Anyone bf at lunch?

sadielove

Just curious if anyone else breastfeeds at lunch and how much your baby eats when away from you.  I have been back to work for a week and this is what I am doing, but she hasn't eaten more than a couple ounces when away from me.

risysmama

This probably won't help much since my DD is much older than yours but I BF at lunch and send her to school with 3-4oz of BM.  I nurse right before I leave around 7:30, nurse at 11:30 and pick her up by 3:30.  The most she drank at daycare was 6-8oz without me nursing on my lunch break.

JaiKriBaby

This is our fifth week in daycare.  I have nursed him every day at lunch.  The first 4 weeks he drank about 4 oz from a bottle (2 oz twice a day).  This week he has been drinking from the bottle like a champ (he wouldn't at all before daycare) and is up to about 6-7 oz per day from a bottle in addition to my nursing at lunch.  His schedule is like this now:

7:30am - nurse before daycare

10:00 am - 3 oz from bottle

12:30pm - nurse

3:30pm - 3 oz from bottle

6:00 pm - nurse after pickup

8:00 pm - nurse before bed

- then he usually wakes up once in the night to nurse 

DDearinger

JaiKriBaby:

7:30am - nurse before daycare

10:00 am - 3 oz from bottle

12:30pm - nurse

3:30pm - 3 oz from bottle

6:00 pm - nurse after pickup

8:00 pm - nurse before bed

This is basically our exact schedule as well.  I think its great that I can go and nurse her during my lunch break.  She'll eat between 3 to 4 oz from the bottle.  (She was getting 4 oz, but she had been spitting up a lot, so the girl who watches her has gone back down to 3 oz).

snowbrdchic1

I've been back to work for 2 weeks now and I nurse DD on my lunch.

7:00 Nurse before I drop her off

9:00 3-4oz

11:00 3-4 oz

1:00 nurse her

3:00 3-4oz

5 pick her up

and I nurse her when I get home and 2 more times before bed. Sometimes she wont do 2 feedings before l nurse her and other times she does. I still feed on demand.

sgrl

I nurse at lunch, but my supply is crappy and she only gets about 2 oz from me per nursing session, so it's more about having bonding time and keeping what little supply I have up rather than an actual meal for her. I nurse her around 7:30 am, then she'll generally have one and sometimes two bottles before I get home around 1:30 to nurse her, and then another one or two before I get home at 6:30.

curlilocks1207

I do. This is my 4th week back at work and I've only missed one "lunch date" so far.  For the first 3 weeks Bryan took (3) 4/-5 oz bottles while at daycare, one in the a.m. and 2 in the afternoon. This week he has only taken (1) 5 oz bottle in the morning and one in the afternoon.

Angela814

I did up until DD was about 17 months. She had two bottles at daycare, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. At 3 months, they were 4oz bottles. The most she ever took in a bottle was 6oz, and that was at around 8 months.