Completion of breastfeeding - is no less important than its establishment. After all, my mother did not simply cease to feed the baby, her body begins to function in a new way, and the restructuring is not always easy
The World Health Organization recommends feeding child breasts up to 2-3 years. It is associated with many advantages for mother and baby: strong immunity crumbs formation of trust to his mother, a close adaptation to the world, calm and deep sleep mother and baby in the arms of a friend other progress-somatic nervous system, the establishment of the digestive tract, antiallergic program for bowel and preparation for a meeting with the new bacteria, which surround us everywhere.
Benefits of breastfeeding: Weigh the pros and cons, before stop GW
No one has come up with a drink and the mixture was changed to 100% breast milk for your baby. Breast milk is the mother is unique for each individual child in its composition.
Breastfeeding makes mom really my mother, as a woman gives her child the best that it can give. Breastfeeding - the best prevention of breast cancer. And the more you feed your beloved child, the more and better the thyroid and mammary glands in the future. Before finish breastfeeding, weigh all the "pros" and "cons" to vote: what risks you go, that you have a priority right now.
There comes a time when the mother has to go to work, the child goes to kindergarten, but feeding was too an obsession for the baby, he does not know any other way to sleep, rather than under the breast, but it may well take book. It is also the cause of weaning may be the health of most moms, when suddenly she needed an operation shown antibiotics that are incompatible with breastfeeding, and so on.
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Top 7 most important tips on weaning
1. Weaned gradually better. With 2 years you may well replace daytime applying baby to the breast other drinks and activities, for example, give him a compote dried fruits, seasonal fruits, infusion of rose hips, diluted cow's or goat's milk, special children's milk, kefir, yogurt, other. Leave feeding at night, applying a night and day before going to bed. This way you will decrease the amount of breast milk and weaning will not be so painful.
2. Replace breastfeeding with the aim of calming the child's other methods and practices. The child began to cry, and you will immediately give him the breast? After 2 years try to distract the baby in a different way: sit down on his haunches, hug, talk, sing song, nursery rhyme, perhaps chide stone, chair, car, of which, perhaps, stumbled your beloved pipsqueak. Gradually maturing child will understand - the breast - not the only way to calm down. Also, with the pastime, for example, in the park.
Child 2-2,5 years played in the sandbox and then runs to her mother, "Give sisyu!", But he does not always want to drink it. The baby is also important to change the type of activity, but it is not ready yet to figure out how you can do it yourself. Give your child kompotik, vodichku, read the booklet, feed the birds. Toddler calm down, switch to a different type of activity and understand that the world is not confined to the mother's breast, but there are more interesting and entertaining for the things of man.
After completion of breastfeeding your baby will be a little or a completely different person - he matures, a new stage of its independent life. And you, as a mom, it must accept and understand.
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3. You've decided weaned: know, you can not return the milk again! Leave baby with dad, grandmother, nanny, warn the kid (that he knew my mother did not disappear from his life) and away for 3-4 days, until the milk does not come to naught. Yes, the allocation of the breasts may continue, but next to the child you milk ejection will be large, as the hormone of love and affection - prolactin - promotes the production of milk. And so far you'll think less of a child, a little abstracted, especially if he stays with someone who knows all (or almost all about the care of your baby). Call, talk with the baby remotely, but not often, otherwise the filling will be delayed breast milk.
4. Consult your gynecologist, but rather with a consultant on breastfeeding. The specialist will tell you how best to complete the hepatitis B, will recommend medication if necessary. In no case Do not take your own hormones, as well as other medicines that may have irreversible and often negative consequences for your health.
5. According to the modern approach to the end of breast-feeding chest bandage diaper, scarf, towel does not need to make iodized net too! Be sure to put a bra that does not strongly compresses your chest. Drink the liquid in small sips, drink less (1-2-3 gulp), but do not rule out the liquid completely, otherwise the affected kidney. No alcohol, hot drinks like tea, coffee, latte, high-calorie milk, beer... The water decoction of sage, stewed fruit, dried fruits. Eat fractional, eliminate fat, nuts, at night, try not to eat at all, or drink low-fat yogurt, orange juice. The food can seem tasteless, sweet, bitter, salty. It rebuilds your body, forgive him this tune for the best. Difficulties are temporary.
6. If you experience pain, tingling in the chest - 2, 3 day. Wet pads, put them in the freezer for 15-25 minutes, and then attach to the breast. If unbearable to endure for the night a little podtsedite milk - but only just a little. After all, as you know, demand creates proposal. You both would give the child milk and body again began to produce more and more, that is, to express breast does not have to, otherwise it will be filled with even greater force and you do not need it. You wind up, is not it? Instead pads on the chest, which needs to be changed every hour, you can take advantage of a broken cabbage leaves also make a small lymph drainage massage from the base of the breast to the nipple. But not much wrinkle chest, not only will it hurt - so you will again bring up the tide and dripping milk.
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7. Sleep 1-2-3 days will not be easy, especially if you are abruptly stopped breastfeeding. On the belly is certainly not possible. Imagine your body as dairy, tuned in to the production of a quantity of milk, and you plant "closed", and now the important task - to readjust psychologically and physically. Distracted from thinking about the crumbs, read books, do some household stuff finally have some free time - go ahead, to the hairdresser, manicure, pedicure, shopping, cinema, theater, etc.
Important!It became unbearable to endure the pain, fever, chills, nausea, dizziness, - urgently call a consultant on breastfeeding association "Milk River" rather than grandmother, neighbor or mother (their views are outdated) - qualified specialist will help you along manage.
Do not think that the milk will disappear in a week, discharge may continue for a month or more, but they are scarce, yet not disappear completely. Good luck!
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