BLW and trying to drop a milk feed!

[yetihed]

Hello all you BLW-ers.

DS is 8 mo and loves his food. He has:
7am- breast milk
8am- breakfast (fairly small)
10am-snack, water and cuddle (used to be milk feed)
11.30-lunch
1- BM
4-BM
6- dinner
7- BM

The problem is he is kicking up a stink most of the morning and I'm sure it's coz I've dropped the milk feed. Have tried a bigger snack but he loses interest.
Do I persevere or put the milk feed back? I need him to have dropped the am feed and the lunch feed by September when I go back to work, and I don't want to give him formula. My original thinking was I'd start now so he had plenty of time to get used to losing this one before he also lost the lunch feed but I'm worrying I've made the wrong choice.

Anyone have any experience of this?

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september is ages away

dd is 10m and still likes a milk snack (only a couple of oz) 10am/2pm/4pm as well as big feeds morning and evening

no chance of expressing at work?

(although in Sept he'll be nearly 12m and could have cows' milk in a cup at 10am)

I guess you're right about September, Mrs B. I'm just flapping, probably. I've never managed to get into the expressing thing- lack of patience, I think. Nothing ever seems to come out!!

yetihead - DS was 11 months when I went back to work (part time) I fed him on demand until I went back, didn't express and it seemed to work fine. Was a little full on the first few days but DS was cool with not having milk when I wasn't around.

That's reassuring, cowgirl. Perhaps I'll just leave the poor boy alone!!!