The World Health Organisation recommends that babies be breastfed exclusively for up to six months, then breastfed along with complementary foods for up to two years and beyond.
Some women stop breastfeeding relatively early, either by choice or because they cannot physically continue. Some stop because they "want their own body back" or want a break from breastfeeding before becoming pregnant with another child. Others choose to practice "extended" or "full term" breastfeeding, continuing to feed their children past the age of one, and in some cases even up to the age of five.
Many people in Western countries find breastfeeding of older children, especially those old enough to walk and talk, a bit confronting. Some people worry that children who are breastfed as toddlers and preschoolers will face social stigma from their peers and adults. Others say that mothers who continue to breastfeed beyond six months or a year are doing it solely for their own benefit rather than the child's. Then there is the old adage that "if they're old enough to ask for it they're too old", though strangely this is not applied to other foods like, say, broccoli.
With so much conflicting advice around and everybody having their own opinions on the subject, how do you know when it is time for you to stop breastfeeding?
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#Motherhood The minute their first two teeth come through. Chewing raw veggies and a big steak is good for their teeth and they need to get ready for their second teeth and using them. Breast is best for a human without teeth.
Actually, the first set of teeth are called "milk teeth" for a reason. Traditionally children would wean when their milk teeth or baby teeth started to fall out and be replaced by their adult teeth, at which point they would no longer be able to latch correctly.
You can most definitely feed a child with teeth. Women do it every day (myself included). Babies can be born with teeth or start to get them really early, at just a few months old. That doesn't mean their bodies are suddenly ready for solid food or to do without milk. Even once they are ready for solids they can continue to have breast milk as well.