B-feeding when back at work with busy hob

[guinea36]

How possible is it?|
I'm going back in a couple of months and would like to be able to give morning and evening feeds until baby is 14 months or so but I work long hours.
Think it will help with immunity at nursery/childminders and will be comforting.
Some days I will leave the house at 8am and sometimes come back as late as 9pm. The nature of my work means realistically that expressing during the day isn't really going to be possible. I will be working four days a week.
Just wondering if anyone has done this and if so how best to make it work?

Err I meant busy job - not a busy hob!!!

How old will your baby be when you return to work. By 11 months a lot of children only have two milk feeds a day (dd only had 1)so with morning and bedtime feed your supply would just adapt.

I work ft and bf 13 month old morning and evening. He has food and formula/cows milk during the day.
Probably not quite so long as you. Most mornings feed at 6.30-7am then not until 5pm. Supply took a few weeks to regulate so had a bit of discomfort but no real issues.

I went back to work at 6 months (maybe a little later) and did morning and evening past a year. I did pump at first but never got much so stopped. I was normally home by 6.30 though. Good luck

I would gradually cut down feeds beforehand so your body gets used to it. It seems feasible you can feed every morning before work and then before bed whenever you are there. My DD is 18m and I still feed twice a day but skip bedtime feed if I go out after work. The first time I skipped a feed I felt uncomfortable by about 5am but my body adjusted. I don't ever pump.

I'm a nurse so do 13 hour shifts and in total I would be out the house between 6.45am and 21.15pm.

I webt back to work when DS was 10 months. On the days I was working I would BF him at 6am but it would then be 24 hours before I would see him again. I would express at work about 3 times and then express again when I got home.

On the days I wasn't at work I just breast fed DS as normal and he probably had about 4 feeds during his waking hours, sometimes more if he was unwell or grizzly etc.

After a few months I started cutting f down how frequently I expressed at work, then I stopped expressing g before bed and my supply soon regulated and changed to meet my needs. On some occasions I was away from DS for 48 hours but neither did I have to express because my body had simply adapted.

I continued to BF until my son was 2.5 years old so returning to work and having challenges doesn't have to mean the end of breast feeding.

I think legally work have to support your breastfeeding by make by expressing possible- longer break if needed, somewhere private and somewhere to store milk. I think it is a protected characteristic like being pregnant. Hopefully your supply will soon adjust and you won't need to pump so much.

How old will your baby be?

I refused to express a day after my son's first birthday (I was so bored with it), and I continued to feed him past 2years, with no bother about supply.

The first few weeks, I got full during the day, but it's soon settled down. For you, it might mean hand expressing off the worst, but it should level out quite soon.