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Going back to work - will this work?

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charlottery · 15/02/2012 22:12

I'm going back to work in a few weeks, dd2 will be 8 months by then. She's been fully breast fed, and now has 3 meals too. She has a feed in the morning, then a big feed before her afternoon nap, and another pre-bed feed, then I dream feed her at 11ish. She also has a few quick feeds in the day, but they're really more for comfort than anything else I think.
I work 3.5 days, but they're long, and I may not be home for bedtime. I'm really keen to keep feeding though. Do you think the supply will hold up if I do the morning feed and dream feed when I'm working long days, and all the feeds on the other days?
I've never managed to express very much, so I wasn't keen to try and express enough for the other feeds, as I think I'll just get stressed (and I'm happy for her to have formula for those) but I wondered if I should express when I would normally have fed just to try and keep the supply up.
I never thought I'd be worried about this, having struggled to feed dd1 and going onto formula, but I'm loving it this time and really don't want to stop!

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MigGril · 16/02/2012 08:42

You may need to express at the time's you would normaly feed in order to feel comftable. Some women actually find hand expressing more productive and easier then using a pump so this is also worth a try.

At 8months your supple is quit well established and unless you run into problems with missing feeds many women can offten carry on doing morning and night feeds while working. some even manage to BF while not at work as well.

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