DS is 10mths & still feeds pretty much 2 hourly round the clock. sometimes he goes longer during the day & he wakes every 1-2 hours overnight (sometimes every 30 mins) & he's fed back to sleep. he's fed to sleep at night & also for his 2 naps during the day (well, until now).
i'm currently looking for a part time job (2-3 days a week) & i'm wondering what we should do with regards to the feeds during the day. depending on which days of the week i work he'll either be with DP or in child care. until now, any time i've had to leave DS with someone else for any length of time, he's had a bottle of formula. however, if i'm away from him more regularly, i'm wondering whether i would do bottles or whether i'd just feed him before work & then afterwards & he just ate solids during the day (he's not a huge eater but does seem to enjoy food)? i'm a bit scared of how much more he may want from me if i do that - i've had 10 months of no more than 2 hours sleep at a time & i think i'd struggle if things got worse overnight & i was working.
argh. this is all very longwinded - thank you for reading if you've made it this far. i guess i'm just looking to hear what has worked for other people & trying to get rid of some guilt over having to leave him for financial reasons.
i have a bub that feeds every couple of hours through the day and this was one of my major stressors with going back to work - how to keep up my milk supply for her on the days i'm home, how to have enough milk for her during the day - all that stuff did my head in
anyway, i went back to work a couple of weeks ago - i built up a supply of EBM (enough for maybe 5 days if she was taking 2 hourly feeds) in the freezer, and when i went back to work i expressed on my lunch break to keep milk supply up. i don't get a lot but it's enough for a small snack feed for her. when i'm not there, she will have one, maybe two small milk feeds during the day - when i'm around, she has at least four....
i have to leave at 6.30am to drop her off at mum's before work (or 7am if i'm leaving her with DH) - i feed her last thing before i leave from mums (or home), and generally first thing when i get home. i go four hours or whatever, then express for my comfort more than anything. she is more than happy to go long stretches without milk if it's not "on tap" as it is when we're together.
if you're looking at full days, for your own comfort and to reduce risk of mastitis, you'll probably want to express - but if it's a five hour shift, you may no need to
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