Weaning Your Older Baby or Toddler – Part Two: Be Careful What You Wish For If you’re like me, you know all the benefits of breastfeeding a toddler—the emotional attachment, the positive health aspects, the reduced risk of allergies, etc. You and your talking nursling may be an anomaly in society, but you don’t care. [...]

Weaning Your Older Baby or Toddler – Part One: How to Tell When Your Baby is Ready to Wean All children wean eventually and at their own pace. How can you tell if your child is ready? First off, realize the weaning process starts when you’ve offered your baby that first spoonful of solid food. [...]

Weaning Your Younger Baby – Part Two: Tips for Mother-Led Weaning Weaning, like walking, is a developmental milestone that all babies eventually accomplish. How soon your baby weans depends on your and your baby’s attitudes toward nursing. photo credit: James Jordan According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), babies should be breastfed for at [...]

Thinking of weaning your baby? How do you know if your baby is ready? Good question. Babies go through stages and sometimes you may think your little one is ready to stop nursing. One of these issues is called a nursing strike. For instance: You have a 9 month old baby who hasn’t shown any [...]

Every baby eventually weans. Some mothers choose to wean their babies at a predetermined time (perhaps at one year of age), or when life circumstances seem to warrant it (such as a new pregnancy). But most of the time, weaning can be a gradual, natural process where a baby or young child grows away from [...]

It is possible that as a new mom, there will be times when you will have to be away from your baby for a short period of time. Perhaps you have to travel on business, or there is a medical procedure that you must have, that will make it impossible for you to breastfeed for [...]