Going back to work, but my baby wont feed at nursery - help!

[loonicorn]

I go back to work next week, so my dd (7.5mths) has been having some trial sessions at nursery. At home, her normal routine is:
4am - BF
7am - BF and breakfast
10am - 7-8oz FF
12 noon - solids+sips from beaker milk/water
2pm - 7-8oz FF
4-5pm solids +sips from beaker
7pm - BF
She has been in this routine for about a month, no probs, but at each occasion at nursery, when she has been due a FF, she has taken at most 1oz. She has taken her solids well. I have no worries about the nursery - the staff are lovely and they have said she has been really happy there.When i go back to work, i will be dropping her off at 8 and picking her up at 3.30 so she will have both FF there. Has anyone else had this problem and did it settle? Am i worrying for no reason? Sorry for the long post, but really don't want to go back to work anyway - only going back for three months - and this is making me stress out even more.

I am a childminder and i recently started looking after a little boy of 9 months, he was breastfed and a few weeks before mum started him on bottles of formula he took them fine for her but not me he would eat his solids but pushed the bottles away. i perservered and 4 weeks on he now takes them for me too. Hope this helps.

I care for a 9 month old, who has FF with meals (I try to give solids first, but she won't always have it that way round). She has 27oz total per day.

I am wondering if your DD is needing the FF's at the times you've given, or that she is having more milk than she needs. As you BF, hard to know how much she has at those feeds, but I would presume that she feeds until she's had enough - so is getting quite a bit.

Could the 10am be dropped (as you BF at breakfast), and 2pm pushed back so that it is with (or shortly after) lunch.
As you pick up at 3.30, you can then BF shortly after tea (and if necessary top-up at bedtime).
If nursery finds that your DD can't go that long between feeds, perhaps they could do a top-up feed (of say 4oz) around 10am.

Is your DD used to FF? If not, could you express milk for nursery to use?

When I first started childminding I looked after a 5 month old and had exactly the same problem you lo seems to be having. For the first week or so he didn't want to be held to have his bottle he was fine the rest of the day but as soon as it was bottle time it was like he remembered that he wasn't at his house. I found that holding him and distracting him with a rattle while he had his bottle worked really well as he was more focussed on that than who was holding him. Maybe you could ask the nursery to try something like this, also ask them where your lo gets fed if it is in a room with lots going on she might be more interested in that or if the nursery is short staffed she could be picking up on the fact that whoever is feeding her is not relaxed as has hundred other things to do after the feed and thinking about those. Don't know if I have been any help but hope so