Help me to be on time!

RachelD158

Title: Help me to be on time!

I can't figure out how to make it somewhere at a scheduled time with bf, and I better figure it out because I'm back to work in 3 weeks! Yesterday I was 45 minutes late to a baby shower because it was an hour away and DD would have had to eat while I was driving. So I left after she ate...in hindsight maybe I should've gotten there 45 mins early and fed her in the car? What do you do if you have a pedi appt and Lo needs to eat right at that time??

michelle142

(I'm just going to use approximate sample times here as an example)

If DS has a 9:45 dr. appointment and he would normally nurse at 9:30, it takes us 15 minutes to drive there. I would "top him off" around 9 rather than wait for him to get hungry at 9:30 when we would need to leave. Does that make sense?

By about 5 months, DS had himself on a pretty obvious schedule, so I tried to time appointments out around his feedings.

In the case of events where you can't control the start time, I do the same as above. Feed him right before we needed to leave to top him off.

TJ1979

I'm with PP. I just always feed right before I leave the house. I don't bother with the time. And I'm also not scared to feed wherever we go. I was at first, but not anymore.

jennygirlmt

I had a lot of trouble being on time at first too, and I'm an "on time is late" person. I started topping off right before we left as well. Or if I knew it wasn't close enough to DD being hungry then I would aim to be a touch early so I wasn't driving when she got hungry. I have no issues nursing anywhere. I don't work outside the home but you'll figure it out. Maybe you shower at night, have everything packed and ready to go and just arrange your morning around LOs nursing. Now that I have two, the newborn is the easy one and the two year old is the one who won't pee on the potty, put her shoes on, etc and makes me late :

jmo823

This was really hard for me in the beginning....I was late for EVERYTHING! Luckily most people understand that you are a new mom. My LO got on a schedule pretty early so I just try to schedule appointments in between feedings. Everything else I just feed him!

mexicolombiana

theresat858:

We don't have a schedule, so I've never had this issue.

I always feed LO before we leave the house, even if it has only been an hour since she ate...sometimes she is hungry and sometimes not, but at least then if she has a car meltdown I know it isn't from hunger.  I also don't hesitate to feed her wherever we are - so I would feed her, say, at the baby shower, or at the pedi appointment.  A nursing cover has helped me a lot in that respect.

Oh, and I always have to plan for it to take LO at least 15 minutes to eat. Because usually it takes 5-10, but if we are in a hurry, it always takes longer!

As far as work, you will figure out a morning routine that works for you. For us, it involves her eating while I pump the other side ~7:30-7:50 (or earlier on days she is wide awake early), walking the dog 8-8:20, getting our stuff together and then feeding her again around 8:30, aim to leave house at 8:45..time gets lost in there to other things but most days we leave by 8:50.

Exactly this.  I pretty much always try and BF before we leave the house.  Then I always plan to BF wherever we are.  I can't think of one place we've gone where I can't or won't BF my baby.  If all else fails and I can't BF her wherever we are I go to the car and do it comfortably there.  Like we went to Costco the other day and I couldn't find a good place to BF her so I just went back to the car.  

I also use a shawl or wrap just to keep my baby focused on BFing since at 10 months she's a really distracted eater.  But we also have no schedule of any kind and we've never had any problems.  With 2 kids we do have to start getting ready earlier whenever we go out but I think that's normal.  

 

Oh and as far as BFing at the pedi appointment, I always BF at the pedi office!  Usually we do the check up and they let me stay in the exam room as long as I want to feed the baby. 

Potatertot

My LO is only 2 and a half weeks, so she doesn't really have a schedule yet. As PPs have said, I make sure to feed her before we leave if we are going anywhere.

For example, we had a hearing test for her this morning at 9 and had to leave the house at 8. She woke around 6 and ate for about 30 minutes and then fell asleep. I let her sleep until around 7:15, and let her eat again for another 30 or so minutes, then got her ready and headed out.

Even making sure she eats before we head out, more often than not she wants to eat at some point wherever we are though. So far I've only really gone out with her to Dr. appointments, but so far I've had no issue just covering up and feeding her on demand.

She's had 2 pedi appointments so far, and for one I ended up feeding her in the waiting room before the appointment, and for the second she ended up eating in the room while waiting for the doc. They weren't full feedings, but they were enough to top her off and get her through until we got home. 

lauracoro

I do something completely different. If we are going out and its say an hour after I fed lo I will pump and take a bottle of expressed milk with me. I am still nervous about in public. I also pump in the morning so I have a bottle in the fridge everyday. When I don't use it I freeze it. It's kinda my safety net lol. If I can find a place to nurse I do. If I'm going to be late or uncomfortable I give the bottle of expressed milk. It works fore.