Wedding day worries with EBF baby - HELP!!

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Looking for some advice - am getting married in a couple of weeks time and my EBF DD is nearly 11 months. I chose my dress some time ago thinking that she would probably not be feeding much in the day by now (DS was just on morning and bedtime feeds at 10mths) but she is still very much a milk monster! She eats well and has water with mealtimes but still has quite a few short milk feeds throughout the day. I can not feed her in my wedding dress without un-lacing the whole back so not v.convienient at all!

Have been trying to express some milk for the day but don't seem to be getting more than about an oz at a time. She wont drink formula - tried some of the little cartons and she is not impressed by that! Is it too young to try a bit of cow's milk? (I know guidelines are 12mths, she will be 11mths 1wk on the day) Does anyone have any other ideas that I coud try??? Really don't want her to be upset and clingy - want us both to enjoy the day and not spend half our time in another room!!

Cow's milk won't do her any harm for a day at 11 months. My DD preferred it fridge-cold, worth trying in advance what she will take to best in terms of temperature etc. DD wasn't impressed with formula generally, but I have found Cow & Gate is the sweetest and therefore the one she was most willing to try. She wouldn't touch SMA.

If worst happens and you need to keep taking off your dress to feed her, get 2 people to help you and the whole rigmarole will be over in 15 minutes. Don't stress about it and ruin your day. You never know, she might be so distracted by everything going on and all the different people, faces and noises that she forgets about milk and isn't as frequent at feeding that day anyway.

Have a lovely day and don't worry about it, a few short feeds during the day with 2 able assistants to make the un-lacing quick & simple and you're sorted.

Thanks for your replies, unfortunately I only have a couple weeks not months, but think I will try and express as much as possible and try her with cows milk as well - then maybe on the day she will cope with a combination of the two! And if I need to feed her, then I shall get all hands on deck to help as suggested!

Hi, I got married when DD was just 8mths. I took 12oz of expressed milk with me but she only drank 5oz. DD upped her solids on that day and had plenty of water. I did get out of my dress to feed her at 9pm then my bridesmaid laced me back in.

I was worried beforehand as DD loves to feed often but coped fine on the day so don't worry.

Enjoy your day!

Honestly? For one day I would not worry at all about cow's milk. Provided she is drinking plenty of other fluids, I also wouldn't worry too much about things like biscuits to distract her from a milk temper rather than necessarily forcing a 'breast feed replacement' on her.

She'll be fine with cow's milk. Cooked cows milk is fine from 6 months so if you're really worried boil some up and then cool it down. In the last couple of weeks you've got before the wedding you could try cutting down her daytime feeds to just one before her lunchtime nap.