If you’re looking for some wonderful breastfeeding books for your little one, here’s a list of 6 great books that your child (or children!) will love.
They explain breastfeeding in a most beautiful and easy to understand fashion.
No matter if you’re trying to help siblings understand about breastfeeding your newborn or if you’re looking for books to help your toddler or older child learn about weaning, here’s where to look.
Here are 6 fabulous books about breastfeeding for children:
#1: Mama’s Milk
Celebrating the warm and loving bond between mammal mamas and their babies, this lushly illustrated, lyrical book shows little ones doing what comes naturally: nursing. A perfect choice for cuddling up with a breastfeeding child or the older sibling who wonders how the new baby gets fed. A tender look at humans and animals breastfeeding in their natural habitats. Promotes infant health and attachment parenting. A thoughtful, supportive gift for new and soon-to-be mothers. Fascinating nursing facts included: Kangaroo milk is pink! Calf elephants may nurse up to 5 years!
Get it from Amazon HERE.
#2: Nursies When the Sun Shines
Nursies When the Sun Shines is a godsend to parents of nursing toddlers, exhausted from late night wakings for milk. Beautiful watercolor illustrations and a sweet, lulling verse help young children understand the concept of night and day. Night time, the book explains, is for sleeping. Nursies, on the other hand, happen when the sun shines.
In Nursies, a toussle-haired toddler is snuggled up in bed with mom and dad, ready to go to sleep for the night, the family’s grey striped cat snoozing soundly at their feet. When the toddler wakes at night for nursies, her mother shows her baby that it’s dark outside, and assures baby that she’ll have nursies when the sun shines. Later, with brilliant sun streaming through the window, the toddler knows it’s time for nursies.
The book closes with a heart-warming illustration of a nursing family: the toddler, nuzzled up to mama’s breast, daddy kissing toddler’s head, and even the family cat purring a love song. Nursies is a groundbreaking children’s book, the first-ever to focus on night weaning. Its goal is to facilitate communication between parent and young child, thereby making the process of night weaning as gentle and easy as possible.
Get it from Amazon HERE.
#3: The Wonders of Mother’s Milk
The Wonders of Mother’s Milk is a multicultural children’s book that will engage, educate and entertain its readers. With its rhythmic poetic text and colourfully diverse illustrations, early readers will be given the keys to unlock the doors of discovery into the many wonders of mother’s milk.
Get it from Amazon HERE.
#4: Breastmilk Makes My Tummy Yummy
A picture book for children celebrating the joys of breastfeeding. The colour illustrations show breastfeeding scenes parents and children will recognise with a smile
Get it on Amazon HERE.
#5: Mommy Breastfeeds My Baby Brother
While Jenna’s new baby brother is being breastfed, she learns about the importance of nursing and looks forward to her own time with Mom and Dad and her special feeding time toys.
Get it from Amazon HERE.
#6: We Like to Nurse
Brilliantly illustrated, this book celebrates the wonder of breastfeeding in humans and animals. A lovely book for young children and mothers.
Get it from Amazon HERE.
