Booby Moon: A weaning book for toddlers. Creating magic, wonder and ritual for a more joyful experience for all (Booby Moon Collection) Paperback – 12 July 2021

I love this book, so much. I've been reading it every night for the last month with my almost 2 year old, and tonight we had our final feed, then took our 'magic balloon' outside to send back up to the booby moon.I've been so anxious about weaning but the experience we've had with reading the book, and then releasing our balloon tonight, has been so incredibly positive and beautiful.The story itself is lovely, we just skipped the page about the birthday party as it didn't fit our plans. My little boy has been saying "magic fly" and "bye bye booby milk" for the last couple of weeks, and tonight he was an absolute star, he let go of the balloon himself, waved it off and was so pleased with the whole adventure.One thing to note is that if you're planning to wean in the middle of summer, you will need to adjust bedtime a bit to make sure a) it's actually dark and b) the moon is actually visibly in the sky. Turns out it's not up there every night, as I'd always assumed! But with a bit of forward planning it worked out well.I had also debated about releasing a balloon at all (because of the environmental factor) but decided that one balloon is not unreasonable, and it was important for us that the experience matched the pictures in the book.I'll be recommending this book to any friends looking to wean their toddlers in the future.

I love this book so much, as does my 2.5 year old who has just weaned. It was super helpful when we night weaned last year too as it has a bit about booby being asleep at night and cuddling back to sleep instead of having milk. The ritual of letting go of the balloon was lovely - my daughter got really excited when she saw it. She had decided it was time to send the milk back up to Booby Moon and was excited to let the balloon go, and even though she was sad when we let it go, re-reading the book was a really helpful way to remind her why we’re doing it and help her process what had happened. This was a few nights ago and tonight she said she missed boob milk and wanted to read Booby Moon again. There is also a really helpful bit at the back with advice for parents on weaning. I highly recommend this book to anyone thinking about weaning or night weaning their toddler.

I cannot recommend this book enough! It turned something I was dreading in to a lovely memory making experience for me and my little one.Building up to my daughter’s 2nd birthday I had decided I wanted to wean her. She was still waking through the night to feed and had a very strong association with feeding and sleep. I was very apprehensive about weaning her!I started reading booby moon 3 weeks prior to when we intended to stop. She loved the story and asked to read it multiple times a day (something she’s never done before) before long she was joining in with the story and finishing off the sentences. She started talking about booby moon throughout the day and I would repeat the sentiment that after her birthday booby milk would fly away to the moon.I started by night weaning and told her booby milk is asleep and won’t wake up. She was quite upset by this for about 7 days then would quietly accept a cup of milk instead.By the 3 weeks she had a very strong understanding of what was going to happen. She said, “after my birthday booby milk fly away in sky.”We followed the books suggestions and we had last booby and then we found the moon through the window and instead of releasing a balloon we blew a handful of glitter in to the sky. I bought her a colour changing moon lamp and told her it was a present from booby moon. She absolutely loves it.She has not once asked for booby milk since. She regularly talks about booby moon and talks about blowing booby milk in to the sky. But she has not been upset or even asked for booby milk at all since! Last night (about 2 weeks after weaning) she said, “little babies have booby milk tonight.” A Version of the line from the book.Since weaning she’s started sleeping through the night which is absolutely unheard of for her having only had about 5 nights where she’s slept through combined in her 2 years prior!I was very emotional about weaning and booby moon is an emotional read. But it not only helped my daughter to emotionally prepare for the next step but myself! By the time we were ready to say bye bye to booby milk I felt ready too.An amazing book and I cannot rate it high enough! Thank you thank you thank you!

Was overly keen on some of the wording, however each to their own. I changed the parts I didn't like. This is such a lovely book. The pic of the little girl smiling melts my heart every time. I can honestly say this has changed our lives. My co sleeper is now being put to sleep with no crying and will wait till I allow her to have boob. I will adapt wording of the story again when it's time to say goodbye forever but for now baby just has boob when the sun comes up and although she still wakes looking for it in the night settling her is a dream. Thanks so much

I wanted to stop feeding when our little girl reached 2 but it felt she was so dependent on Mummy’s milky, particularly for sleep, that we’d never move her away without causing lots of upset. I’d heard about this book and thought it was worth a go. We read it most days for 2 months leading up to her second birthday, making sure to liken her to the older children on the pages and talking about it through the day too. We are now 3 days passed her birthday with no milky and she’s only asked twice and been satisfied that Mummy’s milky magic has returned to the moon. Thank you so much!