Nursies When the Sun Shines: A Little Book on Nightweaning - Hardcover

Havener, Katherine C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0615343570 ISBN 13: 9780615343570

Publisher: Elea Press, 2019

Synopsis

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, mom 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Katherine Havener is a natural and attachment parenting advocate, attorney, and mother to three beautiful girls. She is a retired Holistic Moms Network leader and is an active member of La Leche League. Katherine has been featured in national and San Francisco Bay Area parenting magazines and news shows. Her inspiration for Nursies was her daughter Elea, who, for the first 22 months of her life, woke up every two hours to nurse. Katherine has been happily married to her husband, Reese, for thirteen years. This is her first children's book.

Review:

I am so excited: a book about night-weaning a toddler who still sleeps in bed with you! What a joy. I was sent this book and we LOVE it. Its simple, illustrated so delicately, and shows bed-sharing and a supportive papa, and such a neat relationship. I highly recommend it! --Mayim Bialik, actress and author of the new Attachment Parenting book Beyond the Sling

The text is simple and tender.. The illustrations in this book are gorgeous. The joyous expression on the child s face when at last the sun has risen is just unmistakable. And the father kissing the baby's head while she nurses is precious. I've met so many co-sleeping mothers of toddlers who find themselves acting as an open bar at night. And it's hard to explain, in a way that a toddler can understand, that you want to sleep at night. By using the sun as a guidepost, this book does a beautiful job of gently introducing a system that can work for everyone --Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC, Motherwear.com Breastfeeding blog

The marriage of stunning atmospheric illustrations and affectionate text create a perfect keepsake treasure. --thealphaparent.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Elea Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0615343570
• ISBN 13: 9780615343570
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 18
• Illustrator: Burrier Sara