Baby Breast Feeding - Basic Guidelines You Need to Know About Your Baby's Breast Feeding

For your baby, breast feeding is the most important thing at a certain age. Ideally you should not ever have to deny the breast feeding to her when directly asking for it. She is quite incapable of understanding why you are suddenly refusing her, and may feel that you are refusing not just the breast feeding, but closeness too. You should not have to suffer the physical discomfort of overfull breasts, either.



Take it slowly and your baby's breast feeding will usually adapt without problems. If, for example, she now enjoys real food at lunch-time and only sucks cursorily after it, you might decide to offer milk from a cup instead of breast feeding her, and to whiz her straight from her highchair to her buggy for an after-lunch walk by way of distraction.



By the time you get back, it will no longer be a time of day when she is used to nursing and she will probably have forgotten that she did not nurse when it was. On this new regime your breasts will get less stimulation and although you might feel uncomfortably full on the first few occasions, your breasts will adjust and make less milk within two or three days. If you also offer your baby milk from a cup as well as solid food at her other meals, and then let her suck as much as she wants at the end of the meal, she will gradually take less and less when it is breast feeding time. Over a few weeks she will probably reach a point where she is taking only a token few sucks in the morning and a comfort feed at her bedtime. That night-time session will probably be the last your baby will willingly give up, remaining part of your cuddly bedtime ritual for months to come. As long as for your baby, breast feeding is not that important for her to get herself to sleep, your baby may surprise you by abandoning it of her own accord somewhere nearer to a year than 18 months old.



Of course you do not have to leave it to your baby to decide when to give up that last feed. Even if she is perfectly capable of managing without sucking during the day, your baby may not be comfortably ready to do without any at all and may especially miss sucking for comfort at bedtime.



Shirley M. Duran is a mother of two and an author of a variety of related lifestyle issues and topics with which has helped hundreds of mothers become pregnant. For more information on Baby Breast Feeding and not only, it is recommended to visit: http://protectyourbaby.info/



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