Christmas night out and breastfeeding

[daniellemumof2]

I don't go out very often but have a Christmas night out coming up this weekend, but I'm worried about how I'll manage without being able to feed/express. My baby is 10 weeks old and EBF. I've expressed a few times and given her EBM in a bottle, but haven't done so for around 7 weeks, she's purely breastfed from the source.
I've thought about not going on the night out as I'm not sure if she'd even take a bottle now, but I'm also wondering how I'll cope with the discomfort of full boobs and not having a breast pump to hand. I know I could hand express when I nip to the toilet, but how often do you think I'd need to do this on a night out that'll probably last around 6 hours?
She still regularly cluster feeds too. I have frozen breastmilk in the freezer that I have expressed in preparation for this night out so there'll be enough milk, I'm just worried she won't take the bottle.
I'm also wondering if I should just stick to soft drinks too, incase I need to rush home to feed her if she does point blank refuse the bottle and then there'll be no alcohol in my milk either.

@daniellemumof2
Can you try and feed her a few bottles from now to then to see if she will take it.

[quote Babyghirl]@daniellemumof2
Can you try and feed her a few bottles from now to then to see if she will take it.[/quote]
Yeah, I can express some milk and try to feed her with it this afternoon around 4pm which is usually when she would start cluster feeding and see how we get on. Fingers crossed she will take it. My supply seems well established now so a few bottles of EBM at the weekend shouldn't diminish it at all I'm hoping.

If not she may take from someone else... dc wouldn't take breastmilk from me in bottle but would from others ....especially if I wasn't in the house....so I had to leave at first few attempts!

Could you just go out for less time?
I think in your situation I would go for 3 hours and come home and feed.
Anything else doesn't sound enjoyable for anyone. Your baby is v little, but going out would be fun.

I did a bit of this with mine - I actually had a hand pump which fitted into my bag, and I’d just spend 5 mins in the loo halfway through the evening.
I also did “pump and dump” for the feed when I got home if I’d had a couple of glasses of wine, although I think a moderate amount of alcohol is fine.
kellymom.com/bf/can-i-breastfeed/lifestyle/alcohol/

@averythinline

If not she may take from someone else... dc wouldn't take breastmilk from me in bottle but would from others ....especially if I wasn't in the house....so I had to leave at first few attempts!

Yes this sounds familiar. When I expressed a few bottles of EBM when she was around 3 weeks old, she only took it from my partner but wouldn't accept it from me. However she was a lot younger then, but I'm thinking that because she's never had a bottle since, the likelihood of her taking one now will be even less.

@trumpisagit

Could you just go out for less time? I think in your situation I would go for 3 hours and come home and feed. Anything else doesn't sound enjoyable for anyone. Your baby is v little, but going out would be fun.

Yeah I could go out for the first two hours for the meal and miss the cocktails afterwards.

[quote Tuliptulip]I did a bit of this with mine - I actually had a hand pump which fitted into my bag, and I’d just spend 5 mins in the loo halfway through the evening.
I also did “pump and dump” for the feed when I got home if I’d had a couple of glasses of wine, although I think a moderate amount of alcohol is fine.
kellymom.com/bf/can-i-breastfeed/lifestyle/alcohol/[/quote]
Thank you, I'll take a look at this to have a read through anyway as I'd like a few glasses of Buck's Fizz on Christmas Day haha

How noisy will the party be? How much noise can your baby sleep through? When DS was that age he could sleep through a bomb going off so I wouldn’t have had any qualms about taking him out past his bedtime. It depends on where you are going though - you can’t take a baby into a nightclub.

FYI you don’t really need to pump and dump unless you’re planning on getting smashed. A couple of cocktails and a glass of wine would be fine.