The relationship grown involving mother and baby through breast feeding is a powerful emotional attachment. Psychologically, both the mother as well as infant can experience some separation anxiety during weaning if it's pushed or done too fast. When thinking of weaning your child, it's best to think of it as a slow and gradual procedure, rather than an abrupt and speedy event.

Weaning, much like any other event in the life of your child, will come at different times for everyone. Your baby is an individual, and in the same way your individual child will learn to sit up, roll over, and crawl at different stages than every other child, so will they experience the baby weaning process. Remember, your baby's digestive and motor skills will not be developed enough prior to six months to handle solid foods.

A lot of resources recommend breast feeding your child until twelve months of age. Don't be concerned if you do not make it this far as many children self wean around the ages of 9-12 months. If your child is rejecting the breast milk, then it is time. The one factor you must avoid when attempting to wean your newborn baby is hastening or forcing the process before your son or daughter is ready.

Do your best to discover the signs that your child is ready to wean. They should become, disinterested in breast feeding and in many cases start reaching for foods and trying to put them in their mouths. When this begins to occur, you'll realize it is time to start the weaning process.

As soon as you begin to introduce additional foods, or even formula to your babies diet, you've begun weaning your baby. This doesn't imply you will need to quit breast feeding all together. This merely means the slow and gradual process has begun. It may take weeks or perhaps months, so be patient, do it little by little and with love. Natures strong and loving bond through mother and child will survive it, and so will you.