does not need to prepare and sterilize and is characterized by a constant temperature suitable for the child.
- The presence of sufficient water in the milk of the mother and this protects the child from drought and thirst.
After the first four months of the child’s milk, mother’s milk alone is not enough to meet the child’s food needs, so the food begins to feed the child to get all the nutrients the body needs. This phase is called partial weaning, Dietary meals replace breastfeeding meals, helping to make the child relish and accept the food and gradually start giving up breastfeeding.
The child’s attachment to his mother’s breast is normal, but after the child reaches the age of two years, he must be dead. He does not benefit from his mother’s milk and does not give him any nutritional benefit, while continuing breastfeeding for two years deprives the child of the meals he should take instead of breastfeeding. Depriving him of the necessary nutrients for him. After the age of two years, the mother begins the phase of weaning, the stage of the abandonment of the child from the milk of the mother and rely entirely on the intake of food needs of food.
Methods of weaning
It is not correct to deprive the child of breast milk in a sudden and unintentional way. The mother should be aware of the child’s psychological state resulting from his illness so she should follow the following:
* Start the introduction of the child on food since the fourth month and the replacement of meals time after time place of feeding meals.
- Taking care to keep the child in a state of satiety so that the child does not remember the breast of his mother to ask for breastfeeding.
- Take the child’s attention at this stage from the mother by trying to draw his attention to the things around him and ensure that all the requirements that make your child comfortable at all times.
- Our grandmothers resorted to weaning the child to put a substance called the time on the breast before breastfeeding until the child has tasted the substance and quit breastfeeding completely, but the use of such herbs proved harmful to the health of the child so it is better not to use.