While I decided to focus primarily on older children in this post, many women on Twitter chimed in that they are nursing their kids to age two as well, including: Reiza at Stepping Off the Spaceship, Summer at Wired for Noise, Mom Most Traveled, Annie at PhD in Parenting, Sherri at Recovering Sociopath, and Sara (who was breast -
fed herself until age 4 1/2) at Custom - Made Milk, among others.
What is the benefit of breast
feeding until that age?
They want the strongest army and the smartest population so they mandate breast
feeding until age two.
While I decided to focus primarily on older children in this post, many women on Twitter chimed in that they are nursing their kids to age two as well, including: Reiza at Stepping Off the Spaceship, Summer at Wired for Noise, Mom Most Traveled, Annie at PhD in Parenting, and Sara (who was breast -
fed herself until age 4 1/2) at Custom - Made Milk, among others.
Until the age of 32 to 34 weeks gestational age, most babies are unable to feed by bottle or breast alone, and even when they no longer require total parenteral nutrition or a feeding tube, many require scheduled regular
feedings until the age of 37 weeks gestation age.
La Leche advocates breast
feeding until age 3.
What Grumet, who said she was breast -
fed until the age of 6, didn't expect was the public's immediate, almost visceral reaction.
Her pediatrician concluded that it was more important that the kids get milk than go off their bottles and told Ciervo to keep up the bottle -
feeding until age 3.
Not exact matches
At this
age do you wake to cluster
feed to keep consistent every day or do you follow their lead and if they wake cluster
feed and if not let them sleep
until three hour regular
feed time then follow up with dreamfeed in the 10 pm hour?
For mothers, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants, with a strong chance of having food allergies due to family history, to have exclusive breast -
feeding for six months, use a hypoallergenic formulas when not breast -
feeding, have mother avoid peanuts and tree nuts during lactation, delay introduction of cow's milk
until 12 months, eggs
until 24 months, and peanuts, tree nuts, and fish
until age 3, and to have no maternal dietary restriction during pregnancy.
She recommends new parents to give 1 bottle per day of ebm from 1 month of
age until mother returns to work, to develop and maintain the baby's bottle
feeding skills.
Spoonfed weaning method is the
age - old practice of weaning babies, where you have to crush fruits and vegetables
until it becomes a liquidized, creamy substance called puree, then spoon
feed it to your baby.
As much as you may need that break, if you want to continue to breast
feed, most experts agree to wait
until your baby is about 4 weeks of
age to introduce a bottle.
If we are prepared to accept that a good proportion of babies will not be ready to
feed themselves with solid foods
until they are seven, eight or nine months, then it is perfectly reasonable to allow that there will also be a few who may begin before they reach the «magic»
age of six months.
The WHO and our National Infant
Feeding Policy, both say that babies should not start solids
until 6 months of
age and not before 17 weeks.
However, experts do agree that you should breast
feed your baby
until they are 6 months of
age, if not longer.
But many babies at that gestational
age will need a little tube in their stomach to be
fed until their maturation is such that they can safely coordinate the sucking and the swallowing mechanism.
Instead, stick with
feeding your infant breastmilk and / or formula, and hold off on offering solids
until close to 6 months of
age.
Since I do not recommend
feeding cooked beets to your baby
until the
age of 9 months your baby will be safe from nitrates.
Suzanne: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that infants be
fed breast milk exclusively (which means the baby receives no other source of nourishment) for the first 6 months of life with breastfeeding continuing at least
until 2 years of
age with the appropriate introduction of complementary foods.
Many pediatricians recommend not
feeding highly allergenic foods to a child
until age 1 (cow's milk and citrus fruits), 2 (eggs and wheat) and 3 (peanuts and fish).
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends
feeding your baby only breast milk
until age 6 months, and breast milk plus solid foods from 6 - 12 months and beyond.
If your child is exclusively breast
fed (EBF), you do not need to clean the solids or poop out of the diaper
until they start to eat food, usually at about 6 months of
age.
The AAP recommends that you breastfeed your baby,
feeding only breast milk (directly or expressed)
until 6 months of
age.
Wait
until age 4 or later before
feeding your child whole nuts or pieces of nuts, Kids Health advises.
P.S. I saw an lactation consultant who failed to diagnose my son's poor latch and suck and it wasn't
until he failed to start eating solid food by
age 1 that he was diagnosed with a
feeding disorder.
To Lorraines question about when to
feed a baby water or milk.You can give your baby water whenever you'd like but remember its has no nutrition so you want to make sure you don't substitute it for formula or breast milk.Don't
feed your baby cows milk
until after one year of
age.
I found this statistic startling: 800,000 children's lives would be saved every year because of the benefits of breast milk if they were to be breastfed within an hour of being born, only
fed breast milk for the first 6 months of life and then continued
until they hit the
age of 2.
Remember, breast -
feeding is the optimal way to
feed a newborn and is recommended
until a baby is at least
age 1.
In the US, from 2000 to 2008, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that parents not
feed their babies peanuts
until age 3 years.
A delay of administration
until after the first
feeding at the breast but not later than 6 hours of
age is recommended.
Doctors used to advise parents not to
feed highly allergenic foods, such as peanuts, eggs, and shellfish, to babies before their first birthday or even later —
until age 2 or 3.
Depending on the
age of your child, you may choose to have designated
feeding times at night, so that you aren't simply shutting the door
until morning.
Messy self -
feeding often continues
until age 3.
Breastmilk substitute: any food marketed or used as a partial or total replacement for breastmilk, whether or not suitable for that purpose Exclusive breastfeeding: giving an infant only breastmilk and no other solids or liquids, not even water Replacement
feeding: giving an infant who is not receiving any breastmilk a nutritionally adequate diet
until the
age at which the child can be fully
fed on family foods Transition: a period and process to accustom the infant and mother to new
feeding patterns, after which all breastmilk is replaced with breastmilk substitutes
You can give your baby a spoon at any time, but he probably won't be able to actually start
feeding himself
until at least 10 months of
age... and sometimes much later.
Interventions such as exclusive breastfeeding (which prevents diarrhea), continuation of breastfeeding
until 24 months of
age, and improved complementary
feeding (by way of improved nutrition), along with improved sanitation, are expected to affect mortality and morbidity simultaneously.
In the question there is the statement that «breast milk is not an option for fluid milk» but in the answer there is the statement that «USDA recognizes the many benefits of breast -
feeding and promotes it by allowing reimbursement for these meals
until the child reaches two years of
age.»
Since the infant's immune system is not fully mature
until about 2 years of
age, breast milk provides an advantage that formula -
fed infants do not have.
You also don't want to
feed your baby soy milk, rice milk, almond milk or any other milk alternative
until the
age of two.
You don't want to
feed your baby reduced - fat or fat - free milk because your baby needs the dietary fat for proper growth and development
until the
age of two.
Solid foods should be
fed at about 6 months, and breastfeeding should continue
until the baby is at least 1 year of
age or older.
While mothers
fed infants «strength - producing» meats and cereals in the first year, advice manuals recommended that children not be given fruits and vegetables
until two or three years of
age.
If you assume that a baby is breast -
fed exclusively up
until six months of
age, that baby will consume about 360 micrograms of methyl mercury.
(2014) Directs each local school board to adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the public view to be designated as an area in which any mother who is employed by the local school board or enrolled as a student may take breaks of reasonable length during the school day to express milk to
feed her child
until the child reaches the
age of one.
In some cultures, breast -
feeding continues
until children are
age 6 or 7.
If your baby is at the
age where she wakes early but plays instead of crying, I would leave her there
until it is close to regular
feeding time.
The apparent point of this blog was to shame women into breast
feeding until their children are school
age.
Though you do not want to start
feeding solids to your little one before four months of
age, you also do not want to wait
until after six months of
age.
In the past, pediatricians have cautioned parents not to
feed their babies peanut products
until they've reached three years of
age because they feared their immune systems could not handle an allergic reaction.