The right way to wean your 7 month old baby

Weaning has always been a headache for many mothers. When simple breast milk or milk powder is no longer sufficient nutrition, the baby needs to be weaned. But when your baby suddenly leaves his favorite food, he will inevitably cry and not cooperate.

So what should mom do? How do I wean a 7-month-old baby?

1.Gradually reduce the frequency of breastfeeding. Normally, babies will breastfeed multiple times a day, during the day and at night.

Weaning should be done by slowly reducing the number of breastfeedings starting during the day. Note that it must be gradual and not completely weaning your baby off breast milk at once. While reducing breast milk, it is also necessary to increase complementary food, or milk, so that the baby feels full.

2.Gradual. Weaning should be natural, you can often change the way to make some complementary food, increase the baby's interest in complementary food or milk, etc.

When the baby eats complementary food, we should also pay attention to the appropriate encouragement of the baby. Complementary foods should pay attention to the principle of from thin to thick, from less to more.

3.Pay attention to your baby's physical health. There are babies who develop later and have less good physical fitness. Mothers need to know whether the baby's physical condition meets the requirements of weaning before weaning.

4.Do it when your baby feels safe. In addition, the environment in which the baby lives, such as moving, traveling, or the mother has not been around, will make the baby feel insecure.

At these times, it is recommended not to start weaning first, so as not to affect the baby's emotional instability and weaning.

5.Be decisive in the process. In the process of weaning, mothers should not wean intermittently because of soft-heartedness, which will make the baby's mood more unstable and affect future weaning.

I think weaning at seven months seems to be a bit early, at least one year old before weaning, is good for the baby's development, weaning time should be selected spring and autumn, winter may be cold, weaning is not good for children.

Before I wanted to wean my son, I chose a milk powder close to breast milk for him, that is, Shengyuan, and when the baby got used to drinking milk powder, I completely weaned his breast milk.

Generally, at about seven months, parents will consider starting to wean their children, but there are many babies who rely on breast milk, especially at night, and must be milked at night to sleep, which will make many parents have a headache about weaning at night, so I will teach you how to wean at night.

How to wean a seven-month-old baby from night milk.

1. Ensure that the milk volume is sufficient.

Before your baby goes to bed, first take her to pee, and then, make sure that the amount of milk is sufficient. In this way, the baby will not wake up in the middle of the night because of holding urine or insufficient milk, and habitually look for milk to drink. The so-called guarantee amount is sufficient, according to the child's usual eating habits, not because the baby is weaned, but also to give him more milk than usual, which will cause indigestion when the baby sleeps at night.

Or stomach bloating.

I can't sleep well. 2. Adjust the feeding time at night.

Do not breastfeed immediately after dinner. It is best to dim the indoor lights before the baby goes to bed, and then feed the baby milk. When drinking milk, you may feel sleepy due to exercise and satisfaction, and after rinsing your mouth, you will generally fall asleep, and you can sleep until dawn.

It doesn't matter if you wake up in the middle of the night to drink milk, you can't wean the night milk right away, and you have to let the child have a transition stage.

3. Gently pat and soothe.

Sometimes babies wake up in the middle of the night, not necessarily because they are hungry, but because of their biological clock.

Form a habit of waking up to drink milk, at this time parents can take the baby when sleepy, give her enough comfort, gently pat the back, and soon the baby will fall asleep again, and can even sleep until six or seven o'clock. The quality of children's sleep is improved, and adults will be much more relaxed.

4. Play more with your children.

After dinner, you should concentrate on playing with your children and don't blindly look at your phone. It is a good choice for you to do appropriate exercise with your child, or to listen to nursery rhymes and nursery rhymes, and read a book. However, it is not easy to go to bed too early, and it is not advisable to exercise vigorously.

In this way, it is easy for the child to fall asleep because of excitement.

Babies should not be weaned if:

The baby has never been added complementary food, the digestive tract has no ability to adapt to the food after weaning, if the use of sudden weaning will bring disadvantages to the baby, cause digestive disorders, malnutrition, affect the growth and development of the child.

Babies should not be stripped of milk during illness. Both mothers and babies change their bodies at weaning. When a child is sick, weaning will worsen the disease or cause malnutrition.

Weaning is not advisable in the hot summer. In summer, the weather is hot, and children's digestive ability is poor, and a little carelessness can cause digestive tract diseases, so they should not be weaned.

Infant milk should not be too strong.

When some parents make milk powder for their babies, they always think that if it is thicker, it will be more nutritious, but in fact, the idea is contrary to the effect. The reason is that milk powder contains more sodium ions, if the content of milk powder is too high, the sodium ions will also increase, these sodium ions are not properly diluted, and are absorbed by the baby in large quantities, which will increase the sodium content in the serum, and the pressure on the blood vessels will be enhanced, resulting in high blood pressure in the baby, which can easily cause the baby's brain capillaries to rupture or hemorrhage, and even cramps, coma and disturbance. Therefore, children should not drink too strong milk.

The dilution ratio of boiled water for milk powder is preferably 4 1, that is, 4 parts of wide pat boiling water to 1 part of milk powder.