Dr. Komarovsky about the correct and rapid cessation of lactation

More recently, the newly-made mother was nervous that breast milk is not enough or it is of the wrong quality. But somehow everything went smoothly, the baby has grown up and is already actively eating cereals, meat puree, dairy products. He had his first teeth, and his mother intuitively understands that it is time to stop breastfeeding.

How to do it painlessly for the child and his own body is a serious question. In addition, in the women's forums on the Internet, where a woman will surely crawl over searching for answers, she is always ready to be intimidated and intimidated to such an extent that she will change her mind completely to wean the toddler off the breast. Famous children's doctor Yevgeny Komarovsky tells how and when to stop breastfeeding and what to do with lactation.

Breast milk is a very nutritious and valuable product for a newborn, and no mixture, even the most modern, expensive and adapted, can compete with the very nature of the food provided for the infant. Yevgeny Komarovsky claims that after the appearance of teeth, a person no longer has a biological need in breast milk. When he can already eat more dense food, his body begins to demand a qualitatively different composition of food than his mother’s breast can offer. This occurs after the child is one year old.

In deciding whether to stop feeding, a mother should remember that she is not only a walking milk factory, but also a member of society, a social being, and she needs to perform not only her biological functions (to feed the baby), but also to deal with her social functions (go to people , work, communicate, learn).

In the end, she can get sick, and she will need medications that are incompatible with breastfeeding, such a probability also can not be taken into account.

If supporters of breastfeeding for up to three years want to forget about the social functions of the mother and her personal desires, that is their business. Harmful breast milk will not cause either a two-year-old child or a five-year-old. But the great benefits - too.

Komarovsky believes that the mother, who honestly fed the crumbs up to a year, can be calm - she has fulfilled the biological debt in full. It is time to think about how to wean a baby from breastfeeding after a year.

It is difficult to start, Komarovsky warns. A baby who, at 12-14 months old, is well aware of what delicious mother's titia is, is unlikely to want to give it away without a fight. He will fight, as the last time, yell, roll tantrums, demand.

In such conditions, not everyone will survive, even a very neurostable mom. At some point, she will give a weak spot, allow you to suck a little, and everything will have to start over again. It is impossible to stop milk lactation, while the child irritates the receptors on the nipple.

In order to proceed to the action on weaning children from the breast, you need to gain determination and understand that the dependence on sucking the breast of the baby is no longer physiological, but psychological, and he will live quite normally without breast milk. Mom and grandmother, as well as other relatives living in the same living space, need to stock up on valerian.

It is best to separate mother and child for several days, says Yevgeny Komarovsky. Send mother to the country or to the sanatorium for 5-7 days will be enough for the child to learn to do without breast milk. After my mom's return, there can be proclivities of the offspring to the selected pleasure, but they should be resolutely stopped. Of course, the child will be unhappy, and may cry. But the mother should not change the decisions, otherwise the process of weaning will stretch for months and years and will give all the household a lot of moral suffering.

If exhortations don't help, try spoiling the taste of milk. For this, according to Komarovsky, it is enough to eat garlic or to smear nipple with mustard.

If a child receives a breast with such a “product” several times, the next time he will think well whether to ask for it again or do without it. Although this method does not affect everyone: some babies really like mom's “garlic” milk, and the pungent smell doesn’t bother them at all.

According to Yevgeny Komarovsky, information about the refusal in breastfeeding for a child is the strongest stress and trauma for life, has no basis. All this is speculation far from medicine and even the psychology of mothers-breastfeeding women under five. Stress will be minimal and very quickly forgotten by the baby, if the mother does everything correctly. This means - quickly, decisively and irrevocably.

You can finish feeding at any time of the year, says Yevgeny Komarovsky. Winter on the street or summer, does not matter. But it is important whether the child is ready for change. There are several situations in which it is better to postpone the excommunication:

• Disease baby. If he feels bad, it’s not a good idea to make things worse.
• Painful teething. If the process is in full swing, it is better to give a familiar chest and not to injure the already inflamed gums. In addition, breast milk contains a large amount of antibodies to various infections, and it has antibacterial properties.
• A change of scenery. If you yourself have to move in with a child or go on vacation in a week or two, you should not begin excommunication. It is better to leave it for later, when the child gets into a familiar environment.

After recovery, after a few days, you can proceed to what was intended.

A long time ago, people believed that it was impossible to breastfeed during the hot season, and at that time it was quite reasonable - after the cancellation of breast milk, the incidence almost always increased. intestinal infections. Now is the 21st century, and the elementary observance of hygienic norms makes it possible to stop feeding without problems when mother needs it.

Stopping the production of breast milk is quite difficult, since its psychomotor mechanism is very stable. But nothing is impossible, says Yevgeny Olegovich, and if the first stage - weaning - took place, and mom withstood a persistent orphan for several days, then it's time to make sure that there is as little milk as possible.

To do this, the doctor recommends to drink less fluid. This does not mean that mom needs to dry herself to death. Just follow the drinking regime as it was at the time of the formation of lactation and its maintenance is no longer necessary. In no case do not need to express milk, even if it happened that the child fell ill a few days after the start of the action on weaning. Straining starts the mechanism of development.

If the aforementioned measures of special relief do not bring a woman, you can additionally drag her breasts with a sheet. Today, Russian women are available and other ways that are considered more civilized around the world. They are based on taking drugs that block the ability to lactate at the hormonal and chemical levels.

Such means, suppressing the production of prolactin, include, in particular, "Bromkriptin" or "Dostinex." But it is best to start taking pills after consulting a doctor. Helps and sage decoction, and linden flowers, which mother can brew and drink in small portions.

Yevgeny Komarovsky believes that in the process of weaning a baby, a rare mother cannot make any mistakes. The most common misconception is that in a baby without her mother's breast, immunity will begin to fall. Until half a year, the crumbs of my mother's innate immunity, then his immune system is sent to an independent “voyage”, by the year the defense is getting stronger, and then it will only gain momentum, colliding with microbes and viruses, and developing antibodies against them.

Some moms start prophylactically instead of breastfeeding. of milk to give antiviral drugs, immunomodulators and immunostimulants. There is no need for this, says Yevgeny Komarovsky, especially since the effectiveness of these drugs has not been clinically proven. And the extra "chemistry" is completely useless to the child.

There are mothers who, canceling breastfeeding, transfer the child to whole cow or goat milk. Komarovsky believes that it is better to give the baby to drink an adapted mixture with a label from 12 months. It is saturated with trace elements, vitamins, minerals, and is devoid of fairly allergenic cow protein.

You will learn more about how to wean a baby from breastfeeding in the following video.