What does weaning mean??

Question

im not sure what it means

Answer 1

gradually ....  

Answer 2

weaning means you gradually take the baby off of something. for example, "weaning the baby from the bottle so he/she can use a sippy cup."

Answer 3

When your baby stops nursing and gets all his nutrition from sources other than the breast, he's considered weaned. Although babies are also weaned from the bottle, the term most often refers to when a baby stops breastfeeding.

Weaning, when it's the mother's idea, usually requires a lot of patience, and can take time, depending on your baby or toddler's age and how well and how quickly your child adjusts. The experience is different for everyone.

Weaning is a long goodbye — emotional, sometimes painful, and freeing at the same time. But weaning needn't signal an end to the intimacy you and your child have established through breastfeeding. It just means you have to replace breastfeeding with other nourishment and nurturing activities. If you've often nursed your child for comfort, find other ways to make him feel better. Read a book or sing a song together, or play outside instead.  

Answer 4

Depends on where you are.

In the UK- "Weaning" is typically used in reference to introducing solid foods.

In the US- "Weaning" is the process of taking baby off the breast/bottle permanently.

Answer 5

It means to slowly change to something else, whether its breastmilk to formula, breastmilk to solids, or formula to solids.

Answer 6

To gradually move on from something.