The Moz Weaning Plan

As sure as the sun rises in the east, the time has come for Moses to begin weaning. Really, the process started back when he was 6 months of age, with the introduction of solid foods. Weaning normally lasts about 2 years, when an infant's nutrition is entirely from the family menu (no breast milk or supplement formula). But at this point, the specific actions are to phase out breastfeeding and diversify his food profile.

The plan then is to supplement his nutrition with baby formula (we use Similac) and introduce more solid foods, sometimes letting him eat from our plates (not talking mastication here). He is no longer actively nursing anyway (more conversant with bottle feeding), and his mother has stopped pumping because of a naturally dwindling supply. There is, however, about 3 weeks worth of breast milk in refrigeration, and that will be it for him.

Enter the Baby Brezza Formula Pro, our main tool for this supplementation stage. In less than 10 seconds, you can have a bottle of warm consistent formula ready to use. We don't have to prepare his night-time bottle before we go to sleep anymore -- it can instead be done on demand whenever he needs it. Which is a good thing, because sometimes we don't need to: these days, he's been sleeping almost throughout the night (down at 7pm, up at 5am or so). The plan is to reduce the supplementation the more he eats regular food, perhaps in the next 7 months.

The original plan, discussed before he was born, was to breastfeed him about a year. Obviously nature has its own mind, and we must adapt. It's a poignant milestone, I think.