Starting nursery- replace formula with snacks??

[StephB55]

My girl is 10.5 months and starts nursery in less than a month. We've got a pretty solid routine at home:
7am wake and breakfast
9/9.30am 5oz bottle
9.30-11am nap
12 lunch
2/2.30pm 5oz bottle
2.30-3.45pm nap
7pm 7oz bottle and bedtime

When she goes to nursery they do snack at 10am, lunch 11.45, snack at 2pm and dinner around 4.30pm. Assuming she sleeps well (big assumption I know but she loves her sleep!!) she'll miss morning snack or if she doesn't she'll go down earlier for nap 2 and miss afternoon snack.
My question is should I sent formula in with her for them to feed her before naps if needed, or start replacing day time formula with snacks now? Is it too early? Hoping if I do breakfast and formula/milk at 7am at home she'll make it to snack at 10am ok!

Send some formula in and a bottle with her name on. Even after she has switched from milk to snacks, if she sleeps outside of snack/meal time but is obviously hungry they should still feed her. She will get her own routine at nursery and she’ll probably settle in with their routine. Our nurseries have always offered milk and snack so you’d do formula and snack as she’s too young for cows milk. I think the only downside of sending formula in is that nursery can only keep it for 4 weeks and our DC didn’t go through a full tin with a couple of bottles a day at nursery.

I'd also ask nursery what they do if a little one is sleeping at snack (or lunch!) time – ours will always keep food back for that child to offer once they are awake and ready for it. That said, for a baby, they should definitely be willing to offer a pre-nap bottle if baby is hungry and won't make it to snack time.

Yeah I think I'll do that and then I know they've got what they need, she's pretty adaptable usually but I've got her myself the days she's not in nursery so I think I'm going to have to pick up what they're doing! Did the nursery offer cows milk once old enough?

Our nursery asked us to confirm when we were happy for them to offer cows' milk – they didn't automatically offer it as just because baby was one.

Many babies actually do fine with one routine at nursery and one routine at home (and if she doesn't sleep quite enough at nursery because she's too nosy, then she may well need extra sleep on home days to catch up), so you may find you can keep whatever timings work for you at home. Mine have always had the same number of naps at both home and nursery, but we've never worried about matching timings for either sleep or food.

Nursery asked us if we were happy to offer cows milk at 1 and as no allergies we did it was fine. We have different routines for home and nursery. Nursery is quite full on, lots of learning and playing. DC wouldn’t sleep long at nursery so always caught up a bit at home. They get a bit used to eating at nursery meal times but you can push them by slight adjustments to snack time at home.