What to do if your child cries when weaning? What are the secrets to weaning?

When children are weaned, they often cry. At this time, parents must choose a better method that can not only ensure successful weaning, but also ensure the child's nutrition and prevent the child from crying. It is necessary to choose a better weaning time and gradually add complementary foods to allow the child's stomach to adapt better. Scientific weaning methods are also very important.

Tip 1: Choose the best time

Usually, babies have gradually adapted to foods other than breast milk when they are 10 to 12 months old. In addition, the babies have grown several incisors, the digestive enzymes in the stomach are increasing, and the muscles of the intestinal wall are more mature. This is the best time to wean babies. If weaning is not done in time, the later the time of weaning, the stronger the baby's attachment to the mother will be, resulting in the baby only eating breast milk and refusing to eat porridge, rice and other weaning foods.

Tip 2: Choose the best season

Choose a more comfortable season for weaning, such as late spring or autumn. At this time, changes in lifestyle and habits will have less impact on the baby's health. If the weather is hot, the baby will already feel uncomfortable, and weaning will make him cry loudly, and he may also vomit or have diarrhea due to gastrointestinal inability to adapt to the food; cold weather will make the baby's sleep restless and easily cause upper respiratory tract infection. If your baby is weaned at this age, it is best to postpone the weaning time.

Tip 3: Be mentally prepared for weaning

Although mothers will feel relieved after their babies are weaned, they may feel a sense of loss because they have lost this way of intimate communication with their babies. Therefore, mothers should think like this from the first day they feed their babies: one day the baby will not need me anymore because he is healthy and has entered a new stage of growth.

For babies, it is important to add weaning food according to their age starting from 4 months, so that they know that there are many delicious foods besides milk. In this way, when the baby reaches 10 to 12 months, not only will the chewing ability be fully exercised, but also the habit of eating with spoons, cups, bowls, plates and other utensils will be formed, and the baby will be able to adapt to the eating method mainly based on weaning food.

Tip 4: Adopt scientific weaning methods

Starting from 10 months, reduce one milk meal a day for your baby and increase the amount of weaning food accordingly. After about a week, if the mother feels that her breasts are not too swollen and the baby's digestion and absorption are also good, she can reduce one meal of milk and increase the amount of weaning food to gradually wean the baby. To reduce the amount of milk, it is best to first reduce the daytime feedings, because there are many things that attract the baby during the day and he will not pay special attention to his mother. But in the early morning and evening, the baby will be very attached to the mother and need to get comfort from breastfeeding. After weaning the baby off during the day, gradually stop feeding at night until you are completely weaned.