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site for moms and dads during
the early years. Find help in having and taking care of a baby and
surviving toddlerhood and preschool. |
Breastfeeding
With Baby-Led Weaning or Child-Led Weaning
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term baby-led weaning and child-led weaning are
interchangable, both meaning that a mother offers
the breast until the baby, toddler or young child,
no longer want to nurse indefinately. While this
may seem like something that could easily turn
into a decade of nursing most babies wean at 3
or 4 years of age. Weaning doesn't happen over
night, and it may seem like it will be a hard
process for you and your baby, however weaning
is a natural thing and occurs when nature intends. |
Breastfeeding
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One
may wonder how to practice child-led weaning. It is
simple really, in the early days, weeks and months of
a baby's life a mother nurses on demand, breastfeeding
her baby when ever they ask for it. When a baby is given
solid foods, likely for taste around 7-9 months and
mini meals around 15 months, the weaning process has
already begun. The baby begins to ask less and less
to breastfeed out of hunger or thirst, on top of hunger
a baby begins to find comfort in other things other
than to suckle at their mother's breast. As your baby's
nursing decreases so will your milk supply, in some
situations your toddler may wean because you have become
pregnant and your milk either changes to a taste that
does not please them or drys up, they may wean but then
return to the breast after the baby is born and your
milk supply as returned. |
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