Leaving 5 mo BF DD for a 4 day business trip

Re: Leaving 5 mo BF DD for a 4 day business trip

• mommatotwo2 member

  January 2015

  My initial thought is that if her daytime bottles were bumped up in either ounces or frequency, she might wake less at night. The general rule is 1 ounce per hour, so if she's gone from you exactly 9 hours from nurse to nurse, 9 oz would be her minimum. Breastfed babies generally need roughly 24-25 oz per day, so that's leaving her needing 15 to 16 ounces while you are together, so it makes sense that she's basically nursing non-stop while you are together and not because she needs comfort.
  
  I'd make sure while you're away that she's getting that 25 ounces in bottles, however you want to break it down.

  

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• KayteeGee member

  January 2015

  mommatotwo2 said:

  My initial thought is that if her daytime bottles were bumped up in either ounces or frequency, she might wake less at night. The general rule is 1 ounce per hour, so if she's gone from you exactly 9 hours from nurse to nurse, 9 oz would be her minimum. Breastfed babies generally need roughly 24-25 oz per day, so that's leaving her needing 15 to 16 ounces while you are together, so it makes sense that she's basically nursing non-stop while you are together and not because she needs comfort. I'd make sure while you're away that she's getting that 25 ounces in bottles, however you want to break it down.

  THANK YOU! This is really helpful.  I leave at 8:15 and get home at 6:15 so it's a 7:30/7:45 nursing to a 6:30 nursing - so 11 hours.  That's about what I'm pumping - I've been freezing the remaining 2 ish ounces.  But I guess I will try adding those to her bottles. 
  
  

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• mommatotwo2 member

  January 2015

  KayteeGee said:

  
  

  mommatotwo2 said:

  
  

  My initial thought is that if her daytime bottles were bumped up in either ounces or frequency, she might wake less at night. The general rule is 1 ounce per hour, so if she's gone from you exactly 9 hours from nurse to nurse, 9 oz would be her minimum. Breastfed babies generally need roughly 24-25 oz per day, so that's leaving her needing 15 to 16 ounces while you are together, so it makes sense that she's basically nursing non-stop while you are together and not because she needs comfort.
  
  I'd make sure while you're away that she's getting that 25 ounces in bottles, however you want to break it down.

  
  

  THANK YOU! This is really helpful.  I leave at 8:15 and get home at 6:15 so it's a 7:30/7:45 nursing to a 6:30 nursing - so 11 hours.  That's about what I'm pumping - I've been freezing the remaining 2 ish ounces.  But I guess I will try adding those to her bottles. 
  
  
  That's perfect, that's what I'd do. I'd try for three, four ounce bottles, or as close as you can get.
  
  While you're away I'd probably have her doing five, four ounces bottles, the three during the day and adding a morning bottle and evening bottle, spacing about every 3 hours. Then, I'd have DH reserve two bottles of about 2.5 ounces for the overnight feedings.
  
  Good luck!
  

  

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• KayteeGee member

  January 2015

  THANK YOU!  This is now totally my plan.
  thank you so so much.
  

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• mommatotwo2 member

  January 2015

  No problem, good luck!

  

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• mommatotwo2 member

  January 2015

  I also wanted to add, you're doing an awesome job pumping and working. I know it's super hard, I did it myself from three months to a year. Keep up the great work!

  

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• KayteeGee member

  January 2015

  Thanks.  I really appreciate it.
  

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