Quiet sleep: how to wean from night feeding after a year? Photo: Getty

Up to what age does the baby need night feeding?

The maximum intervals between feeding the childthe first six months of life - 6 hours, and a night sleep, usually takes an average of about 10 hours, so that without feeding at night can not do. If the crumb is artificial, he can wake up for a meal once or twice a night: a mixture of calories of breast milk, and the child does not feel hunger longer. With children on natural feeding, moms can wake up hardly ever hourly. The reason for this is not always hunger in the crumbs: he needs a physical contact with the mother. After 6 months, when the baby receives lure, milk is still his main food, so we do not need to wean from the night feeding. But to reduce them to 1-2 - this is what you need. After a year the ration of crumbs is already wide: the child receives a large amount of adult food, and from the point of view of physiology, the need for night feeding disappears. But from the psychological point of view, everything is not so simple: daytime impressions, lack of maternal attention during the day - all this can affect the child's sleep, and he eats at night not to satisfy hunger, but to calm.

Methods of weaning from night feedings

Before weaning a baby from breastfeeding, it is worthconsult a pediatrician: is the baby's weight sufficient to deprive him of food at night? Mothers who want to keep lactation longer should remember that it is nighttime breastfeeding that stimulates the production of prolactin (the hormone "milk"). You can choose one of the possible methods of weaning. 1. Radical: End night snacks abruptly, endure baby screams. After a few nights, the baby will understand that it is pointless to wake up, and gradually his sleep will return to normal. Some mothers use the advice of women of the Soviet generation: send the child to his grandmother for a couple of days. The child, isolated from his mother, and still not receiving food at night, experiences stress. However, the method allows you to solve the issue of night feedings once and for all. Conservative: weaning from night food occurs gradually by increasing the interval between feedings, replacing a portion of milk with water or a dummy, motion sickness, etc.

To otuchit the child of night feedings in a year: and whether it is necessary?

Before you finally make a decisionweaning the child from night feeding in a year, it is necessary to think: is it really necessary and to whom? If your mother is not burdened once again to feed the baby, do not listen to the opinions of others. As a rule, it is advised to give up breastfeeding sooner than those mothers who at one time for some reason failed to maintain lactation. A kid, an artificial man, you can not disaccustom from the bottle, and teach yourself to find her in the crib and eat, without disturbing mamu.So time a grown up child will become less and more in need of a mother. Maybe you should not rush things, but enjoy every moment of intimacy with the baby, even to the detriment of ten minutes of your night's sleep? Read more:

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