Hello all. I am currently breastfeeding a one year old - we are currently at 2-3 feeds a day, morning (usually at 6.30 or so, when he wakes), sometimes at 3ish after I pick him up from nursery, and evening before bed at 6.45. He gets one bottle of formula (7oz) at 10.30 at nursery.
At the moment, he has his breakfast at around 8am and I drop him to nursery at 9.30am. From September, however, I will need to be at work by 7.30am, which means I will need to leave home by 6.45, and husband will be dropping him (and his older sister) to nursery at around 8.15am. I'm just wondering what to do with feeding/breakfast. I will probably be able to feed him in the morning before I leave, but perhaps not always if he sleeps late. Nursery do provide breakfast, but usually not till 9am when the "arrivals rush" dies down. This seems to be fine for my toddler - last year when she was going full time, she would have a cup of milk at home and have her breakfast at nursery, and never complained of being hungry or anything. But my son seems to be RAVENOUS in the mornings - he starts getting really cross at around 7.30, and then devours his breakfast as soon as I dish it up. A few mornings last week I tried to give him a sippy cup of milk and hold off breakfast till 9, but he was really cranky with hunger.
Husband could give him breakfast at 7.30ish, but then I'm worried about him going hungry between breakfast and lunch, as the nursery have a really annoying food schedule in the baby/waddler rooms and don't give lunch till after the afternoon nap, at 2.30 (at 10.30/11 they have bottles and fruit). That's a pretty long gap between breakfast and lunch, I think. This will be the case till he moves to the toddler room at around 15-16 months, so a while yet.
I know I'm overthinking this a bit - he's not even my pfb, but he's just so angry when he is hungry! Also, I was hoping to wind down the breastfeeding soon - I'm away with work for a week at the end of October, so I would like to finish up gently if possible before that. So I'd like to have the morning routine sorted by then. What does your early morning routine for nursery look like, food-wise?
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badb · 19/08/2019 12:48
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