Hi, I have an opportunity to go on holiday for a long weekend (4 days) without my DS who will be 9 months old at that point (currently 2 and a half months)
He is currently exclusively bf. I am a bit ignorant of how things tend to work after you have weaned children. A lot of mums I know tend to at least use some formula by this stage or have completely given up bfing.
Basically my question is: if I am still breastfeeding by then, could I take a pump with me on holiday and pump while I am out there to keep up my supply? Would this work? Or would my supply not dry up in 4 days anyway? And if I didn't pump would I get really engorged and uncomfortable (I would be doing lots of exercise while out there, so being uncomfortable would not be good). And how often would I need to pump, if I need to (I am guessing a similar amount to how often he would feed?)
Basically I don't want to go away if it would mean enforced end of breastfeeding, as it seems very selfish to stop just because of a holiday I would want to take for me!
By the way DH will be looking after DS and is happy to do so, and so I don't have any other worries about going away as I am sure DH will look after him fantastically.