Sentences with phrase «wean their child because»

There is no specific time frame for how long it takes to wean a child because every situation is different.

Not exact matches

My oldest weaned at 6.5 years (which was gently led by me because I was starting to get negative feelings) and with my youngest I did completely child - led weaning and she decided she was done just a week or so shy of her 7th birthday.

I admire a lot about «European» parenting, but just because most of them wean at a year doesn't mean that's what nature intended, or what's best for the child biologically.

And yet, though we may be looking forward to «child - led weaning» and some well - deserved rest, many of us continue to follow all of these approaches because we believe it is best.

Although you might want to try baby led weaning because it works well for a friend's child, if your baby isn't responding well to it, he or she might end up malnourished because of a lack of the proper food items for development.

Baby - led weaning is the best option for most children because it gives them the freedom to let their parents know when they're ready to stop nursing or drinking from a bottle.

Actually, if you're considering weaning because you've had enough of your boob addicted toddler, saying «No» may just prolong your breastfeeding relationship with your child and make breastfeeding more enjoyable for everyone in the long run.

«The bottom line is they will never duplicate human milk because it is a dynamic substance that changes from birth all the way through weaning to meet the changing needs of the developing child,» she said.

Because of these unanswered questions many mothers choose to wean their children during pregnancy.

And remember: just because your baby is weaning away from breastfeeding or bottle feeding doesn't mean you're losing your bond with your child!

Weaning baby at 9 months can be a fun time, especially because your child is likely to start developing his or her own personal food preferences by now.

i'm sure it will be my choice because children generally don't self - wean until 2 - 7 years old, and i don't intend to nurse that long.

So I am also your host and I am a mom of three and my children are older so I have been through the weaning process for all of them but my oldest is now 14, my daughter is 12 and my youngest — Liam — is 8 and I actually breastfed him for 3 years and the weaning was probably most difficult for him because he was my last one.

I stopped breastfeeding at 11 mths because my son weaned himself - if he had not, we would have kept going with it as I think its much better for the child to decide when to stop.

Because your milk changes for the benefit of your child while you wean, it is better to make weaning a gradual, rather than an abrupt, process.

Our topic at La Leche League of Mt. Lebanon this past week was Full - Term Nursing and Child - Led Weaning (if you know me, you know I cringe at the term «extended nursing» because there's really nothing «extended» about it and I really don't like what that phrase implies).

We just weaned our youngest son off bottles, but this is the sort of product that might make me (a baby - gear junkie) consider having another child just because it's that awesome.

It's simple - most women breastfeed through a pregnancy because they're not ready to wean their older child.

In all these categorizations, however, the bias still leads us away from finding the benefits of breastfeeding / risks of formula because the only «pure» group would be those who followed WHO guidelines and exclusively breastfed on demand for 6 months then continued to nurse for approximately 2 years or more (some children wean before that and they would be biologically normal).

Although I agree that an infant can become dependent on the breast to fall asleep and yes, once I gently weaned my daughter from night time feeds at around 10 months she did sleep for longer stretches but it by no means solved all our sleep «issues» — To say that all healthy infants should be able to STTN at 6 months, is an incredibly discouraging thing to say to moms who then start thinking there is something wrong with their child and in the end let them cry it out because they read articles like this where it worked for one person.

Some women decide to keep breastfeeding during pregnancy, because it was just too hard to wean the nursing child.

So, then you wean then because now you are in a different social environment and the children make decisions and so forth and so if I am a stay - at - home mom or if I am a mom and I decide I am going to breastfeed up until 4 years because that's until like they move on to their next major socialization phase.

You should not stop breastfeeding suddenly because it may take a few weeks to a few months to fully wean your child.

I will not wean my child simply because he breastfeeds at an older age than makes you comfortable.

I think that is why a woman is considered a maineket or nursing mother for purposes of fasting until her child is two, even if she is not nursing, because in theory a weaned child could revert to nursing.

The introduction of solid foods is the beginning of weaning, but just because it's time to add other types of foods to your child's diet, doesn't mean that breastfeeding has to end.

I am breastfeeding my third child, and I will be weaning her in three days because I was just diagnosed with breast cancer.

This will be the next transition for you and one which is MUCH easier than night weaning because the older your child gets, the easier it is for them to understand.

Because the hard truth is this: if we really intend to wean an entire generation of children off school food «carnival fare» (nachos, nuggets, burgers and fries) and introduce them to fresher, healthier entrees, we are, without question, going to lose some kids along the way.

So, what tips can you offer when a child's pediatrician is recommending that mom wean at two years or even earlier than that because they need to switch to cow dairy?

In hunter - gatherer societies, the average age span between children is four years, because the mother doesn't have another baby till she's ready to wean the first.

Because of the recent research showing the benefits of breastfeeding longer, mothers are now encouraged to engage in «child - led weaning,» which means mothers will know from their child's cues when they are ready to wean.

I nurse my children because its instinctive, natural, normal (worldwide average weaning age 4.2 years) we enjoy it, it's calming, comforting, nourishing and a superfood!

Louise Humphrey, an anthropologist and tooth expert at the Natural History Museum in London, agrees, although she says that the early weaning of the Scladina child is «intriguing» because it is more than a year earlier than the nearly 30 months typical of modern human nonindustrial societies.

Because of the extra demands of child rearing — weaning or foraging for extra mouths — Big Sur females were at a disadvantage.

But older children after weaning can have something other than milk because, like, they have teeth, man.