Expressing at work with lipase problem

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Anyone with experience of this?

Basically I go back to work in May, and am starting to think logisitics. I have been keeping me head in the sand thinking she might feed less often by then, but she's not giving up any feeds yet, and she's 9 months! (Feeds every 2 hours day and night, despite being on 3 meals a day plus occasional snack)

Anyway, I'm a teacher so potentially will have 10mins or so at 11am breaktime, plus half an hour at lunch time 1.45 to express (No idea where yet but that's another issue). I will have access to the communal staffroom microwave (which is minging).

My DD will not currently accept my breastmilk if it's more than about 30min - 1 hour old, or if it's be refridgerated or frozen. I think it smells bad after a couple of hours in a fridge, and certainly tasted disgusting to me by then. So I'm assuming it's an excess lipase problem.

Can I feasibly heat treat expressed milk in a microwave? Should I in a shared disgusting one? Will I have time, or will she just have to cope between 7.15am and 4pm with no bfs - on current schedule this will be probably 5 out of her 13 bfs a day....

Thanks!

I think she'll cope. She'll probably make up for it at night (but part of that will be missing you).

At 9 months, DS first dropped a feed and got established onto 3 meals a day. So she may well ramp up the solids (with gentle encouragement from you) and you can aim to replace some feeds with snacks and water.

Thanks for the replies. She does drink water from a sippy cup with meals just fine on her own, and from a doidy cup with help. She just wants breastfeeding as well!

Should I start cutting down/encouraging fewer bfs from now?

Totally on demand, although if she forgets and I'm getting uncomfortable, I offer - so I suppose I could stop the offering bits at least.... doesn't happen most days though

Yup that makes sense and certainly very doable.... :)

Thanks.

My brain seems to have departed on maternity leave - I blame never having more than 2 hours sleep in a row for 9 months. No idea how I'll cope with classes of kids on this amount of sleep..

Secondary...

I agree with the others that she'll be ok without milk during the day at that age. However, if you do end up expressing at work for whatever reason, this site describes a method to scald EBM using a bottle warmer . I've not tried it myself, but thought it was a clever idea when I read about it.

Thanks for the link... that looks like a lot of hassle though - I will definitely not have time to express, do all that, grab a drink and go to the loo in the meagre time allocated... (actually, when teaching without the whole expressing lark I often don't have time to grab a drink of water and go to the loo.....)

I went back to work when my DD was 10 months and she would never, ever take a bottle. She was absolutely fine-took liquids from a cup much more easily if it wasn't me offering. She would pretty much launch herself at me the minute I picked her up, demanding a feed-so much so that a couple times I fed her before we even left the nursery- but I think it was more a comfort thing than a need for nourishment.