Best way to ween your baby off breastfeeding?

Well, first keep in mind you don't have to wean and if you are weaning before the age of 1 you need to wean onto formula as cow's milk is undigestible by infants. It can cause some major health problems. How to wean|Weaning is a slow process.

If you try to do it quickly you'll not only hurt yourself (engorgement is no fun) but you will shock your baby's digestive system and end up with a gassy and likely constipated and unhappy baby. So start slow. Start by pumping breast milk and weaning your baby from breast feeding itself.

This gets your baby used to how to bottle feed|bottle feeding. Always hold your baby while you bottle feed. Try to make the bottle experience as close to breast feeding as possible.

Once your baby has adjusted to the bottle slowly begin mixing formula into the bottles. Overtime decrease the breast milk and increase the formula. Remember only to pump as much breast milk as you need.

Eventually, you will no longer be mixing breast milk in at all. Another method is to replace one breast feeding a week with a bottle feeding. I however had better luck with the above method.

Here's a guide on weaning a baby on to cow's milk if your baby is over the age one 1. associatedcontent.com/article/2257195/tr....

Weaning a baby from breastfeeding is never easy esp. If the child is under 1 year old yet. The mother may find it hard to do it esp.

If she does not prepare for it and does it abruptly. It will be a traumatic experience for the baby and I really experienced that I postponed weaning my children even though I thought that I really needed to. So in order for you to do it smoothly, you should proceed slowly.

This should be done in order to prevent the baby from experiencing trauma and for you too as a mother to avoid experiencing pain because you will likely experience mastitis worse than if you do it slowly. By doing slowly means eliminating daily breastfeeding session at a time over a period of two weeks perhaps. Offer your baby a substitute for the breast like formula in a bottle esp.

If the baby is under 1 year old. If it’s older than 1 year old then you may introduce him milk in a cup or bottle. You should give extra affection in order to let the baby feel that s/he is still loved.

Keep your baby occupied by doing activities that s/he will enjoy but if s/he wants to nurse no matter how you distract her/him with activities, then nurse her/him in order to comfort her/him. If you are feeling pain with your breast due to mastitis then you should contact your physician for a proper advice. Mothers have different ways of weaning their children so for you @hillston_heights, you should do what you feel can do comfort your baby – you are a mother, you know him/her best.

Just remember that it’s still good to breastfeed the baby up to two years of age. In some countries esp. Here in the Philippines, my aunt was breastfeeding until her 1st grade, lol.

I totally agree with unwirklich and ai-ai! Slowly weaning off the baby as you and the baby are comfortable is really the best. At around 18 month a baby cuts its front teeth and that is the natural time for weaning.

If you have to or want to wean before or after, that is entirely up to you! I also just want to add a milk substitute that doesn't contain cow's milk or packet milk, it's plant based and very, very similar to mother's milk: You need a blender, water, peeled almonds and dried apricots. Blend those ingredients and the quantities vary whether you want to strain out a "milk" or whether you want to spoon feed a sort of smoothie to your baby.

Almonds and apricots have all the vitamins and minerals needed for an infant! And in The School of Natural Healing by Dr. John R. Christopher (amazon.com/School-Natural-Healing-John-C...), I found a passage in there I'd like to share with you.

Quote: "According to historians one of the greatest days in anyone's life during biblical times was the "day of weaning. " On that day, the one being honored was the individual that was once a baby, and now that it had cut its eye and stomach teeth was now a "child"! Family, friends and neighbors were invited to the weaning feast, and who sat at the head of the table?

The new child. This is in many instances the only time the individual ever had a special feast of its own with lots of guests, and it was allowed to be honored by sitting at the head of the feasting table. " Enjoy!

Weaning off breastfeeding can be difficult. It's important to do it gradually so that you don't feel the pain of engorgement. Start giving a bottle once in awhile and increase the number of times you give the bottle.

Eventually you will have weaned off nursing and will be totally on bottles. Source: breastfeeding-issues-and-solutions.com/h....

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