***************new job wont be able to bf on my dinner hour any more should i stop???????*****************

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my daughter is being blw and is still bf she is 7 and a half months old and has the odd bottle of formula shes really good with a bottle so that wont be to much of a change as she also uses cups no probs but.......

with my new job i'll be away from her for at least 10 hours most days and my mum was able to bring her to my old work place but this wont be possible because its such a long way from where she lives and she doesnt drive and neither do i i will be able to express at work but this was incredibly hard an yeiled hardly an oz last time i tried

so would i be better off stopping bfeeding all together or just do night feeds

please help im really confused

tia

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Try expressing. You might find you get better at it as time goes on. It will help to keep your milk supply going too so you can continue to do the night/early morning feeds.

so keep bfing and express whilst at work ?

wat if i cant im a hairdresser and obviously i dont want to for e.g get behind be half an hour late for my dinner break and be all swollen up and leaking or that engorged i can't express which happened last time and wil my breast milk be ok in a fridge then a cool pack til i get home?

sorry to be a pita

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Are you working every day? What time are you leaving and when do you get back? Is she on solids - if so, how many meals a day?

At 7 months my babes were on 3 meals a day therefore did not have milk with all of them.

Depending on when you leave you could either BF or leave EBM. Lunch and teatime would not need milk and you could BF in the evening and bedtime.

You would not necessarily need to express at work unless you were really ful. When you are full it doesn't take long and you could easily keep it in the fridge and take it home. Should be workable IME.

right firstly thank you for your reply mears

ok she has three blw kinda of meals everyday toast banana and a yoghurt for bekkie a lumpy purreed kinda meal or steamed veg or slivers of fruit for dinner and a steamed veg and a yoghurt for tea but she has a feed about 8 10 12 2 4 6 8 10 12 etc so i have a very high milk supply have tried giving her less breast milk but she screams and screams and she has water thru the day too

i'll be leaving her 2.30-9 10-9 8.30-5.30 every week eg wed afternoon thur afternoon saturday all day she's quite happy to have formula milk or ebm but cant get alot of unless i go ages between feeds

i know she only haves about 3-4 oz each feed when i leave her sometimes 5 all day

hth

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I disliked expressing at work and found it hard to find the time to do it - despite feeling ready to explode sometimes so stopped fairly quickly. (Feelings of being ready to explode get less as your body adapts to what's expected of it in my experience). My first son was breastfed till he chose to give it up at 13 months - mostly at night (I woke up feeling like the bride of Dracula every morning). I remember reading somewhere at the time that night feeding is key to continuing to breastfeed sucessfully when you can't feed as frequently any more because of the hormones you produce at night. About to go back to work after son no.2 - not planning on expressing at all, plan to continue breastfeeding until he sacks me. Breast milk is supposed to stay fresh for AGES with minimal fuss - La Leche League is really good on info all of this.

thank you jelly have read up what i can and they basically said same as mears

thank you girls for all your help

The 10 - 9 shift might be the hardest but to be honest I think they are workable. Feed before you go and feed when you get home. Feed as normal on days off. Express if you need to at work but you might be surprised there. I did not express as often as i fed IYSWIM?

Baby will not need the amount of feeds that you give when you are there. Don't panic about leaving milk for all those times. I would only leave milk for one meal time and leave juice/milk inbetween. HTH.