Books to read with toddlers on weaning from bf

[pullonyourjudgypants]

Any suggestions please? I want to start to introduce the idea of weaning, as hoping to stop bf around my Toddlers 2nd bday.

No idea on that one sorry. Milkies in the Morning is a good book on night Weaning if you want to give that a try

We have just bought two: Sally Weans from Night Nursing and Loving Comfort: A Toddler Weaning Story. I got them both from Amazon.

There is a gap in the market for British books on this - both the above are American but they're all I could find and we're in the same position as you (mine is 2.5).

Thank you both! I’d only heard of milkies when the sunshines before, which I guess is similar. However want to wean completely.

Will look up the other two sound good.

Might have to write one !!

Opps it’s nursies when the sunshines !

I had one called 'mamas milk is all gone'!

But it told the story of how mum loves me in other ways now we don't feed, rather than preparing to stop, so I felt it didn't make sense to my little one. It would help more in accepting it post stopping I'd imagine, we've stopped recently and not needed it though.

Yes defo write one!

@ Smelly thanks

How did you stop ? I’ve been cutting out feeds, but it only seems to work for a few days, then DS gets all demanding, maybe to make up for it. He’s grabby, pulling up my top etc. Been trying to do ‘don’t offer, don’t refuse’ He’s 21 months now and is a giant. I’m a SAHM so he’s always with me.

Well I stopped by getting pregnant...bit extreme if not in your plans! My milk dried up and she gave up without complaint. 27 months. But prior to that we were down to only a morning feed unless she was ill or something. I did refuse I suppose before that, tended to distract her or offer warm milk or food instead until it just became normal to say 'remember we only have milk in bed in the morning'. It kind of all happened naturally. It depends how much you feel you want to stop as to how firm you want to be I guess. Or the knocked up option

Good plan.. I don’t mind the knocked out version Think I need to cut him down some more for that to be possible but you never know !

Knocked out or up either !

Haha! Knocked up and knocked out feel the same at times good luck!

I bought ‘everything changes including me’ from Amazon because it had a picture of a big boy on a bike at the front. We’re getting DS a scooter for his 2nd birthday so i’ve been having lots of chats with him about how the ‘boobies’ have almost run out because soon he’ll be a big boy with a scooter, not a baby with boobies.

In the day I can usually distract him with a drink/raisins/ telling him it’s almost time to eat but I’m a bit worried about bedtime!

I think I’ll stick some plasters on to emphasise the broken/‘all gone’ boobs!

@camomila

Is the book any good ? The first review on amazon says it’s not useful for weaning but the rest of the reviews are by the authors friends good.

I did a vision of a little boy going to sleep clutching a scooter It could work.