Loving Comfort: A Toddler Weaning Story Paperback – July 9, 2017

This book is SO lovely. It is actually one of my toddler's favorite books! There are other books out there with more beautiful illustrations (in my humble opinion), but this book is beautifully written. I really appreciate the vocabulary and deep sensory care that went into this book. My almost 2 year old now takes deep breaths while she is nursing and then pops off the boob to say, "smelling Mama's scent, just like Jack." 😭😭😭Night weaning was a very emotional experience for my sensitive little one, and I think I bought every children's book on the market about gentle weaning. This one fast became the favorite and she would take big shakey breaths while I was reading it to her - it REALLY helped her process.An adorable bonus is she now tells her stuffies to "come and have loving comfort" when they are "sad." ♥️♥️Basically I just love this book so much.

Purchased this book to introduce my toddler to the process of weaning. I purchased two picture books on the topic and this was the clear favorite. The story is well written and introduces weaning in a non-threatening manner. It’s very validating for his feelings and normalizes this experience. The pictures are great, colorful and good illustrations of the nursing journey. We both love the image of baby Jack side lying nursing on the beach.

This was our favorite weaning book that we found for our daughter who is almost 2. She was not interested in giving up nursing. We read her this story and put it into our story rotation. She was intrigued and would ask for it at times. We would talk to her about weaning and refer to “Jack” from the story. It definitely helped in our weaning process.

We got this book because she just wasn’t ready to let go. She LOVES the illustrations and within 3 days she skipped nursing and chose cuddles instead. Even though the pictures were about Jack, the story was about my daughter - I just had to read it with her name and pronouns! Her weaning journey differed a little from Jack’s because we kept the night nursing until the end. It was contextually easy to switch the order in which I read the pages so it fits my daughter’s nursing journey.She has been weaned for over a month now and still regularly asks to read Loving Comfort. It’s good for both of us every time she picks up the book!Con: Typo on one of the last pages. “Mama scent” needs corrected to “Mama’s scent”Suggestion: It would be so cool to be able to customize the name/pronouns. I did get tongue twisted a few times when first reading it to my daughter as her story.

This is such a sweet book. It validates the feelings of the little one who needs to wean, while also helping them understand that the end of nursing doesn’t mean that their mother will stop loving and comforting them. My 3 year old was a nursing addict, and this made things easier — but weaning him was still hard on everyone, because no book can make a nursing addict suddenly ready to stop.As a side benefit, this book helped my husband understand why weaning was so difficult for our son. My husband has always been 100% onboard with breastfeeding and would have supported continuing to breastfeed longer if I had wanted to, but after reading this book, he mentioned that he had never really thought about *why* little ones like nursing so much. He thought it was mostly the flavor, the proximity to the mom, and maybe oral motor instincts, but he didn’t really think about the emotional closeness, the smell of milk, the warmth, the sound of the mom’s heartbeat, etc. I think that helped him understand why weaning was so hard.

I was looking for a book to help explain the weaning process to my 22 month old daughter. Turns out there aren't many childrens books on this topic, at least that I could find. This little soft cover book is perfect! The illustrations are adorable, and the wording is reassuring that "mama will always be there." It gave me ideas as a mom to discuss with my daughter about changes happening. She was very interested in the pictures and seemed to understand the story. I decided the read it with her name everytime it should say "Jack" and she loved hearing a story about herself. Since picking up this book and reading daily for a week we have not had a night waking. Coincidence? Maybe. But either way I'm very pleased with this book and recommend it!

This is a very sweet book and my toddler enjoyed reading it, along with a couple of others during our night weaning process. My issue with the book is that the toddler in the book just gets too busy to nurse, chooses not to ask for it and gradually stops of their own accord. I have heard anecdotes of this happening with some children. However, that was not my experience with either son. My oldest was 2.5 when we weaned, I was 7 months pregnant and not producing milk but he had no intention of stopping. My youngest will be 3 in a few weeks, still nurses before naptime and bedtime and seems to have no intention of stopping anytime soon. My body is telling me it is time to wean my almost 3 year old and I bought this book about 6 months ago hoping to guide my son in this process. While it addresses that kids can be unhappy if they have to wait to nurse, it doesn't really address what it's like when they are told that they can no longer nurse at all. Instead the mom delays when the kid can nurse and eventually the kid just stops asking. That just wasn't my experience with nursing. However, I do think my son got something out of it in the early stages of weaning when I began to set limits about when we would nurse, but I hope it didn't set him up with false expectations of how our nursing journey will end. The message from the author at the beginning and end of the book is sweet and encouraging. Weaning is difficult for mother and baby! But, so far in my experience, it's harder on mom than it is on the babes. It's never as hard as we expect, as long as we prepare the kids. They are so resilient and amazing!