Just read the most awful way to wean a child!

[teresa]

thats awful! to be honest thats why i deleted myself from some of the pages that kept putting up "ok so our mum needs advice on blah blah" i found people put up some horrible solutions, and i got attacked for what i put up. it was just awful.

[sushee]

I actually did something similar with my 18 month old (who is now 18). My mother ground up bitter gourd (which is edible by the way) and I slathered it on my nipples to get DS2 to stop breastfeeding. .

He didn't like the taste at all, because it was bitter, and he quit breastfeeding. It was aversion therapy that, to me at the time, seemed less cruel than just saying 'no, you can't have it because I say so'. He just went from liking the breast to not liking it anymore and willingly gave it up.

[Tinks]

Some of my parenting choices could stir a great debate, as could yours. What works some people is always looked down upon by someone else

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I think it is definitely an each to their own kind of thing, while i don't think i could have done it i can see why someone would try it.

DD2 could be VERY vocal about her want for booby (just ask HotI) and had we had major issues weaning then it not tasting so good might have been my only way out.
I don't think it's cruel, it's another way of weaning.
Just like telling your child there is no milk (when there is), that it tastes bad, that your boobs are sore - all are things that stop the child from getting what they want, all will cause them to be upset at the refusal.

Each to their own, as long as someone is not using actual poison then i don't see the issue.

[Mildez]

Boot polish is what the pharmacist recommended to a friend at 2.5yrs. The look alone was enough without having a taste for her Dd. I'm BF my 17month old and it's not much fun when your ready to wean and they aren't.

[Honeybee]

Actually, I think it's not such an awful idea for a toddler. I am facing the prospect (again) of weaning DS2 (16 months) in the next few months because I would really, really like to try to have another baby and time is running out. I think it would be much kinder to him for him to decide he doesn't want the breast any more rather than me denying it to him for no reason he can understand.

[Livinthedream]

I think that any woman who has BF her child for 2 1/2 years probably has her childs best interests at heart

How she chooses to wean a child of that age is her business really.

[onthefly]

i could think of worse ways of weaning

[sushee]

I'm pretty sure my 18 year old doesn't remember that I weaned him by making my nipples taste bitter to him when he was 18 months old. To be honest, he just accepted that he didn't like it anymore and got on with it. And forgot about my breasts like they were an old toy in about 3 days.