Nursery feeds for 9 month old with CMPA

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I am looking for some advice about non-dairy milk feeding options for our DD, who due to start nursery in a month's time. She is currently 8 months and exclusively breastfed. She refuses any and all bottles (even with breastmilk), and always has. She has CMPA and a peanut allergy too (she is fine with soya). Typically, she has four or five milk feeds a day. She'll be doing three full days of nursery each week, so would have at least two feeds whilst at nursery.

I am not sure what to do in terms of keeping her milk-based nutrition up on her nursery days, assuming she refuses any bottles of expressed breastmilk that I send her with, and can't eat dairy products there. Does anyone have any advice or similar experiences? I know that by the time she is 12 months, a morning and/or evening breastfeed will be more than enough, but at the moment she's only on two meals a day and I think she needs the nutrition that comes from breastmilk.

Thanks for any help!

My daughter started at a simillar age - no I tolerances etc but just a complete bottle refuser. They eat little and often which I think helps, and she also reverse cycled her feeds, so had a couple of brief but efficient feeds overnight. Not ideal but it works for us

Would she drink from a cup if expressed breast milk? You can get a doidy cup which is a great first cup as it has a slanted side which means you do not need to tip it to drink out of

Thanks @Findahouse21, I hadn't thought about baby switching around her feeding times to the night by herself. I guess if she's hungry, she'll do that. I'm glad it worked out for you, that's good to hear.

@YorkshireIndie I've heard about the doidy cup but haven't tried it, so maybe that is another option we could try. We've only tried Tommee Tippee and NUK cups so far, so thanks for the suggestion.