Exclusively breastfeeding mums

[Hope54321]

Exclusively breastfeeding mums, when were you able to leave your LO with someone else. My LO is 5 months and I’ve only left him twice for about 10 minutes to go to the local shop.

I started doing 6 hour kit days once a week when she was 10 months old. She refused to have any EBM and used to just eat more solid food and drink water while I was gone

DC1 was4 weeks when I left him with MIL with a bottle of expressed milk for a couple of hours.
DC2 must have been 6 months at least before I first left him with someone else.
DC3 was 8 days when I left him for an hour, and 3 weeks when I left him for 3.5 hours.

When my son was nine months.

I could possibly have left him with people when he was younger than that but I just didn’t want to.

When he was 4 months old I left him with my IL’s for 1.5 hours (who live on the same street) and it was unbearable.

First baby: 7 months when I went back to work. Left her for 4 hours at a time and breastfed her at lunch time. She was a bottle refuser and liked to be held and fed (and cried) a lot. She settled quickly with the childminder but wouldn't take a bottle from her either so I kept up the lunchtime breastfeeds till she was 1.

Second baby: left her with my husband whilst I went to the shop when she was a few days old. She's 5 weeks and we're going to try her with an expressed bottle next week. She's much more relaxed and settled than her older was so we're hoping she'll take a bottle so she can be left with or go out with her dad sometimes. I'm not going back to work as quick this time so we won't push the bottle if she doesn't take to it.