The best age for weaning: 1 week old Breast milk is the best food for babies. However, as your baby grows and develops, after 4-6 months, the nutrition in breast milk can no longer fully meet the needs of your baby’s growth, so you must add appropriate complementary foods at this time. At the early stage of adding complementary foods, the calories provided by complementary foods account for about 10% of the calories provided by all foods; when babies are 8-9 months old, the calories provided by complementary foods account for half of the calories provided by all foods; and for babies around 1 year old, the calories provided by complementary foods have reached more than 60% of the calories provided by all foods, which is the right condition to wean babies from breast milk. Before weaning, you should add complementary foods. Before weaning, you should add complementary foods. The preparation before weaning should start with practicing eating with a spoon. Try to feed your baby some juice, soup, etc. with a spoon for a week. If the baby’s cheeks and tongue make the jaws follow the movement and the baby can eat smoothly, weaning can be gradually practiced. When weaning according to a weaning recipe, do not force-feed if the baby does not want to eat. Let your baby try to get used to eating other foods. After weaning, the baby’s diet should be crumbly, soft and rotten, fed with nutritious, soft and easily digestible food, and never give the baby spicy things to eat. Milk is an essential food for your baby every day. “A baby under 1 year old may suddenly refuse to eat breast milk without any obvious reason, which is often referred to as a “milk strike”. Babies who “self-wean” are over 1 year old. Mothers should learn to distinguish whether their child is “on strike” or ready to self-wean, and not to make the decision to “wean” so easily. In fact, it is common for babies to go on a “milk withdrawal” after 4 months of age. This is when the baby’s growth rate slows down significantly and the demand for nutrients decreases accordingly. This instinctive reduction in demand for milk is called “physiological anorexia”. It usually lasts for a week or so, and then, with increased exercise and consumption, the appetite improves and milk production returns to normal. “Generally speaking, babies who are really ready to ‘self-wean’ are over 1 year old and have already eaten a lot of solid food. If the baby is ready to wean himself or herself, he or she will have already eaten a lot of solid food. With more than 400 ml of formula per day, the baby’s nutrition can fully meet his or her needs and can be weaned with confidence. Psychologically, weaning should be done slowly and gradually, not just as soon as possible. In the month before you are ready to wean your baby, you can gradually reduce the number of times you feed your baby. For example, if you have fed your baby three times during the day, you can now feed your baby twice and add milk powder; after a day or two, you can feed your baby only once during the day and add milk powder twice; after a few days, you can feed your baby all milk powder during the day and feed yourself at night; after that, you can feed your baby milk powder during the day and one meal before bedtime, and feed yourself at midnight; finally, you can feed your baby all milk powder until you are “ripe for the picking “The last thing you need to do is to feed all the formula until the baby is weaned completely. The “mother and child isolation” weaning mother and child are prone to anxiety “Weaning is not necessary to separate mother and child at all.” Traditionally, the practice of “separating mother and child for weaning” is not advisable, and is likely to not only fail to wean successfully, but also affect the baby’s physical and psychological health. The prolonged separation of mother and child will also make the baby insecure, especially for babies who are more dependent on breast milk, and may produce strong anxiety, reluctance to eat, reluctance to interact with others, irritability, crying, poor sleep, and even loss of weight and illness. Chili water, aventurine hurts the physical and mental health of the baby For the baby, the nipple coated with chili water, aventurine or Huang Lian and other irritants, is simply cruel “torture”. Yellow pepper and chili water are irritating foods that can harm the baby’s oral mucosa. “This is a very good way to get rid of the problem. Don’t blindly take the “quick-acting weaning method” “Some mothers do not drink soup, blindly take the so-called ‘quick-acting weaning method’, even strangling the chest with a towel and sealing the nipples with adhesive tape. ” This is obviously against the physiological rules and can easily cause breast swelling and pain. There are two main methods of returning breast milk, natural and artificial. Generally speaking, those who have been breastfeeding for 10 months to 1 year can use the natural breastfeeding method; while those who have been weaning for less than 10 months due to various diseases or special reasons can use the artificial breastfeeding method, for example, boiling water with raw malt to achieve the effect of breastfeeding. Food for returning milk: malt Malt, sweet and flat in nature. It belongs to the spleen and stomach meridians. It is used to promote the flow of Qi and eliminate food, strengthen the spleen and open the stomach, reduce milk and distension. It is used for food stagnation, bloating and pain in the abdomen, spleen deficiency, milk stagnation, breast swelling and pain, and weaning of women. Raw malt is used to strengthen the spleen and stomach, to remove Qi from the liver, and is used for spleen deficiency and less food, and for breast stagnation; fried malt is good at moving Qi and reducing food, and is mostly used for women’s weaning; jiao malt is good at eliminating food and stagnation, and is used for food stagnation and distention and pain in the abdomen. Many mothers are confused when weaning their babies, how can they easily return to the breast? There are various methods, but taking the herbal medicine barley malt can be considered the safest and most effective, easy and practical method. The key to the lactation-returning effect of malt is the dosage. Raw malt 10-15 grams, a small dose to open the stomach and liver and lactation, 60-120 grams of large dose to consume gas and disperse blood and return breast milk. Modern research has shown that high doses of malt have a significant effect on inhibiting the peak of prolactin release during the lactating mother’s sleep. The use of malt to return breast milk can be taken either alone or in combination. In general, 60-120 grams of raw malt can be used alone for those who are strong and have a lot of milk, while those who are weak and have little milk need to take a little less, or use fried malt, one dose per day, decoction in water, twice a day. It can also be taken with 60 grams of raw malt and 12 grams of cicada molasses in water; or with 15 grams of raw loquat leaves (hair removed) in water; or with 60 grams of fried malt, 30 grams of hawthorn and 30 grams of Shenqu, decocted as tea, one dose per day. If the mother is weaned from breastfeeding due to physical illness, she should select the medicine according to her specific condition, identify the evidence and cooperate with other drugs to form a compound formula, which can cure the illness and also return the breast milk. If the mother’s illness is deficiency, it can be fried and used in small amounts; if the mother’s illness is actual, it can be used raw and in larger amounts.