expressing milk when back at work - any tips?

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I'm going back to work next month, my ds3 will be 13 months and I will probably need to express milk during my working day, if only for comfort. I would aim to store what I express, to send with him to his child-minder another day.

Does anyone have tips about storage etc?

toppest tip is you don't have to if you don;t want to - from 12m he can have cows' milk during the day and you can just bf when you're with him. Your supply will settle down after a week or so (take lots of breast pads).

if you do want to, what worked for me was a Ameda Lactaline, Axifeed bottles, the tearoom fridge and a coolbag with a freezy block.
I went back when dd was 7m so pumped to avoid giving formula

Is your work close to your childminder? If so you might find it easier to pop in and breast-feed during your lunch break. I found that easier than expressing when my ds started nursery at nine months and still refused a bottle. I also started dropping his feeds, once he turned one, to one first thing in the morning, one middle of the day, and one before bed. Best of luck, and good on you for breast-feeding for the last 13 months.

thanks for advice. I hadn't expressed for ds1 and 2 on return to work but have been a bit uncomfortable this time, put up with it first day and was at a conference yday - the reception staff at the hotel let me use a room. Haven't found anywhere to express at main work yet though. Don't think I will do it for long as he is a year and can have cow's milk as you say. I found last time that my supply when down quite a lot when I stopped daytime feeds and ds2 slept poorly then until weaned so was hoping maybe to avoid this. Although clearly he is old enough to eat lots of solids too

I went back when DS was 12months and I expressed at lunchtimes for the first couple of weeks but found I soon adjusted and stopped bothering. He wasn't too keen on drinking the EBM anyway and it seemed a waste to throw it away.

He still wants a feed as soon as I get home though