BF at 10 months - How often?

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Right, well I just interviewed a childminder and think this might be the one. So DD will be with her for 3 / 4 days a week (still to be discussed with work) when I go back to work when DD will be 3 weeks of a year.

DD is a serial bottle refuser but now at 6 months we're BLW and also trying out a Doidy cup which she is kind of getting the hang of.

As she will need a settling in period when she's 10 months and I expect to still be BF then, will she be ok without me if she's still then bottle refusing? I'? Not being naive to think that by then she should be able to cope?

How long will she be there for? Will she take a sippy cup? Is there a possibility of you getting there during lunch breaks? There are lots of different options, I'm sure things will work out :)

Well a few hours at first during the settling in period working up to full days I gather so it wouldn't be a full on thing at first.

I have five months now to get her to take milk from something other than me. She has just during the last few days started to be interested in her Doidy cup though.

She will be fine with food and juice / water. My ds is 11 months and I went back to work at the beginning of April. Ds also a bottle / cup refuser and i didnt fancy expressing at work. I am a community Macmillan nurse so the plan was that my mum would just call me if she felt he needed a feed and I would nip home. To cut a long story short, she's never called me once. If I am not there he really isn't bothered about the milk. I work 8 til 4. He likes a feed before i leave and one within an hr of me getting home. The days I am not there we feed as usual.

10 months is a lot different to 6 months. Don't panic about it, lots of babies manage without milk all day and then top up as soon as you are there. Sometimes its about you, not them actually needing to consume x amount of milk every few hours.

The amount they bf at this age seems to really vary as well (my ds is very very keen so I have read a lot of threads on this).

Using a cup / straw / waterbottle is a good skill to encourage anyway. Fruit is also good to keep them hydrated.

I went back to work full time + when littlest DD was 5 months - a bottle refuser. I fed/feed her (now 11 months) before work, when I get home and before bed. It took her about a day and a half to accept formula!

Well I think we're making some slow progress anyway. Today DD took some water from a MAM soft spout trainer cup. I'll try her on milk tomorrow too!

Just to echo the others, I haven't gone back to work yet and dd took bottles and refused once she realised what it was about 7 months.

Dd is now 9.5 months and the other week I was poorly and MIL picked dd up as I was in no fit state to look after her. Sent her with expressed milk, bottle and sippy cup and MIL knows what food to give her (BLWeaning so anything!) and she just ate her food and went without milk all day. Took a bit of water at lunch time and then when I went to pick her up about 7 hours later she just drained both boobs and was happy to see me.

Im in a sports team and play twice a week and so she is with dp for up to 2 hour each time. He has said she refuses my milk now out of the sippy cup but will take water. She just sits up and waits for me instead (no tears as such).