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Many mothers find the arranging of breastfeeding schedule as one of the most confusing things in nursing. Lots of people give different recommendations and advices, but none of them really helps much. From all what I have found, there are only some recommendations which can become useful for moms:

1. Some mothers think that the best demonstration of baby’s hunger is when he cries. But it is wrong. Crying is the late sign of hunger and it shows that the baby has been demanding food for a rather long period already. So, arranging your breastfeeding schedule, do not wait until your baby cries, start nursing him when he shows the first signs, such as: opening his mouth, showing sucking movements etc.
2. Do not try to make some certain breastfeeding schedule for your baby. This process is very individual and only a child knows how much and how often he has to eat. The hours which can seem nice for your breastfeeding, can appear to be completely inappropriate for your child. Remember: the breastfeeding schedule should be comfortable not so much for you as for your baby.

Notwithstanding the great use of breastfeeding still there is time when the breastfeeding should be stopped. But what about ladies who breastfeed their babies almost till going to school? Here are some thoughts about breast feeding toddler.

As the modern mothers are very busy and breastfeed rather unwillingly such a thing as breast feeding toddler is very rare nowadays. But still it happens that some mothers keep breastfeeding till their baby is six years old. Do you think it is odd? But in fact it’s not.

From the things which I have found, modern pediatricians recommend very long breast feeding. They say that the minimum age breast feeding should be 2.5 years. The experienced pediatricians support breast feeding toddler very much. Lots of people think that breast feeding toddler is just baby’s caprice and stop breastfeeding whenever they think it is time. But the doctors say that the reason of such a long desire of a baby to get breast feeding (till six years old, for example) is not a caprice but the real necessity of child’s health and emotional state and other factors.

Sometimes breast feeding toddler happens because a mother and a baby like breastfeeding very much and do not want to stop it. But why it should be stopped, if it brings happiness to both of them?