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8mo wont take milk in the mornings, does it matter?

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olivo · 17/04/2010 09:23

In the past couple of weeks, i've moved DD onto bottles during the day as i am returning to work on monday. She won't take any milk, bottle or bf when she wakes up at 6.30/7ish but will eat breakfast. she wont normally have milk till past 9. does it matter? i've tried to work out a routine as nursery have asked for it, but tbh, she fed and napped on demand until this week!
am i ok to send her to nursery only having had food?

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ImSoNotTelling · 17/04/2010 09:29

i think that's fine. My 9mo isn;t having a BF first thing any more - in fact she's only having one in the afternoon, one at bedtime and then unfortuantely one in the middle of the night.

it's what they get overall that matters, not when they get it, and if she's having a good breakfast she will be fine at nursery.

Seona1973 · 17/04/2010 09:30

Does she have some sort of drink with breakfast? As long as she has the equivalent of around 20oz of milk per day it doesnt really matter how many bottles she has or when they are. Will nursery be able to give her the milk when she gets there?

olivo · 17/04/2010 17:35

sorry, internet went down. she won't take water from a sippy cup though i have started to make tiny progress with a doidy; hopefully at nursery they will coax her into taking more. i hope nursery will be able to give her milk within the first hour of her being there, but sometimes she wont take it till past 11, which i know will interfere with lunch.
I hope that when i stop feeding her at night, she might want it more in the morning. she does have milk on her cereal but not much as we are BLW and it makes them too soggy to hold!

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ImSoNotTelling · 18/04/2010 19:08

Honestly I think it will be fine olivio.

Talk to the nursery and find out what their routine is, tell them that she likes a drink mid-morning but not with breakfast, I am sure they will be happy to offer a bottle. And if she's thirsty she'll drink it.

Even if she doesn't she's not going to get terribly ill from dehydration if she goes without a drink for a few hours, honestly.

She will be fine.

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