Weaning has the greatest impact on the baby, because the baby's living habits have been changed, so you should pay special attention to diet and rest at this time. It is best to choose to wean your baby after he can add complementary food, that is, he must wait at least 4-6 months.
For babies who are exclusively breastfed, they can squeeze the milk into the bottle and feed it to the baby one month before preparing for weaning, so that the baby can gradually adapt to using the bottle. After the baby gets used to the bottle, then change the breast milk to formula milk one by one: reduce the breast milk first and add the formula milk once. After the baby gets used to it, reduce breast milk. Until the baby only eats 1-2 meals of breast milk a day, and then enters the final weaning stage. During the weaning process, the mother must be avoided. Don’t let the baby see the mother when he drinks milk, let alone let him be in the mother’s arms, because in this way, he will definitely take the initiative to look for the nipples, which will make the weaning preparations fail.
During the weaning process, it is best not to add new auxiliary food varieties, and gradually replace breast milk with formula or milk. Breast milk is easy to digest, so if you change formula milk, your baby is likely to be unacceptable. During weaning, your baby is most likely to experience indigestion and diarrhea. This requires mothers to prepare in advance. The weaning of breastfeeding babies should be carried out step by step, first transitioning to mixed feeding, so that the baby's stomach and intestines can adapt to it, then gradually transitioning to artificial feeding, and finally completely weaning.
A mixed feeding and artificial feeding baby will be more smooth than a breastfeeding baby. The specific preparation method is the same as breastfeeding. Generally speaking, if you add complementary food to your baby on time, the baby can successfully complete the transition from milk to food.
Before preparing to wean, you should consciously change your baby's breastfeeding habits. For example, if the baby gets up in the morning and has to finish breastfeeding before going to bed, then the mother can get up earlier than the baby, so that the baby cannot drink milk directly in the bed; let the baby go outdoors to play at noon, and go home to sleep when he is tired, try to keep the baby from being in a situation where he wants to drink breastfeeding. If the baby has the habit of drinking breast milk before going to bed at night, then he can also stop breastfeeding at night, and the father or other family members will coax the baby to bed every night, and the mother will avoid it for a while.
