My Milk Will Go, Our Love Will Grow: A Book for Weaning Paperback – Illustrated, January 28, 2020

Thankful for this simple yet profound resource. Wonderful. I’ll update about how it goes when we wean. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ 💝

I’ve been exclusively breastfeeding for two years and got this book for gentle weaning. I wanted to start with night time and then move to day weaning. This book is so special. I read it during our final nursing session of the day for a week with my toddler. The book features a conversation between a toddler and the mama about weaning and it shares all of the concerns that a little one may be going through. It empathetically connects to both mama and baby’s emotions about the weaning process. My little one was successfully weaned during the night without any major problem. I’d like to thank it was thanks to this book. For all mamas who want to assure your little one that even when “ milk goes, your love will grow,” get this amazing book! Thank you to the author and artist for this work!

Beautifully written and perfect for us.

This book is so sweet. It has really helped with weening. It normalizes all the big feelings that come with this change and reassures little ones. I don’t read the story exactly as it’s written. I change the wording a bit to suit us. The illustrations are quite nice. He requests this book often!

We started reading this book a few weeks before fully weaning my 22 month old. It really helped her understand what was happening. She would ask to read her “milk book” and now, when she would usually be asking for milk (eg after nap) she says “milk book”, “all done” and we go have a snack instead.

Since introducing this book, my nearly 2 yr old requests the “Mama Milkies” book nearly every night. It’s an excellent way to introduce the concept of weaning to an older nursing child. Also helped that the mom and child resemble what we look like so she seems to connect with it in that way. Would be lovely if it could be made with children and mothers of all races and hair colors so more children can see themselves in its message ❤️

Purchased to read with my toddler who I am in the process of weaning. I purchased this book and another for this purpose and this is not the favorite. The story doesn’t flow well as it’s written, it goes back and forth between the mother and child’s voice with only context to help determine who’s speaking. I add “baby says” or “mama says” when reading aloud. Also the pictures aren’t as polished as you see in most kids books but really it’s the colors. They’re on the dull/ gray side and my son isn’t excited to read it. I really like the sentiment and how this gives great respect to the child’s perspective on the topic but think this book could use a good rewrite to make it less clunky to read aloud and fresh pictures with bright colors.

I am a lactation consultant and have breastfed my own child well into toddlerhood. I wish this book was around when I was weaning because I often lacked the words to explain it to my daughter. I recommend this book to clients as a wonderful tool to help them with the weaning process. Weaning can be a difficult time for a child and also for the mama, even if she wants to wean. It brings up so many emotions as this is the end of a journey both mother and child have been on since birth. I love the rhyme which always appeals to children and how it explains to the child that this does not mean the love of their mama will go away despite the milk going away. The tips for the mama at the end are especially helpful since I feel like weaning isn't discussed much in our society. Great tool to help a family who is weaning their child!