Some women may decide to stop breastfeeding, immediately trying to replace it with bottle feeding. Many children can easily deal with such transition and don’t express any dissatisfaction. Others moms prefer to gradually reduce the number of breastfeeding. On the one hand, this will enable the child to be weaned step-by-step, but on the other hand, it may be more difficult for the baby. If a baby reacts favorably to the replacement of the first feeding and then of the second one day or two later, it means that he or she got used to gradual weaning.
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Easy Tricks to Wean Baby from Breastfeeding
May 3rd, 2012 — Breastfeeding
Baby Feeding Basics to Avoid Allergy Risks
April 25th, 2012 — Solid Feeding
Allergy is something that makes all parents scary. Providing the best for their little ones they face unexpected troubles – food allergy. But the trouble actually can be easily avoided. Real serious disease occur among 6% of children. The rest can solve the problem or just wait a bit until it disappears with time.
Storage Conditions and Solutions for the Breast Milk
March 31st, 2012 — Breastfeeding
Every mom sooner or later faces a problem of storing the breast milk as sometime she needs to leave a house or has an excess of milk and wants to make reserves for the future. How to make the things go right with minimal losses of milk?
How to Increase Breast Milk Production?
March 4th, 2012 — Breastfeeding
The matter is that a breastfeeding woman needs more calories to have breast milk. Otherwise the milk supply can be too low or the milk can even disappear. To be more exact when a woman breastfeeds she needs 500 calories per day more than her pregnancy intake. As a rule, calories stored by the body during pregnancy plus additional 500 calories are enough to make milk. However, along with additional calories the breastfeeding woman needs more protein and calcium-rich foods.
Alcohol and Smoking Effects on Breastfeeding
February 25th, 2012 — Breastfeeding
It’s needless to say smoking and alcohol affect breastfeeding and health of a baby as breastfeeding helps the baby fight illnesses. If the woman smokes it affects quality of her milk and has a negative effect on the baby’s health. Moreover, cigarette smoke has a bad effect on the baby’s lungs. The more cigarettes the woman smokes, the greater health risk for her and her baby is.