Hi folks,
I’m hoping you can help! I am returning to work in a months time. My baby is currently 8 months old, is predominantly breastfed but happily takes a bottle, has taken to solids.
at the moment he does 6 feeds per day and eats solids 3 x per day. Night weaned himself a month ago.
I am hoping to continue morning and bedtime feeds when I return to work, which leaves 4 feeds currently to replace in the daytime. My partner will be off on leave until he starts nursery at a year.
I went to work yesterday and we had a trial run, with morning and evening BFs and then he drank 1x150ml post breakfast, 1x100ml post nap 1, 1x50ml post lunch and 1x150ml post nap 2. A mix of formula and expressed breast milk. He also ate breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I feel like the sensible thing to do would be to consolidate the bottles a bit but I’m not sure how or what quantities to offer? The post lunch bottle looks the most superfluous, so should we drop that one and offer a bigger bottle post nap 2? Should we offer snack in its place? I’m aware up to age one he should still be getting most nutrients through milk/formula.
if anyone has any advice or a feeding routine that has worked for you I would love to hear from you!
thanks for reading