5 Weaning Tips
March 4, 2008 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Breastfeeding
These are various tips from readers, friends and my own experiences. I hope someone can help these helpful and remember if you have a tip on how to wean your breastfed child please let us know in the comments.
- We knew ahead of time when we wanted to wean so we started cutting down little by little as the time got closer. By the date, he was off.
- Try skipping either morning or nights.
- Just cutting down one feeding a day didn’t work for me, I had to do it even slower. I did one feeding a week until I was finally down to one night and then off.
- I put my breastmilk in a sippy cup and she went straight to it. All you need is to pump your milk between feedings and fill up the cup.
- Cold turkey. That’s how I did it, but you’ll have to stick to your guns.
For myself I’ve done the cutting back, as well as the waiting for him/her to take themselves off but the best for me was when the doctor gave me the pill to dry it up. The pill from my understandings is no longer available. How did you do it?
