After reading K. Dettwyler's apt suggestions (for the mother to talk to the
child about the three-day interruption to bf) I recalled a woman in my
practice who had a similar situation. She applied bandaids to her breasts
to help her toddler understand, and said it worked like magic. The toddler
was quite sympathetic over the few days he could not nurse.

Margery Wilson, IBCLC