Weaning a Baby

I wouldn't suggest using nail polish. To much risk involved. I am not sure if you are trying to stop the baby from feeding from your body or the bottle. So I will address each. To stop them from latching on to you, simply stop offering it as much. Don't stop it cold turkey but limit the amount of feeding from your body. Put your milk in a bottle and feed that way. Keep doing this until the child is primarily using the bottle. I wouldn't use things to discourage the child from eating when hungry. Just make sure you get this done before the child gets teeth. When my daughters were younger, they all caught me off guard and bit me. And I'm the dad, i was rocking her to sleep. It's amasing how sharp new teeth are. To ween from a bottle, we used this method. We would slowly start to introduce liquids in a cup. A regular cup that we would hold for the child. Things like juice, milk, water, and in very rare cases, soft drinks. Once the child had become comfortable with the cup, get a sipper cup with nice big handles. Fill the sipper cup halfway with the liquid of choice and give to child.

I guess it depends on the age of the baby. I prefer self weaning from bre@stfeeding unless there is some need to do it quickly like work obligations. If the mother has the time to spend with the child, there's really nothing wrong with nursing until age 2 or even a bit longer. I wouldn't recommend anything that the baby would actually ingest, that just sounds too risky. Plus the baby would associate the terrible taste with what had been a very gentle, loving moment with mom. I would think the baby may feel some sort of rejection if the mom used a product like that...not just a rejection of milk but of the comfort given by mom. If she really feels she has to wean the baby, I guess slowly taking away feedings would probably be best and introducing the cup first everytime the baby wants to nurse.