is it possible

[blondiep14]

to never give DS formula, without expressing, and going back to work when he is 9months old??

I have notions of feeding him in the morning and night when i am back at work, but are they realistic? will he need more milk than this? Will I have to express or give formula?

Based on the basic info you have given here, blondie, yes, it is possible.

You will be uncomf. full at work though, at least at first, and may need to find a place and a time to express because of this.

If he has plenty of solids and can manage a cup of water, and his solids include dairy, then when he's a tiny bit older he can start having cups of ordinary milk - no need for formula.

Some women manage to bf more often at weekends, but they do tend to have fuller breasts Monday and Tuesday....

Hope you get lots of experiences here to give you some ideas and support.

I went back when ds was 11 months old, carried on feeding him 3 times a day when I was at home and twice a day when I worked. I worked Tues, Weds and Thurs and yes, did find that I was a bit uncomfortable on Tues!

Tink was cutting back her feeds then. At ten months she was only allowed one feed a day because she was biting so badly and nothing would stop her (found out it was because she was drinking from a straw and biting it to stem the flow which she carried over. As soon as I started pinching the straw she stopped biting )

It's not unheard of for a baby to wait until mum comes home to BF and make up for it when she's home.

Thanks, that's good to know.

Hopefully he'll be ok and have plenty of solids...
I will be out the house 12 hours so really he does need to be ok sans bm for that long and not starve!!
And I would happily bf more the 4 days I am home, so long as that didn't make the work days harder for him...

I'm planning on working Tues, Weds and Thurs also. I guess the level of discomfort will dictate whether or not i express! I know work do provide a room so it can be done if needs be, just really putting the feelers out as to whether or not it seems a do-able plan from DS's point

I will be going back to work when ds is 8 months old, and planning to express at work, but only the minimum I can get away with.
I was thinking that maybe before I go back to work, try to give him EBM during what will be his nursery hours, to see how much he'll take and be happy with or will he just want bfing simply because I am available? I just worry that it's another adjustment he'll have to make when he goes, i.e. not only is mummy abandoning him all day (coz that will be what it feels like!) but he has to take his milk from a bottle instead of a lovely warm boobie?

I'm hoping he will have dropped a lot of feeds by then so I can just top up his solid intake with a feed in the morning & nighttime, maybe more on non-work days...

Ideally i would like for him never to have formula, and for me never to have to express

my ds at that age would not drink from a bottle at all (formula or expressed). He happily drank water from a cup, and I fed him when I was at home with hime.

I did only work 3 days per week though.

I'm only going back 3 days also.

Cups are fine with me, i can then flog all bottle paraphanalia unused on tintrnet !!