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Breastfeeding and starting nursery

6 replies

onionlove · 10/08/2010 08:54

Hi everyone,
Apologies if this has already been answered. I have a month before going back to work (2.5 days a week) and have been trying to introduce DS (7.5 months) to a cup or bottle with breast milk in so he will be able to have some at nursery. He has not taken to it at all, just chews the top of the bottle and spills everything with the cup. Not sure what I can do, he isn't eating much solid food at the moment (may be teeth) so I'm worried he won't have anything at nursery and will be unhappy. All ideas welcome.
Thanks
Onion x

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jemjabella · 10/08/2010 09:56

What cups have you tried? Tommee Tippee first cups work well from quite early on.

ProcessYellowC · 10/08/2010 22:16

DS wouldn't take any expressed milk from me. And the trial run leaving him with my husband didn't go well at all. I just had to leave him to go to work one day (at 10 mos), and it all went well.
And he didn't really eat solid food till 14 months.

Hopefully your DS will either get hungry and drink the expressed milk/eat food, or he'll just be so distracted he'll wait until he sees you again and more than make up for it!!

Druzhok · 10/08/2010 22:35

onion: I've said pretty much the same stuff on here before, but I think you may as well just enjoy your remaining time off without trying to introduce a 'substitute'. I am saying this with the benefit of hindsight, but I found that very little of what I tried to do to prepare DD actually worked.

She adapted herself, when in a nursery environment. When I was there, she thought it was ridiculous to try the cups/bottles and completely rejected them.

In fact, DD seemed pretty distressed by any attempts to give her breast milk by any means other than directly from the source. So we had to bite the bullet when she went to nursery: she drank some water in the day and then fell upon me as soon as I picked her up.

I can't pretend; it was pretty tough at first. She wasn't happy. But things improved quickly and we are still breastfeeding at nearly 20 months.

Please, please enjoy the rest of your maternity leave. I spoiled the end of mine by fretting so very much about choosing to carry on breastfeeding.

Are you planning on carrying on feeding yourself? I've done it both ways: I weaned DS off at around 9 months (which I suppose I regret, although he settled in pretty easily), and carried on with DD (again, mixed results, but ultimately a better appraoch for me).

Good luck x

onionlove · 13/08/2010 10:07

Thanks guys, I will get the TT bottle and give it a try.
PYC - I guess if I'm not there he might be more willing, he has shown more interest in solids over the last day so that's good.
Druzhok - your message was so reassuring, thank you. He did sip a little yesterday but then gave me such a funny confused look I think he wondered what was going on, like you say, it will be the nursery norm for him to have a bottle of milk.

I would like to carry on feeding him at least until he is a year old especially if he is happy with a bottle at nursery and I can feed him at other times - I know I will miss it when he doesn't want to be BF anymore but also want him to grow up and be more independent - its a fine balance eh?

You're all very kind to post - you've made me feel much more relaxed about it all - have a lovely weekend x

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JetLi · 13/08/2010 22:16

Onion - can I just add something? Admittedly DD was a bit older when she went to nursery but still a committed breastfeeder, and I have to say that the first feed at teatime after a day at nursery is just a joy. She gets so giddy when the knockers come out and there definitely is something in the "reconnecting with baby" theory. Before baby I used to wind down after a days work with a red wine & a couple of silk cut - half an hour's snuggly boob is infinitely preferable & has 10 times the calming effect on me Smile

tryingtobemarypoppins2 · 13/08/2010 22:37

Onion - If you do use a tommee tippee bottle the teats that worked best for us were the X flow, varied flow they are called, much more like breast feeding. Stay away from slow flow, fast flow etc. Good luck!

www.tommeetippee.co.uk/product/closer_to_nature_easi-vent_variflo_teats_x_2/

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