Hi!

DS is 9 months and we exclusively breastfeed. With my DD I used to express and have her bottle fed EBM while occasionally away from her to play sport, etc. However, DS steadfastly refused the bottle and thus he has not yet had a single feed away from me.

He is now capable of drinking from a cup and I think would happily have a feed away from me - quite often I have to remind him to have a lunchtime feed, which is generally very quick.

I'm wondering what the best option for milk would be to give him if I were to be away from him? The difficulty is that I don't think I have enough supply to pump as I did with DD. Can I go with cows milk for the odd feed? I know it's preferable to wait until 12 months, but I'm wondering if that's more for making that the "usual" type of milk. Or do I have to do formula (never used the stuff and not particularly keen to)?