Hi there

When DS was born, I had 1 week off work before he arrived, and 9 weeks after. I then went back to full time work - normlaly out of the house for 12 hours a day.

We still managed to exclusively bf for 6 months (despite having surgery at 4 months) and then comp fed until 10 months. It was a moster effort, but with the right equipment and support from your DH and workplace, it is completely doable.

I bf when at home, and then DH would syringe/cup/bottle feed DS when I was out. And DH did one feed per day for DS from birth (literally from the day he was born) so DS was always used to getting fed multiple ways, and he had no hiccups with adjusting, nipple confusion, or anything like that.

Getting set up: we started with 3 small (140ml?) bottles, 8 big (220ml?) bottles, bottle cleaning brush, microwave steriliser, an electrip pump (though we ended up with two - one at home and one at the office - both were the electric Avent one, which I love), lots of breastmilk cups with lids (probably 20), a little travel esky for the EBM, and that's about it for that side of things ... we also had syringes and little cups of course, but they were only for the very start ...

Otherwise, I had a wheely suitcase packed at work, with handtowels, lots of paper towels, a pack of biscuits, a big water bottle, a little photobook of pictures of DS, a novel, spare EBM cups and lids, my pump, and a spare microwave steriliser, which I used as a drying rack. And 2-3 times a day, I would take my wheely into a spare office, and do my thing ...

I also would pump a couple of times a day at home, and would label and freeze the milk in bags for DH to use.

That's all I can think of right now ... but please let me know if you have any other Qs

If however you're thinking of comping with formula instead of EBM, I guess it would be similar to the above, but just minus the pumping ... but others might be able to give you personal feedback on that

Good luck!