Returning to work - How to wean baby off breastfeeding

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I am due to return to work in a couple of months when my son will be 10 months old. He is breastfed and refuses to take a bottle. He will have a few sips in a beaker but not enough for a feed. He also uses my boobs for comfort at times when he is tired or grizzly. I am just wandering if anyone has any tips on how to wean him off his day feeds without it effecting his routine too much. I will still feed him before I leave for work in the morning and when I pick him up from nursery.
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i Returned at about the same time as you. I asked her care givers to offer her milk in a beaker. She refused that and would just wait until I got home. She would eat and drink water and was happy while I was at work, out of sight out of mind!

Have you tried teets shaped like a nipple? Ones I can remember are Minbie, might take a few tries of different teets but he's bound to accept one until you can get him comfortable drinking from a beaker.

Both DSs were bottle refusers and just went cold turkey in the day and caught up around the evening/ night/ morning. They went to nursery at 10m.

DS2 is 19m and still breastfeeds. I went back to work and he waits til I'm home. It's not necessarily my choice but he doesn't want to give it up (and I don't really want to force him).

Same as @ShinyGiratina. Cold turkey during the day and just a feed in the morning and evening.

Never topped up with formula or cows milk either. He had water from a sippy cup as he just couldn’t work out bottles!

I went back to work at 7 months. I replaced the daytime feeds with solids and let the nursery offer him a drink of cow's milk in a cup. He gradually started to accept cow's milk when he was away from me. I kept up an evening breast feed until he was 16 months.

Thanks all for your response!
Have tried loads of different teats even ones that are "nipple shaped etc" but he doesn't really get the concept and just plays with the teat in his mouth. Way better than before he was on solids though when he used to scream when we put it in his mouth, so some progress. Have managed to replace one feed with solids so will try and drop another feed in a couple of weeks. He seems quite happy with solids so hopefully can go cold turkey during the day!

DC1 had been a bottle refusenik with me, but happily started using one once at nursery all day.

DC2 never accepted expressed milk or formula from any bottle or cup. So went cold turkey.

Went back about 10 months. At that point they had a feed when I walked through the door, one before bed and one first thing. Then dropped the one as I got home. Next dropped the morning (about 15 months, swapped to milk in a sippy cup) and finally the night feed around 2. Neither of mine mastered a bottle.