The best way for babies to feed is breast milk, which plays an important role in providing nutrition to the baby and enhancing the baby's resistance and immunity.
When conditions permit, mothers extend the duration of breastfeeding as long as possible.
But now moms are working women, and it's hard to juggle work and baby when they return to work after maternity leave.
In order to adapt to the post as soon as possible, Xiaoling, a colleague of the company, only gave the child breast milk for 4 months and weaned it, so that the baby began to feed the milk powder, which is also the helpless move of the general mother, helpless to wean the baby as soon as possible, and some babies can only enjoy half a year's breast milk.
Some mothers are willing to breastfeed their babies for longer, even to kindergarten.
When is the best time for my baby to wean?
The baby began to add complementary foods around six months, pure breast milk was gradually replaced by complementary foods, with the development of the baby's gastrointestinal and chewing ability, breast milk can no longer meet their nutritional intake needs.
Breast milk will gradually decrease, and mothers will choose to wean between the baby's age of one and a half years. But according to the study, the best time for a baby to wean should be around two years old.
The lactoferrin contained in breast milk can improve the baby's resistance and increase immunity, so if the breast milk lasts longer, the baby will be healthier and less sick.
If the mother's physical condition and external conditions allow, it is best to extend the time of breastfeeding appropriately, so that the baby's physical fitness will be better.
The baby is weaned at about two years old, the firmness of the teeth and the digestion ability of the stomach and intestines are enhanced, and the weaning and addition of a normal diet will be more normal and natural.
What are the benefits of breastfeeding?
Scientific experts recommend breastfeeding, there is a certain scientific basis, after research has proved that breastfeeding has certain benefits for the baby and the mother.
The benefits for your baby are:
1. Strengthen your baby's resistance and immunity. The nutritional components in breast milk are irreplaceable milk powder, such as lactoferrin and other components will strengthen the baby's resistance, so that the baby can reduce the infection of the external flora, the baby eats more breast milk, will make the body better, less sick.
2. Increase your baby's sense of security. Babies have just come to this world, very lack of safety awareness, sucking breast milk will reduce their anxiety and uneasiness, so that the uneasy mood is alleviated.
Because the taste of the mother was the most familiar to them, sucking breast milk soothed the panic.
3. Enhance your baby's intellectual development and emotional cognition. The sucking action helps to drive the development of the baby's cerebral cortex, stimulates the innervation of the brain nerves, and there are many types of fat in breast milk, which will also promote the rapid development of the baby's brain and improve their IQ.
The mother transmits the feelings between the mother and the baby through breast milk, which is conducive to the establishment of the parent-child relationship and makes the mother and son more intimate.
The benefits for Mom are:
1. It is conducive to the rapid recovery of Bao Ma. Insisting on breastfeeding can quickly stimulate the burning and consumption of fat, and play a multiplier effect on the repair of postpartum body shape.
2. It is conducive to the protection of the recovery of the uterus. Breastfeeding will lead to uterine contractions, so that the uterus after childbirth can return to its original state as soon as possible, keeping the uterus young, thereby reducing the chance of uterine diseases.
For the healthy growth of the baby, mothers should not wean prematurely, give the child a certain sucking time, appropriately extend the feeding, so that they have sufficient nutrition and psychological protection.
Therefore, it is recommended here that the best time to wean is around the age of two.