3 months to stop breastfeeding.... help!!

[ruthyless]

So I'm back to work in 3 months and will need to stop bf then! My baby girl and 6 months and whilst she is doing great on solids (3 big meals a day) she is still having around 10 feeds a day!!!! Not sure why she feeds so much, she's more of a snacker (little and often) but she wont take a bottle!! We've tried and tried with a bottle from her being pretty tiny but she wont take it! Whereas my son was very happy switching between breast and bottle! No idea what to do......

[Lightbulbon]

You don't need to stop bf to work!

You have a legal right to rest breaks to express at work.

But she will need to use a bottle or cup.

[mudandmayhem01]

I bf ds till he was 2 . I went back to work when he was 9 months. Childminder / granny would give him a cup of milk and he would just feed in the morning and evening. He never had a bottle and always rejected them. He quite liked his cup eventually but wouldn't take it from me.

[mineofuselessinformation]

I breastfed morning and evening after I returned to work. Could you get dd used to taking a bottle when you're not there during the day?

[Curlywurly4]

I also breastfed morning and evening. Was lovely to have snuggles after being away all day.

[ruthyless]

Yeah totally get its my right to have breaks to express but in reality in a busy day of meetings etc. It would be an extra faff, plus looking forward to ditching the nursing bras! I did carry on feeding my son after I went back to work but stopped when I started having to be away for a few days! Very happy to stop feeding my daughter at 9 months but it's just trying to work out the how! Maybe a cup is the way forward, but how do I get her used to having it in the day if she won't take it from me! Don't just want to drop her at nursery and run in March!!

[mudandmayhem01]

Can you get your dh to try him with the cup or bottle at the weekend good excuse to go out He will be a different baby at 9'months, also speak to the nursery, this is a common problem so I am sure they will have some ideas. Totally get you are ready to stop bf, would it be easy to separate the stopping and the going back to work?

[Lightbulbon]

I did it by just not being there when dp tried DC with the bottle.

[Newmanwannabe]

try a straw? My dd wouldn't take a bottle and I got her drinking from a straw cup at a similar age.

Is it possible she has a tongue tie? Might explain the short frequent feedings if she is not able to transfer a lot of milk in one go? Normally they are better with bottles but maybe it's harder to coordinate her sucking and swallowing.