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June 2011 Moms
DreamChaser246
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? For those with LO's in daycare and planning on BF beyond a year
DreamChaser246
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What are your plans?
Right now LO takes bottles at daycare (water out of a straw cup) and we EBF at home.
Are you switching from bottles to something else? Keeping with bottles for now? What are you switching to if you are?
LO HATES sippy cups, and took to the straw, so we're going with it.
The bottles work well for daycare, in transport, heating, etc.
I plan on still pumping at work, as much as I hate it, it is important to me. I haven't decreased the amount of time pumping yet. I'm so freaked out that when I do my supply will stop, and I won't be able to BF.
Rainbow baby, EDD 7/8/14, missed miscarriage 12/5/13.
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Re: ? For those with LO's in daycare and planning on BF beyond a year
any reason you can't send breastmilk in his straw cups? Maybe try a little every now and then to see how he takes to it?
My supply was tanking anyway, so I'm done pumping already. I'm sending formula during the day now and I'll switch that to cows milk and still breastfeed morning/nights.
I'm hoping to wean to BF morning/nights and possibly once during the day. My current plan is to gradually decrease to those BF sessions after a year. At daycare LO will take pumped BM/WCM and water in sippy cups during the day. I hope to slowly mix the BM/WCM until I my freezer stash runs out and/or I quit pumping during the day.
So... as far as pumping, I'm currently pumping twice a day at work (10:30am and 2:30pm) and BF DD while at home. Around 11 months I plan on dropping one pump and pump in the middle of the day.... around noon. I will see how it goes from there, and possibly pump once a day for a few months. Eventually I will drop that mid-day pump and just BF morning/nights until she is ready to completely wean.
Doesnt your DC provide suppy cups?
While I didn't BF my older son much past a year, I did continue to send in breastmilk for awhile (mainly because I had it in the freezer & hated to see it go to waste!) I put the whole day's supply in a larger container, then they poured it into sippy cups for him to have with his breakfast & lunch (eventually, I started mixing in cow's milk, then weaned down to all cow's milk)
I had them give it to him just with meals, not at the times he normally took a bottle....for those times, they offered a snack and water. hope that helps!
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Yes, they do have sippy cups and straw cups. But I still have to get the milk there (and the milk home) and right now I use the bottles that he drinks out of. I'm just not sure when to switch from the bottles, and it feels silly to be doing all this bottle transport and washing if they're just going to pour it into another container at daycare. I use the Playtex drop-in bottles, so I'm just trying to figure out a good solution, or if it is even worth switching now and just going along with what I'm doing and eventually wean him from the bottle later on. It is only a daycare issue, since when he's at home I don't use a bottle at all.
Why not some sort of jug that can fit in their fridge?
Yeah, I'm just trying to brainstorm and see what everyone else is planning on doing.
I was just thinking about this. I have a weird schedule since I work nights, so as long as I want to keep breastfeeding I'll have to keep my one nighttime pump going. I only pump one other time during the day, but I might move that from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., so I can sleep in if I want to.
After a year I will replace at least one of her two daytime BFing sessions with pumped milk. I'm going to try switching to milk in a sippy soon; we'll see how she does. She likes water in it right now, but that doesn't mean anything.