What is the best age to stop nursing a baby?
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The time is right to wean when one or both of you is ready - and since you're ready, it's time. Whichever feeding is most important to your baby should be the last to go; my daughter has been weaned to bedtime-only feedings for months now. If you think your daughter will give up her morning nursing more easily, try and distract her with something else in the mornings (a yummy new solid for breakfast, maybe - bananas and yogurts are favorites here.)
Once the morning nursing is a thing of the past, work on bedtime. My husband had to step in here and start putting our daughter to bed - I'd nurse her, then have him come in to put her down. Once she was comfortable with that, I started skipping nights...then nursing every third night. She just turned two last week and we're down to every four nights, and will be finished entirely very soon.
Basically, customize your 'plan of attack' to what you think will work for yourself and for your family. Be willing to offer lots of cuddle time to make up for the missed nursing sessions, and be sympathetic to your daughter but stick to your guns that 'there's no milk right now', etc.
Good luck!
Other Answers:
2 years i think
6months. my gurl started puting formula in his rotation. 1breast, next feeding formula. they usually dont need all the stuff that it offers after awhile. cuz b4 8mo hes was good to eat soups and didnt need all that good stuff formula offers. The best age to stop nursing is the age when you and your child are comfortable with it. If you feel strongly that you want to stop nursing now, even though your daughter doesn't want to, check out the weaning section on www.kellymom.com. I will tell you, however, that the last couple of feedings are the most difficult to wean and that 1 year olds are notoriously difficult to wean because they understand cause and effect (I cry, Mommy nurses me) but can't really be reasoned with. There are lots of good books on weaning out there -- check out the library. Sorry I can't give you any good tips; we haven't made it to the weaning stage yet.
There's a couple of factors to consider. It depends on the baby. It depends on why your baby nurses. My little girl is 13 months old and she does nurse to eat, she eats table food. She does it for comfort and it is familiar. Has your baby stared solid foods yet? That is a major factor because if you have not your baby is thinking your breast is the only food source.
What I did was I made a feeding schedule for my little one where I feed her baby food then, just to make sure she was full, I would top her off with breast milk since it still has all the nutrient that she needs. Then after she got the hang of eating the baby food and then enjoyed the taste of my cooking she stopped looking at my breast to feed just to comfort and there's no problem with that. But if you really want your little one to stop you just have to be firm about. Tell him or her no and offer your little one a sippy with juice, expressed milk, or if one year of age whole milk. I hope this helps.
PS. Today is the first(and hopefully not the last) day that she did not want to nurse.
The person who said 2 years is crazy. When a baby takes formula, you stop at 1...you SHOULD do the same with a breastfed baby.
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