My baby is not willing to stop breastfeeding? Stopping breastfeeding - complete guide

🔴 My child is not willing to stop breastfeeding?

🔹 The best time to stop breastfeeding, once your child is 18 month old.

🔹Lot of mothers struggle with weaning off breastfeeding and continue to breastfeed the baby till 3 year of age. 

❇️ Why do parents struggle with weaning off breastfeeding? 

🔹 Baby cries a lot

🔹 Family members insist to continue 

🔹 Refusal of baby to eat

🔹 Breast engorgement 

❇️ How to stop breastfeeding?

There are two ways of stopping breastfeeding.... 

🔳 Gradually 

🔹 If you had following principles of weaning, it is easier to stop breastfeeding gradually 

🔹 Skip 25% of breastfeeding time for 5 days.

Example: If you are feeding 4 times in a day, skip 1 time. If you are feeding early morning, afternoon, before sleep and midnight, skip afternoon feed. 

🔹 After 5 days, skip 1 more time like midnight feed. It is better to avoid top milk till this time. 

🔹 After 5 days, skip early morning feed & start top milk

🔹 Lastly skip breastfeed before bedtime and start top milk 

In short... Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable 

🔳 Abruptly 

🔹 This technique is useful if your baby is not willing to stop breastfeeding 

🔹 Let the baby cry for a few days. During this period, take care of babies like feeding top milk, diverting attention and spending quality time.

🔹 Make sure that all family members are involved during baby's crying episode.

 In short... The right decisions are always hardest to make. 

❇️ My family insist to continue breastfeeding 

🔹 You can continue breastfeeding till 2 year of age 

🔹 During this period, try to convince your family members.

 In short... Just keep trying, it's all you can do

❇️ Breast engorgement

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🔹 Commonly occurs in early period of baby's life and stopping of breastfeeding 

🔹 If breastfeeding is stop in spite of good milk production than breast get full , becomes hard and painful 

🔹 Engorgement is usually temporary - eventually mother stop producing breast milk in 7 to 10 days

🔹 How to ease engorgement 

▪️ Fitting bra that doesn't restrict breast

▪️ Hot fomentation 

▪️Always consult Dr for complications or any other cause and medicine

▪️ Don't restart breastfeeding 

 In short... If you want best result, follow instructions along with medicine 

❇️ Refusal to eat

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🔹 As soon as breastfeeding is stopped,  some baby become cranky and refused to eat anything. 

🔹 Wait for 24 to 36 hour and monitor the baby urine and activity. 

🔹 If baby urine and activity is decreasing, it is advisable to restart breastfeeding for 1 month.

 In short... Don't be in hurry or don't be too late to restart breastfeeding

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