To expect to be able to leave bf baby for one night

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Me and my 8 month old baby are getting along great with breastfeeding. I bf her to sleep every night and bf her in the night when she wakes and we're OK with that. It's all working grand for us. But there is one-night planned which had been booked before I was even pregnant which would mean I won't be here at bedtime and would be away until about 10pm. I have an amazing DM who will look after her and she is a bit of a baby whisperer but my DD only knows me and being bf so I honestly don't know how she will sleep.
I obviously know I could start introducing a bottle. And DD will happily drink from a sippy cup. But in an ideal world I don't really want to change anything for just one night.
Has anyone else done this and do you have any advice? I think DD will drink milk from the cup when we're away and she eats solids well too.
DD will be about 10 months when we go.

That's fine if it works for you, but it is not essential. I was told that by 9m, they only need (for nutritional purposes) 2-3 feeds a day. I returned to work at 9m and fed my DC at 8am, 6pm, bedtime and in the night as needed. They had food between 8 and 6, thanks to being bottle refusers. They carried on breastfeeding until 3 years and 4 years, so it clearly didn't put them off!

Your mum can try other ways of getting her to sleep, and if she is still awake at 10pm then so be it!

Thank you so much for all your replies. It's made me feel so much better just having that reassurance from others that she'll most likely be fine. I'm going to get her used to milk from the sippy cup and also see if DM can get her down for a nap and see how it goes.

How is that helping OP?

Mine was a bottle refusing little so and so who to this day at 20 months is a frequent breastfeeder and feeds to sleep… if I’m there. I left him once a month at 6mo for a night out and he goes to sleep for other people no problems. Naps at nursery no problems. Once he was eating solids and drinking water from a cup I eas ok leaving him for short periods like an evening. They are quite resilient and smart, they know if there is no boob to be had.

My DS is 8 months and breastfed, he feeds to sleep. He will take a bottle from DH or my mum if absolutely starving but isnt really keen. I've been out in the evening several times until about 10 - DH rocks him to sleep and I wake him to feed (for my benefit to clear my boobs) rather than his. He is quite chilled though, my first DS would have been inconsolable (I did go out anyway it was just a difficult evening for DH). I've also been away in the day a few times for KIT days at work and my mum has given him formula in a cup which he's happy with then I feed him a lot when I get home.

Definitely go if you want to!

It wasn’t. It was a ‘superior mummy’ flex. Deeply unhelpful.

The ideal of not be able to (or wanting to) leave my children for the first year is suffocating to me.