Two years of breastfeeding. You and your baby have already mastered the art of breastfeeding; your son clings to his breast in any position and you are already able to suckle him anywhere. You have not noticed for almost a year lactation crisis, in which your baby gets overwhelmed while nursing, where the teat works 24 hours to calm the infant who seems to be more and more distressed. And suddenly, from one day to the next, you are in a new crisis. And one of the most important.
At two years of age, a child experiences the same developmental changes as an adolescent. They don't understand "no," and "wait a minute" is something that frustrates them more than ever. And we all thought "now that the situation was so calm, if she was even beginning to be more independent ..." That is the origin of this late lactation crisis. The feeling of independence causes the child a lot of insecurity.
Since they were born they had a warm and loving refuge in their tit. During this transition that they experience in their way of seeing the world, the tit is still the best refuge they know. They are not going to suck all day out of vice or because they are pregnant; They go to find their place of peace that, apart from providing them with food, gives them tranquility. In addition, it helps them regain their confidence in themselves.
And it is that the path of growth is full of emotional bumps. Finding out about the changes our children's breastfeeding is going through is key to success. If you continue to breastfeed your baby after two hard years in which everyone has told you how little your milk is feeding, how hungry your baby is and how bad he is getting, congratulations. But above all calm, the two-year crisis will end and everything will return to normal until the natural weaning of the child begins.