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Breast milk for daycare?

I will be going back to work in a couple weeks and as of right now we EP. My question is: how do you send milk to daycare? Do you give them fresh/frozen? Do you send formula as back up. Bring home leftover milk?
Any input would be helpful as my first started daycare at 18mo and we didn't have to worry about it. Thanks!!
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Re: Breast milk for daycare?

  • I've always sent 3 4oz bottles and a 2 oz as a "just in case". Around 5 months, i think i upped it to 5 oz per bottle, but when he started eating solids, he went back down to 4 oz bottles.  I have a little cooler bag that i bring the bottles in prepared, and any that he doesn't use go back home with me at the end of the day.  They also have a freezer where i stash a bag or two of back up supply.
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  • I send the bottles all made up, either freshly thawed or fresh BM. I sent 10 oz frozen when he first started which the dcp keeps in her freezer for an emergency.

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  • I send fresh all week except for Monday when I rotate out frozen from my stash (freeze Friday's milk and then get what's needed for Monday from my stash).  I send 4 4oz bottles a day.  DS mostly sleeps through the night so he eats the majority of his calories at daycare.  I have a few ozs frozen at daycare but they havent needed it.  There have been a couple days when I picked him up before he got his last bottle so I take that bottle home and send it again the next day or give it to him at the next feeding if it was previously frozen (and has to be used within 24 hours of thawing).

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  • babymama619babymama619 member
    edited January 2014
    I send 4 4oz bottles for 10 hours. She usually drinks about 11 or 12 though. I have a hone DC situation so I put about 8oz in her freezer just in case in 1-2oz bags. I send fresh milk that I pump the day before. She started DC at 8 weeks.

    I use Friday's milk for Monday.

  • I sent the bags of frozen milk. They made the bottles. I never sent fresh because it was easier and he got fresh straight from me 2-4 times a day anyway.
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  • I send 6 4oz bottles. I have a tray that fits 6 bottles, so I keep it filled at all times w fresh milk; it's just easier to grab the whole tray. Whatever he doesn't use (which is 2 bottles usually), I bring the next day, along with fresh milk. I have sent frozen bags when I didn't pump enough to cover all 6 bottles. Then if it's not used I put it back in the freezer. (It stays in the freezer there). I ask her to save any unused milk (like if he didn't finish his bottle) in the fridge. I make his baby food with it.
  • I send three, 4 oz bottles. For awhile we were sending four 4 oz bottles, but in the past month, she's taking 2-3 good solids meals  day and doesn't take as much milk from the bottle. I send fresh from the day before and Monday she gets Fridays pumped milk. Sometimes pull from the freezer stash if I don't make enough. I keep bottles labeled in the fridge and rotate oldest first, so occasionally, if I pump more than the 12 oz she is drinking, that milk stays in the fridge until the next day. I keep milk in the fridge up to 5 days.
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  • Soon2BMrsNSoon2BMrsN member
    edited January 2014
    Our daycare required bottles to be pre-made. So I sent three 4 oz. bottles each day. They also had two 4 oz. bags of frozen milk in the freezer in case of emergency. I never had a crazy big freezer stash, so I just sent fresh milk usually.
  • Genius! I was wondering how to bring milk and this makes so much sense to freeze Friday and bring frozen from the stash Monday! I feel so happy that I know this now!!!
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