Expressed milk for 8 month old

[showtunesgirl]

I know there's the Kellymom milk calculator but that's only for 1-6 months and my DD is 8 months old.

Is it even possible to quantify how much she should be taking from a cup as I guess different babies are at different "levels" with regards weaning?

DD was looked after my husband during the mornings this week and she took about 3oz and then lost interest and just seemed happy to see me later on in the day. She's also a bit of a piggy regarding BLW so can I just trust that she will take what she needs in the future?

are you expressing all the time, or just for the weekday morning feeds?

when you're back with your DD, how regularly is she taking bf/expressed milk?

it may be that she is just taking a little expressed milk with your dp because she can feed more frequently/have more milk when back with you.

Well I was doing self-employed work this week so thought we'd give it a go. Leaving her with expressed milk won't actually happen very often but I'd just like to know round about how much approx she should be getting if I'm not around. Or is she now old enough to be ok with a bit of expressed milk and water until I get back?

Kellymom advises (on the same page as the expressing calculator):

Sometime between six months and a year (as solids are introduced and slowly increased) baby’s milk intake may begin to decrease, but breastmilk should provide the majority of baby’s nutrition through the first year. Because of the great variability in the amount of solids that babies take during the second six months, the amount of milk will vary, too. One study found average breastmilk intake to be 30 oz per day (875 ml/day; 93% of total intake) at 7 months and 19 oz (550 ml/day; 50% of total energy intake) at 11-16 months.

So maybe 30oz as a rough guide? Kellymom also says that you can take what a ff baby of the same age would take as a guide (with the caveat that they will overestimate the amount a baby needs).

Hope that helps!