DS is a week off being 9 months old, breastfed but will take a bottle of formula or expressed milk when I'm out (and eats food like a horse). I'm on a hen do tomorrow (various activities in the day, then meal/night out in the evening). Originally I had planned to do a morning activity, come home, feed DS and then go out again for the evening. However, the timing of the activities has changed and I'm now going to be out from about 10.30am tomorrow until late tomorrow night - certainly well past DS' bedtime, and he generally sleeps through. So effectively this means I will feed him about 10am tomorrow, and then that'll be it until he wakes up on Sunday morning at about 7am - so 21 hours between feeds. I've never left it that long between feeds before - the longest has been 8 hours when I've done a kit day at work. I'm not worried about DS - he's with DH and then my mum and will take a bottle from either of them quite happily, as well as food. I'm more worried about me - two questions really. One, will my supply be OK? I really don't want to stop bf yet and I don't want it suddenly drying up! And two, am I going to be severely engorged do you think? I might possibly be able to express at some point during the day, but opportunities will be limited. I can express as soon as I get home at night (tempted to wake DS and make him feed, but I will resist!)
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lurcherlover · 22/07/2011 20:18
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