Expressing - anyone still expressing at work for a baby over 10 months?

[popsycalindisguise]

ds2 is 10 months and I express at lunch time for him....

I was wondering when to stop? It hadnt even occurred to me

Anyone have any experience of expressing for older babies?
Thanks

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Thanks Tipex
on a good day, ds2 will take his bottles but sometimes he doesnt......
Anyone else expressed at worked for older babies?
It hadnt really occurred to me to stop....
He cold have formula when he is away from me I suppose. but I have a bizarre mental block thing about doing that....

i'd carry on till he's 12m at least popsy. i expressed for dd till she was 17m old and then i stopped work. HOWEVER if you want to stop then do. feed in the am before school and when you get home and then water in between and he'll be fine

I am fine with expressing still.......gives me a break from the shouting mobs and staffroom politics and makes me sit down for 25 minutes
just wondering

I did, Popsy, but I found it got harder to express what he needed and I topped DS's EBM up with cows milk from about 10.5m. He had a mixture till he was one (predominantly EBM), then was breastfed when I was with him till he was nearly 17mo and self-weaned because I was pg. He sometimes has some cows milk now, but prefers yoghurt and is a total cheese fiend.

I will jst keep going
I need to get out of this mind block abotu still sterilising evry blasted thing thogh

Hot rinse is all i ever did for my pump

i know......
so why cant I bring myself to do it

i did til a year old with dd3. after that i just couldn't be bothered to express any more even though i carried on feeding her at home. it was getting harder to express by then, not sure why, maybe she was drinking less milk as she ate more solids.

and did your supply jst adjust in that when you were at work you just fed in the morning anfd evening but when at home you fed int the day too?

I'm hoping to go to a year. Baby will be 8 months when I go back. We shall see. She won't take a bottle yet so don't see any point (for me) switching to formula.

my supply was already dropping so i was only getting about 3 oz when expressing at midday instead of the 8oz i had been getting a few months before. maybe cos she was eating lots of solids by then.

so the supply adjusted rather easily to not expressing at midday on work days. it made things quite a lot easier stopping trying to express at that stage.

Depends how much you feed him when you are at home - if you are only say fedding 3 times per day you could probably drop the expressing and just feed when you are with him.

You might like to continue until 12 months and then you can go straight over to cows milk and not bother with formula at all.

But really - as long as you are happy doing it then it is good for him.

do you have a dishwasher ? If you wash everything in that it should be fine without needing to sterilise - breast milk has anitbacterial properties so is much less of a risk than formula anyway.

do you have a dishwasher ? If you wash everything in that it should be fine without needing to sterilise - breast milk has anitbacterial properties so is much less of a risk than formula anyway.

oops !

have dishwasher yes
i need to free myself dont i?