Breastfeeding is the ideal food for babies up to six months of age, and later accompanied by other foods up to two years or more. However, sometimes there are difficulties that prevent the baby from breastfeeding exclusively, suckling directly from the breast and/or stopping breast milk: premature or very low birth weight babies, maternal admission, abnormalities of the baby that require surgery or income, need for separation for other reasons or due to maternal desire to wean.
Weaning is the process by which breastfeeding is stopped. We know that breast milk is the ideal food for newborns and infants up to six months of life; subsequently, it is recommended to keep it together with other foods for up to two years or more whenever the mother and the baby want it.
The WHO recommends exclusively breastfeeding our baby for the first six months of life and later accompanied by other foods until two years or more, whenever the mother and baby wish.
Breastfeeding has lights and shadows. It is wonderful, but there are hard times. And weaning can be one of them. If we let the baby decide, it is rare that he decides to wean before the age of two, especially if he has exclusively breastfed for six months and then on demand.
Breast milk is one of the best gifts we can give our children at the beginning of their lives. But in addition to feeding them, breastfeeding is an act of love and warmth, which helps us to foster the bond with them. And when the time comes to say goodbye, it can become a very emotional event.
Breast milk is the best food that we can exclusively give to our baby during their first months of life, and it continues to provide benefits for the entire time they receive it. But as in many life experiences, each woman experiences breastfeeding differently. For some it is easy, for others not so much.
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