Weaning
The weaning is one of the disturbing stages experienced by both the child and the mother, and at this stage the child has reached the appropriate age to be healed, which advises doctors to have a child of one to two years, and stay away from weaning the child before completing his first year because milk The mother has great benefits on the health of the child he strengthens his immunity.
Weaning is to prevent the child from eating milk from his mother’s breast, which the child has been accustomed to since he began his life in this world, so when we start weaning the child will feel sad because he used to, and also breastfeeding the child was always close to his mother; it gives him a sense of safety and non-fear , When we begin to weaning, the child begins to scream and cry and sometimes may increase its temperature, so it must be gradual, it is one of the most important means to make the child more tolerant of the subject of weaning, and we will present in this article some of the ways weaning.
Ways to wean the baby from breastfeeding
- Getting the baby to drink more milk, give it a bottle every time, and focus on giving it the bottle at times when it was sucking, you should get used to breastfeeding less often.
- Reduce the time to breastfeed If it is twenty minutes, make it ten minutes, even if the child is not satisfied, and the child is fed up with food or milk.
- Bring more games and gifts to distract him from breastfeeding and make his focus in the new games, and must give games to the child at intervals whenever he wanted to suckle give him a new game.
- Diversifying the child’s meals and making them in the form of a baby dish, such as a cartoon arrangement or a simple drawing, makes the child more willing to eat.
- Going out to play places, to where children are often and leaving the child to play and play either with toys or with children, distracts the child and forgets breastfeeding, preferring to go out with the times he has been breastfeeding.
- Using some natural ways to breastfeed the child, such as placing some drops of lemon on the nipple, and when he starts breastfeeding, it will be disturbed and away from him, and may not return to him completely, but this method used once and if not succeed, do not repeat it.
- Do not forget that the most important thing in weaning is to get yourself back to patience, for some children need to bother and effort.