How to wean a child from my mother

Wean the baby from breastfeeding. This process is the personification of the close ties between him and the mother, but there comes a time when it needs to become more independent. Decrease the number of feedings gradually, without taking the breast, the child dramatically and irrevocably. The last method may be painful not only for kid but also for you.

Start to feed him from a bottle, not formula, and expressed milk. This will help to smooth the process of weaning from the breast. Perhaps the child will refuse to eat from a bottle, when TA is in the hands of mom. In this case, feed him some time will have to dad or grandma.

Do not attempt to wean baby from the breast by smearing it with mustard or green paint. These tools have long been known to the people, but they can cause the baby a real psychological trauma.

Wean the child from sleep in the parental bed. This issue is later than the end of breastfeeding, but is no less serious. The child may come to you in bed, or crying and screaming, yet you won't let him. Start with daytime sleep. Putting their child to sleep in the daytime, don't go near him and stay upright. Be sure to put it on her, and on his own bed.

Put the child's bed next to his. Will have to start small: your bed will be touching, the child will always be able to feel your touch. Gradually begin to move his crib. First ten, then thirty centimeters, and so on. Put between your sleeping places a barrier (e.g., bedside table or toy box). And after only a few weeks, and possibly months, you will be able to move the bed and the baby in another room.

Organize the sleeping place of the child. If you wean the baby from his bed in three or four years, something would have to lure him into a private space. Pictures on the walls, bedding with cartoon characters, kids night light - all this creates the right atmosphere and help the child settle in the new place.

First, the baby can come to you at night. Tenderly embrace it, and come to bed whenever he returns. Their perseverance will show your child that you are firm in your intentions.

The last step in teaching independence - the ability of the child to remain without mom. The first year of life for a baby should take place under your supervision, he should feel your presence and care. But the second you can begin to gradually move away to a distance. For a start during a game to depart on for three to five minutes and return with a smile on her face, continuing the lesson.

Continue to increase the time of your breakup, but slowly and gradually. In the middle of the road you will be able to leave the baby for an hour or two with grandma or dad, then on the day, and only a year or two calmly will be able to go on vacation with her husband for three to five days. It is important not to rush and tear a child from his mother. The sharpness in this case will cause trauma that will last a lifetime.