Hi
I'm hoping someone can offer me some advice.
My baby girl is 10 months old, she is a lovely baby who luckily I've had no problems breastfeeding exclusively since birth.
When she was tiny I did pump and store some milk but later found out it had an enzyme in it that meant I'd have had to boil it before storing it and she wouldn't drink it.. therefore I've just fed her directly from me since then. When I've recently tried to pump, I've hardly been able to get anything out and I think it's because my baby is just much more efficient at getting milk out.
Anyway it's left me with not many options to be away from her as I've been the only one who could feed her, and since around 9 months she Is feeding only 2/3 times a day anyway (morning, occasionally afternoon feed and then bedtime).
I now have a couple of nights out coming up where it would be really useful to let someone else do her bedtime and feed. I've got a box of Kendamil 2 milk and wanted to replace her bedtime feed with this, until 12 months when she would go onto cows milk for that feed. I'd still like to give her the morning feed and then the bedtime feed would be replaced with a bottle.
Aside from feeling pretty guilty about this, I don't want to breastfeed her forever although if this goes well I'd give her her morning feed for another 6 months to a year.
Has anyone done similar? Can anyone talk me through replacing the bedtime feed with formula and how to go about this and what the potential issues will be? My baby is pretty chilled and happy and eats a lot of solids and has regularly cow milk in her food so I'm hoping she won't have any issues but any advice would be really appreciated?