Advice on continuing bf 10mo dd when I start uni or not?

[Rach1523]

I'm starting university next week, and also work part time (one day and night a week), and am wondering whether to continue bf my 10mo daughter or not. She has had a bottle of formula for her bedtime feed since 7 months as I found it helped her sleep much longer at night, so I feed her in the morning and once or twice during the day. I can't express enough milk for her feeds during the day so it will have to be formula then, so basically I would just be feeding her in the morning and if she wakes in the night, which is becoming more frequent lately. Is it worth continuing with this? Part of me would like to, but also (selfishly) I would like to have undisturbed sleep, and dh will see to her in the night if I have to be up in the morning.
Is one feed a day after 10 months of huge benefit? Any advice please

Try it, and see what happens! There are lots of non-nutritional benefits to continuing breastfeeding. You could maybe even switch the bedtime feed back to a breastfeed - a lot could have changed in 3 months?

You could just do the morning feed. You still give her immunity/help to things that you both pick up on a day to day basis. I have no idea why my DD (nearly 10m) didn't catch norovirus when my entire family (and all my siblings and my mum) had it. I was vomiting whilst feeding her. I can only think it was breastfeeding that protected her.

I quite like the idea of switching the bedtime feed to breast again, but not sure I have much milk at that time of day, guess it would pick up again though. Another problem could be that as I'm doing a nursing course I have to go on 6 week placements, which will be shift type hours, so can't say if I'll be there morning/night on a regular basis. Unfortuanatly, I think it's going to make more sense to stop

If you don't want to make the decision to stop, then don't. It might not work out - the shift hours and the change of routine might be too much, and your daughter might decide she's not interested any more. But she might be fine with breastfeeding when you're around, and bottlefeeding when you're not.

any feeds are beneficial, so go for it if you can!

I did one feed for about the last three months and think it was good for both of us!

partly as it meant that we didn't stop because of an external factor (for me work) and instead because he chose not to. (though with DS1 we stopped because I got pregnant again when he wa 11 months and I found it too knackering!)

Thanks for the advice everyone, think I'm just going to feed her once a day or whenever it's possibleand see how we go!