Going back to work - no feeds during the day

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DD is just over 7 months and breastfed. I will be going back to work part-time in 7 weeks when she'll be just shy of 9 months.
DD is a bottle refuser, she won't take EBM as she can't figure out the bottles. She takes water out of a cup and has just this week learnt to us a free-flow TT sippy cup. TBH I haven't tried her with EBM in the sippy cup as I don't know if it's worth the hassle.

On the HV advice i'm planning on just feeding her at wake up before she goes to childcare and then after work when I pick her up. She can then BF during the evening and night and anytime on my days off.
Will this work? I know the HV said it will be ok but it would be nice to hear from other people who have done similar.

I'm starting to think maybe I should start expressing and building up a supply in the freezer so I can leave her some to try have from the cup. But it's just a faff expressing, especially as when I've expressed before the BM has tasted funny really quickly (high lipase content?) so I would have to scold any EBM. I don't want to stress her out trying to get her to feed if I don't have to and i'd like to avoid formula if I can.

The plan is for her to have plenty of water and food with milk/dairy in during the day to tide her over. Does this sound ok?

I Did this with my DD when I went back to work when she was 8/9 months old. I didn't plan to, she just wouldn't take formula or expressed milk from a bottle (even if I could have expressed enough which I couldn't!). The nursery tired to give formula to her but she refused it.

She is also a fussy eater so wouldn't even eat much during the day. She'd have a huge feed in the morning and then another as soon as we got home at 6pm (she would be screaming for it by this point!). She is fine and now a very healthy size/weight (she is 2.8).

I took yogurts into nursery for her as she would eat them. After a year, she started drinking cows milk so this helped as well. I bf her up till she was 2 and worked full time so she just got used to another routine.

Im sure you will be fine with this arrangement. Good luck!

If she's drinking plenty of water and eating dairy then she should be fine.
If you are doing 2/3 feeds a day though, your supply will drop off and you are unlikely to be able to feed her anytime she wants on the weekends, plus it's confusing for her.
My DD1 had to go cold turkey at 8 months as wouldn't take milk in any form [had to keep up her fluids by spooning yoghurt and milk into her for some time] from any receptacle. We got through it and the HV was fine with her getting her calcium from foods.
DD2 [8 months] is a bottle refuser but after a nasty cold and loss of appetite is now rethinking her dislike of formula.
Personally I don't think I would bother expressing for a nursery sippy cup unless you are happy that she will be supervised and it won't be wasted.
Why are you avoiding formula out of interest? Allergy? Principle?

I didn't find feeding during the day on days off was confusing for DS1, I think he'd have found it weirder if he'd mooched for a feed and I'd refused him - obviously on the days he was in creche, I wasn't there to "ask". Though admittedly I was expressing once a day in work, so there wasn't the supply issue.

My DD is just shy of 11 mo and I've just returned FT. She will take a couple of oz of formula at nursery (a new thing) but that's it milk wise, plus water and food.

I feed morning/evening and night and at the weekend. No supply issues at the weekend when she is just BF and I don't seem be getting engorged during the day. Seems to work for us.

I work full time with an 8.5 month old. I send him in with two beakers of ebm which he sometimes drinks, otherwise he seems to fill up on food. He will feed before I leave in the morning and when I get home.

I do express twice a day at work so I don't see a loss of supply at the weekend