There will probably come a time where we need to wean our baby off breast milk. The best age when weaning breastfeeding our babies is probably about 2 years old. But we should try to at least breastfeed for a year. The task of weaning baby is easier for working mothers,
because our baby is used to drinking from the bottle while we work. I am against taking dairy products, so I give my children oat milk. Since all my children were breastfeed past one year old, drinking oat milk is not a problem, they will not develop any food allergies.
When I decide to wean my child off breastfeeding, I would introduce the oat milk to them by mixing a small proportion of the oat milk into the breast milk. Since the oat milk contains all the natural ingredients, there is no issue in mixing them with the breast milk. It is just like eating oats (with lecithin, flexeed, etc) with the breast milk. I understand that it is probably not advisable to mix formula milk with breast milk, although I have friends that have done that without facing any problems.
I shall continue this series on stop breastfeeding tomorrow.
* Weaning babies *
