Anxious about leaving bf baby in crèche

[Whirliwig72]

Please help me think this through. I've been offered a free place on a fabulous four week self development course with crèche spaces for my two Ds ( 3 yrs and 8 months). I've accepted the place but I'm anxious about leaving the little one as it will be from 10am to 3pm each day and he is ebf and has never taken a bottle of formula or expressed milk before.
The course is in the same building as the crèche so they could just call me to come and feed him ( he would normally have two feeds during this time) but that would mean me missing about an hour of the course each day. Alternatively I could express and hope for the best ( no idea how much tho!). Am I being a wimp even worrying about leaving him?

Just to add I could probably take him in to the course with me if I pushed for it but it would probably be a bit distracting for everyone and not exactly encouraged.

Sorry another thing us that they are offering three settling in sessions next week.

they are likely to give breaks.

I think you'll be fine.
explain to the course tutor what times you normally feed and ask if they can arrange breaks at those times.
if they can't, then just apologise but you'll have to feed the baby at those times, but you'll sit near the door so you don't disturb anyone when you go in and out.

Thanks nickel - that sounds like a great idea - id much rather bf than ebf him if poss as it has the added benefit of making him nap.

Agree with nickel. Finding a way to feed him while there sounds much easier for both of you than getting him used to a different way of feeding.
Good luck

I would try EBM in a free flow cup rather than a bottle though, my DD found this much easier.

What time is the creche actually open from & to? And how is your DS taking to weaning? Over the next four weeks, he may well drop one of those feeds as its replaced by lunch. Could you get to creche at 9.30, bf him then leave him with his lunch & some ebf & then bf him again as soon as the course finishes?
As other posters have said, there's bound to be a lunch break at some point for the people on your course so could you bf him then?

Is there a reason you couldn't feed him in the room with the course going on and then return him to the creche? Babies engaged in drinking milk from a breast generally aren't that dirsruptive or noisy in my experience

How far away is the course? I've found in the last couple of weeks DS (nearly 9m) has dropped feeds in the day and now mostly only has one during the day. Today I fed him at 11am and then not until bedtime (7.30ish) without him complaining. He eats solid food well and he had a yoghurt after his dinner. You might want to start spacing feeds out - at this stage it shouldn't affect supply and if you want to offer them more frequently at weekends and after the course I am sure he will accept them!

Thanks everyone - some brilliant tips here!

You could always try and find out the times for your course and re jiggle babies routine to fit in with the breaks :) use the weeks before to slowly bring feeds back / forwards so it's not a shock when u start :)