Leaving Overnight for the First Time

basil2008

Hey Moms: I'm going out of town in a month, leaving my 9 month old for the first time with my parents. I exclusively breastfeed and she rarely ever takes a bottle. The times my husband has tried (or grandparents have tried) she fights it and won't take it. I'm so worried about leaving her. What if she doesn't take a bottle by then? Can she go 24 hours with no breast milk (or very little)? And be okay on just solids and water? Or should I not chance it and not go....? I know she will survive obviously but I don't want to put her in harms way. Also, she still wakes up at night multiple times and nurses 1-2 times. I'm working so hard to night wean her in time but it's not going well and I don't know if she will be weaned by then. So not only will she be in an unknown crib/house, she knows my parents but not very well, she doesn't take a bottle well, she won't have me to nurse her, .... would you still go?!?! (FWIW, it's an out of town wedding with a bunch of our friends... we SO need this night away, BUT not if it means putting my DD in an awful situation).  I mean, solids can't hold her over for 24 hours without any breast milk. She isn't consuming enough solids to make it without milk, which is why babies have to drink it, even cows milk after the age of one.... so will I be making her starve for 24 hours if she doesn't drink out of a bottle?

 

 

britbratjf

Try getting her to take BM from a sippy cup if she won't take a bottle.

Also I left my DD with my Mom and SF overnight for the first time last month and the stinker slept way better for them than for me from 6:30 til 9am straight. So she ma

BubbaJug

Are you going to be miserable if you go because you're worrying so much? If so, I don't see the point in taking the trip and changing things up on your DD and not even enjoying yourself.

basil2008

Thanks ladies!! I'm going to have my mom babysit her a few times before I leave her, and try BM in bottles and a sippy cup, to see how things go. I won't cancel, I really don't want to. I HOPE DD sleeps better for them!! I have some frozen BM I plan on us

Pandril19

What all the other ladies said.   And even if your DD did refuse the BM from bottle or sippy cups, 24 hours isn't going to starve her.  Yes, they still need BM or formula until 1, but that's from an overall nutrition standpoint.  A day