SUNNY GAULT: So I have to ask this, Shira, to your knowledge has your baby ever received another mother's milk or even
formula at daycare.
She also gets
formula at daycare or I would never be able to meet demand.
Although this is an easy trap to fall into - especially for moms who want to nurse when she's with baby but offer a bottle of
formula at daycare.
I want to try night weaning because he is now 8 months old, BUT, I work 4 days a week and can pump only once during the day so my son gets supplemented with
formula at daycare (at home he gets breastmilk when I'm away).
Not exact matches
For an infant, you are looking
at $ 50 - 65 per month on
formula alone — no clothing, diapers, pediatrician co-pays,
daycare, etc..
It took months of me trying unsuccessfully
at home and a month of struggling and unhappiness
at daycare before his teachers finally got him to start regularly taking a full bottle of
formula.
Just so I'm clear: — you're done with pumping (totally understandable) but not breastfeeding; — you're fine switching your seven - month old to
formula when the frozen stash runs out (totally practical); — and, she's fine taking a bottle
at daycare or from a caretaker who is not you.
She gets bottles of expressed breast milk (EBM)
at daycare until that runs out, then switch to
formula.
I don't know if it's because of relaxation or skipped pumpings
at work but
daycare always has to supplement with
formula.
I am still endlessly amazed
at the bitter war between mothers: breast vs
formula, carrier vs stroller,
daycare vs work
at home, EC vs diapers...
Among her suggestions: better access to lactation counseling, which is often not covered by insurance; a scaling back in the «aggressive marketing» of infant
formula, including the free samples given to new parents
at the hospital, and paid break time for women to pump their breast milk or, where possible, offer flexible work schedules or on - site
daycare.
And I'm ignoring that we qualified for WIC and that it would have been far easier to
formula feed with him
at daycare because they provide
formula so I wouldn't even have needed to cart anything back and forth.
The
daycare my daughter was
at had two workers verify each bottle, both
formula and breastmilk, plus each baby before feeding.
If the authors worked
at a
daycare center, what do they expect to do — tell parents to bring in a prescription for
formula and food or the staff won't feed the kid?