will this work?

[gluttom]

dd is breast fed and 8mths and starts nursery next month when I go back to work 2 days a week and 1 day a week she will be with DH. She is BLW so doesn't eat a great deal but will takes small amounts of formula from a bottle.

At the moment she feeds 4 times a day and 2 times at night
On the days that she is at nursery 9am-6pm and i will work 11am-8pm she will have 1 morning breastfeed and then i will send 2 bottles of formula. Dh will put her to bed and I will be home at 9 so can feed her when she wakes at night

So she will miss 3 feed when I am at work. I do want to feed her still on my days off but am concerned that this won't work. Should I just start quitting breast feeding now- feel so sad and tearful

Please don't be tearful gluttom. She will be 9 months when you return and your supply will be well established. I returned to work both for two days a week with both dc and they have had some milk while I was a at work and then I've bf them when I've been at home no problem.

You might want to talk through your plan with a BFC just to put your mind at rest. Have you got the helpline numbers?

Thanks JJJ - I just love comforting her with bf and not ready to stop yet. I have the helpline number and have use them before - thanks!

No need to give up comforting her with a bf if you don't want too. She'll be fine while you are at work and will love the bfs when you are not .

DC1 refused all milk and just had solids and water while I was at work, DD would take some formula, maybe a couple of ounces while I was away but both more or less adopted a policy of "I'll just wait". Both were fine on it.