Milk at 10 months?

[Lola's Mummy]

How much milk does your 10 months old have in the day time?

Lola will be almost 10 months when i go back to work but we will hopefully still be breast feeding. I will be at work for 8 hours 3 days a week do you think she will want milk in that time?

Just wanting to know as i haven't got any stored in the freezer

 

[Redshoes]

Isaac currently has anything from between 10-20oz but he's not 10months yet, and he's not BF, and I do know other LO's have a lot less and others more, not that that helps, sorry Very best wishes

 

[Lola's Mummy]

Thanks Redshoes

Sorry i don't know how much that really is as i don't know how many oz they have in each bottle. I'm guessing around 3 bottles?

What times of the day does Isaac have his milk?

 

[valentine]

Hi Lola's Mummy,

DD is 8 months and currently has:-

Longish breastfeed 7am-8am
Midmorning snack short breastfeed 11am (sometimes misses this, if she doesn't ask for it, I don't give it)
Mid afternoon snack short breastfeed 3pm
Longish Bedtime breastfeed 6.45pm

She also gets 3 x solid meals and puddings in between these times.

I expect she'll fully drop the midmorning snack feed by 10 months and replace that with a solids snack like a ricecake or some fruit.

I would expect if I was going back to work when she was 10 months, that I would need to express around 7-8oz for 1 x midafternoon feed - 1 for each day that I was at work.

So if I was you, I think I'd express around 21-24oz a week for the three midafternoon snack feeds plus a little extra milk just in case, so it might be an idea to start building up a supply for the freezer fairly soon.

The way I get the 7-8oz amount is that I left DD for the afternoon the other day and she took that amount of EBM from a bottle - I'm fairly sure she doesn't take this much from me at that time of day as she is only on for about 3 mins in the afternoon but I wanted to make sure she had enough and she gulped it all down! Obviously I really don't know how much she has but I'd rather make sure there's more than she needs. However it took me about 4 expressing sessions to get off that amount of milk so unless you've a brilliant supply (mine has dwindled so much since weaning), I would definitely start to build up your freezer stock soon.

Hope that helps.

Valentine Xxx

 

[Lola's Mummy]

Thanks valentine that has helped loads

My supply seems to be ok as Lola is starting to have a lot more solids now so sometimes i'm even leaking a little bit. Hopefully i should be able to express now. I haven't tried for a while as i had found it difficult last time i tried but have got a new breast pump now

Happy 8 months Ella!!

 

[Redshoes]

Isaac has his biggest bottle feed before bed, usually 8oz, then the rest in another 2 bottles, one first thing which is usally about 6oz, and one anytime during the rest of the day, so in that case Lola would be fine with 1 bottle really, and you could still give her her first and last feed as a BF