Breastfed baby go all day without milk at nursery

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Baby is 10 months and exclusively breastfed, however I'm not able to pump as much as she drinks.
she's having a lot less in the day now and I've been advised she'll be ok to just have food and water when she's at nursery. Just wondered if anyone else has been in this position? I was hoping to pump until she was 1 and then transition to cows milk for nursery but my freezer supply is quickly running out and I don't want to try an up my supply just to pump!
thanks.

Formula if you're unable to pump. Too early for cows milk etc

formula for nursery but you might find that she doesn't want it.

dc only had food & water during the day and then fed at home all night

She might be fine with food and water as long as she is still getting milk at home, DD is just coming up to 10 months and is only getting through 1 lot of milk during the day if I'm at work - sometimes she'll get through 180ml, sometimes only about 80ml so I could see her being ok without. She's eating lots of food and drinking water with that. She gets breastfed morning/evening/night as much as she wants!

Our first started nursery part time at that age and we used to send him in with expressed breast milk but he didn't drink it, only wanted to take a bottle from me, apparently! He was fine with just food and water, and switched to just breastfeeding morning and bedtime.

I presume LO has been on solids a while now. How much food/water will she actually eat/drink during the day? By 10 months mine was fine at childminders without milk, but he was eating like proper little meals and having water (maybe a banana mid morning; quarter sandwich/baby crisps/rice cake for lunch; fruitpot or fruit cereal bar mid afternoon). I know other children though who were a bit later getting the hang of weaning and were still just having small nibbles of snacks at 10 months. The certainly needed a bottle or breastfeed 2 or 3 times in the day.

My 8 month old wouldn't take a bottle so would go all day without milk at nursery. He just made it up morning and evenings. He's now 6ft tall!!

She'll most likely be fine with water and food, so you could bf morning and evening and pump for some day time drinks if she wants them. Is she offered milk in a cup (rather than bottle?) My own babies were also exclusively bf and younger than yours when I went back to work; they were never interested in a bottle but would drink from a cup at several months old. And if you need to, use formula for some drinks. She'll be on cow's milk soon anyway

I went back to work when DD was 9 months. She didn't drink from a bottle and only sips from a cup. She had food and some water between 8 and 6. She then fed when I was at home, which was about 5 feeds a day (morning, 6pm, 8pm, 2x night feeds). I was told she needed to have 2-3 milk feeds a day (breastfeed or formula). Can you give formula if you run out of breastmilk?

How long does she usually go without milk? At that age some are fine with no milk in the day and some aren’t. If yours isn’t, try her with formula and they can give her a bottle at nursery when she needs. She’s too young for cows milk but it could be distressing for her if she hasn’t got any milk and she wants it.

Thanks everyone.
She is a great eater so I don't feel like she needs the milk to fill her up, I just don't want her to be upset mid afternoon because she'd usually have some.
She has breastmilk morning, evening and whenever she wants it in the night.
I think I'll try her without and if she is getting upset I'll have to use formula for her nursery milk.

Mine wouldn't touch any type of milk coming from anything other than my boob, he was in nursery from 8.5 months. Wasn't super upset once he settled in but they had to consistently offer.water in a beaker. He was fine but as a PP said - fed all night to make up for it!

My little boy didn’t go to nursery until 2, but he stopped breastfeeding in the daytime at 11 months - all babies are different, but it might only be a couple of weeks until she would stop on her own accord anyway. (Btw he is still breastfeeding morning and bedtime age 2)

DS2 went to nursery from 10 months and
I sent him with formula which he didn’t drink as I think nursery was too interesting so I just fed him morning and night which he was was quite happy with and dropped milk during the day. As above he’s now a 6ft 16YO

Are they going to Nursery full time?

At 10mo she will be fine with breastmilk first thing and then after nursery and last thing at night. If you can express a small amount for mid-morning that’s helpful. I was in the same situation with my eldest dc.

It depends if you think she will nap at nursery without a bottle, and if she will drink enough water (neither of mine were great at drinking from a cup at that age so I think they tea needed a bottle or they would have been dehydrated), if you think she will manage then no bottle during the day is fine. Otherwise one bottle of formula a day at nursery isn't a big deal.

Sounds similar to my DD. she started nursery at 10 months and was extremely hit and miss with a bottle. We quickly got to morning and night feeds only, and she stopped feeding altogether before a year.

My eldest went on a nursing strike at 10 months and never fed again - but also refused a bottle. 🙄 She drank no milk at all until just after her birthday when she finally decided to start drinking cow's milk from a cup. She was fine.

Youngest also started nursery at about 9 months and refused a bottle, she breastfed morning and evening and was also fine.

It'll be grand.

Both my sons were complete bottle refuses no matter what anyone tried, and also both allergic to dairy, but they survived my return to work. I fed them in the morning, evening and during the night and they had solids and a bit of water cup during the day. I did pump once at work as I got uncomfortable otherwise, and this usually got mixed with solids as it was a complete waste to try to get either of them to drink it. They weren't great drinkers of water either until gone 12 months so I used to make sure they got plenty of wet solids such as fruit purees, dairy free yoghurts etc.
I'm sure it would have made life a lot easier if they'd taken milk during the day, but it was perfectly do-able without, and in the great scheme of things that awkward stage was a very short period really.