It has been a while vacuum since my last post, I had been quite busy supported my wife on weaning our lovely daughter, that’s why I didn’t post any for last few days. Weaning is a transition process for a baby who has been breast milking by their mother to not having breast milking. Weaning is recommended on when baby’s age is between 1 year or 2 year, because at that age, nutrition on mom’s breast milk is reduced so baby just get the joy of sucking their mom nipple while they still need other nutrition from other source which normally would be rejected by the baby because the expect to have breast milk. This is why weaning is important.

It took about 3 days for actual weaning process, and I will tell you, it was hard enough for both me and my wife. However, some people on the neighborhood said my baby weaning process was easier than most of weaning process they ever had. Some of sharing from me that hopefully could be useful for  other who want to wean their baby are as follow:

Be actively communicate with baby prior actual weaning process
A sudden cut off on baby breast milking would be hard, as baby already enjoy their breast milking process. It not just how to they would eat/drink but also a process where they get in touch with their mother and felt warm because of it. That is why, prior to wean the baby, be actively communicate with baby to find alternative nutrition source like drink milk from the glass, eat fruit or other foods. Trick them on how to do so, make them comfortable and enjoying new process of getting foods.

Be discipline
Mother and baby who having breast milking process normally will have strong emotion connection. During weaning process, baby normally will always find for their mother nipples and when they couldn’t find it, they will cry loudly and at this time, mother should be discipline to be no mercy for the baby, having it none at all or forever baby won’t forget their breast milking process. It is for baby’s own good anyway

Father role
Role of father is also important to support his wife and baby’s weaning process, When baby is asking for breast milking, and mom couldn’t strong enough to become discipline to avoid their baby. Father should take a role, take the baby, joy them with any way, sing a lullaby, play with them, watch baby’s movie on DVD or other that can make baby enjoy and forget that they have breast milking process.

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