Will try to keep this brief!
Back to work in 6wks, I could express but only once at lunchtime. If I were to do this, I would end up coming home later (I'm a teacher - hoping to work like fury through lunch hour marking etc in order to be able to leave earlier). I think that I'd really rather get home earlier and actually feed dd myself, than spend time expressing at lunchtime and then have to stay later at the end of the day.
In the run up to me going back we are trying to make an effort to have dd spend some more time with her 2 grannies and DH as they will be sharing childcare. As she is a v frequent feeder and, until recently, complete bottle refusnik I have spent very little time away from her in 6.5mths and I think both of us need to be broken in gently to spending time apart.
So the plan is that over the next 6 weeks I go away for a half day maybe every week or so letting grannies and/or dh get on with it, including a couple of feeds. I'm quite looking forward to this tbh, plan on getting a haircut, doing some clothes shopping etc.
The last time I left dd for a one-off day in at work I left EBM and it took a whole week of once or twice daily pumping sessions to get enough, and that is with a double electric pump .
The thought of expressing enough to do that once a week for the next 6 weeks is truly depressing - I find it very physically draining for some reason, and also hard to fit in the time to do it.
God this is SO not brief, sorry!
Anyway I have finally accepted that she will have to get formula at some point, and now that she's on solids and we've passed the 6mth mark I don't mind SO much.
So what I really am worried about now is - will my supply be ok? Both on these odd days and also when I go back to work? If it suffers, how will I tell?
And finally, please help me not to beat myself up re the formula!!
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Will I be ok - in terms of supply - to start mixed feeding at 6.5mths? Expressing is killing me I can't keep it up!
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Caz10 · 28/06/2008 20:56
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