Jo Jo, I agree with Rosehip Fairy. I wouldn't be giving her cows milk to drink yet, but I wouldn't be worrying about formula either. Try and keep up with 4 bfs a day for now as the bm is still the most important part of your DDs diet. But if you do want the flexibility to work, I would give expressing a day. You wouldn't need much EBM to cover one feed a day, and your DD is eating solids and drinking water so you really could get by without expressing but maybe make an extra feed up elsewhere. Closer to 12 months, 3 bfs a day is probably ok anyway, and from 12 months definitely it's ok, both my boys stopped taking more than 2 -3 feeds a day not long after 12 months. GL. I have returned to work after each of my boys was about the age of your DD and I never gave any formula (or cows' milk before 12 months).

RF - Wow, you really do get some bad advice hun don't you!! Neither of my boys drank cows milk before 12 months, both were bf until at least 14 months and both love thier cows' milk now (not that that's necessarily a good thing, I have my doubts about how good it is for them). Good on you for putting up with it all!