When should you stop breast feeding your baby?

Answer 1

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding until AT LEAST 1 year. The World Health Organization recommends AT LEAST 2 years.

Breastfeeding is NOT sexual abuse. It is feeding a child.

Answer 2

Most major health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a babies life. After that point a mother can start introducing other foods to her child. It is strongly recommended that the child still receive most of its nutrition from its mother's breast milk for the first year of life. Through out most of human history, it has been common for a mother to continue nursing her child through toddler hood. It has only been in the last hundred years and principally only in the western world that this incredible health benefit has become unfashionable. Remember mothers, the health benefits of breastfeeding also extends to you. The longer you nurse the more protected you are from breast cancer and many other aliments.

Answer 3

Breast milk is a healthy food. Our society often frowns on women breastfeeding past 6 months or a year. This is wrong. The natural age for a child to stop breastfeeding of their own accord is around 2 to 7 years old, without being forced to wean prematurely.

Answer 4

The simple truth is that the best way for a mother to nourish her child is by breast feeding. This is an undisputed medical fact. By breast feeding, a mother not only feeds her child also provides immunization and a host of other physical and mental health benefits. These benefits also extend to the mother. The longer a mother nurses her child the more she also benefits. With that said, the question is not weather or not to breast feed but for how long? The American Medical establishment recommends a minimum of six months of exclusive breastfeeding. This recommendation is echoed by worldwide health organizations. However, these recommendations are far short of what is truly best for children and mothers. For thousands of years, it has been the norm that a child is commonly nursed until it is three or four years old. While this might be the historic standard, it is by no means the limit. Many mothers have found a great deal of success in continuing a nursing relationship until their child is even older. And while our world has changed a lot in the last century, what has not changed is the physiology of human beings. So then what is the answer to your question, "How long should a mother nurse her child?" Quite honestly, as long as you possibly can. Don't worry about what society says or what your friends or family might say. Care for you child with the very best you can give. And the gift that keep giving for years and years is breast milk!

Answer 5

Doctors recommend at least six months of breastfeeding, ideally a year. You can stop at any time, but keep in mind that babies under age 1 must drink formula. Breastfeeding is very beneficial for both mother and baby, so giving it your best try is worth it.

Answer 6

Speaking as a mother, when the child is walking and throwing the bottle for fun...it's time. When the child is eating table food but taking a bottle for naps...it's time. When the child is asking for juice and soda, it's time. The bottle is not a pacifier, it's a source of nourishment. Most pediatricians reccommend formula for one year.

Answer 7

Breastfeeding after 7 months is illegal in every state of America except Utah, Neveda, California, New Mexico and Arizona.

Answer 8

If you are a female that is old enough to get pregnant and carry a child, you are old enough to breastfeed! Your body can do amazing things.

Answer 9

Katherine Dettwyler studied nursing extensively and suggests a natural weaning age somewhere between 2.5-7+ years.

http://www.kathydettwyler.org/detwean.html