Sending breast milk to day care.... Advice

[Anonymous]

Does your husband have a fridge with a freezer in his office? If so, send the freezer stash to his office and ask a coworker friend to send it over if that doomsday scenario happens. Or, let daycare deal with the formula frustration in the doomsday scenario. My baby was super picky about formula and wouldn't take any. For my sanity, I asked my center to help acclimate the baby (around 6 months) and they did it in a day. They are professionals.

[Anonymous]

We sent a couple bottles of rtf formula for emergencies and sent 4 x 4oz bottles daily, rotating as others have described. We never ended up using the emergency formula. We also asked them to record the actual amount from each bottle that DC ate.

Your DC will be starting solids fairly son anyhow and that will help too. Don't over think things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I honestly never want daycare to hold back milk...who cares if they are comfortable feeding...babies need comfort!! so I always send extra and have a case of ready to feed stored there as a back up. Even though he's never had formula if he's truly hunary I'm assuming he will eat it? I'd rather be extra safe then have a hungry baby. I also number the bottles and ask that they finished up bottle number 1 in the beginning of feeding number 2 if there was any left over.

Disagree with this. I would rather my baby be hungry at the end of the day so that she nurses with me at night. Keeps my supply up and it's sweet now that she's a squirmy wiggle worm. Sometimes the daycare ladies say she's hungry at the end of the day (especially if I'm running late), but she's huge and chubby and definitely not starving.

I like the idea of your husband keeping a bag at work and having a coworker friend run it over if he can't. Seems much easier than rotating every day for an unlikely occurrence. I rotate frozen milk and find that annoying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly never want daycare to hold back milk...who cares if they are comfortable feeding...babies need comfort!! so I always send extra and have a case of ready to feed stored there as a back up. Even though he's never had formula if he's truly hunary I'm assuming he will eat it? I'd rather be extra safe then have a hungry baby. I also number the bottles and ask that they finished up bottle number 1 in the beginning of feeding number 2 if there was any left over.

Disagree with this. I would rather my baby be hungry at the end of the day so that she nurses with me at night. Keeps my supply up and it's sweet now that she's a squirmy wiggle worm. Sometimes the daycare ladies say she's hungry at the end of the day (especially if I'm running late), but she's huge and chubby and definitely not starving.

I like the idea of your husband keeping a bag at work and having a coworker friend run it over if he can't. Seems much easier than rotating every day for an unlikely occurrence. I rotate frozen milk and find that annoying.

I hadn't thought of doing that, but I'm sure he could find one person at his office who wouldn't be weird about doing this if absolutely necessary. I also want baby to be hungry when I see him. It's hard to time feedings just right, but I get so irritated when I call my daycare provider to tell her I'll be there in 20 minutes and find out he's just finished a bottle when I get there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I honestly never want daycare to hold back milk...who cares if they are comfortable feeding...babies need comfort!! so I always send extra and have a case of ready to feed stored there as a back up. Even though he's never had formula if he's truly hunary I'm assuming he will eat it? I'd rather be extra safe then have a hungry baby. I also number the bottles and ask that they finished up bottle number 1 in the beginning of feeding number 2 if there was any left over.

Disagree with this. I would rather my baby be hungry at the end of the day so that she nurses with me at night. Keeps my supply up and it's sweet now that she's a squirmy wiggle worm. Sometimes the daycare ladies say she's hungry at the end of the day (especially if I'm running late), but she's huge and chubby and definitely not starving.

I like the idea of your husband keeping a bag at work and having a coworker friend run it over if he can't. Seems much easier than rotating every day for an unlikely occurrence. I rotate frozen milk and find that annoying.

I hadn't thought of doing that, but I'm sure he could find one person at his office who wouldn't be weird about doing this if absolutely necessary. I also want baby to be hungry when I see him. It's hard to time feedings just right, but I get so irritated when I call my daycare provider to tell her I'll be there in 20 minutes and find out he's just finished a bottle when I get there.

Most babies I've cared for have about 5 minutes between showing hunger and full on crying. Asking a childcare provider to ignore a child's needs for that long is unfair to both the baby and the provider. You need to figure out another solution rather than torturing your child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I honestly never want daycare to hold back milk...who cares if they are comfortable feeding...babies need comfort!! so I always send extra and have a case of ready to feed stored there as a back up. Even though he's never had formula if he's truly hunary I'm assuming he will eat it? I'd rather be extra safe then have a hungry baby. I also number the bottles and ask that they finished up bottle number 1 in the beginning of feeding number 2 if there was any left over.

Disagree with this. I would rather my baby be hungry at the end of the day so that she nurses with me at night. Keeps my supply up and it's sweet now that she's a squirmy wiggle worm. Sometimes the daycare ladies say she's hungry at the end of the day (especially if I'm running late), but she's huge and chubby and definitely not starving.

I like the idea of your husband keeping a bag at work and having a coworker friend run it over if he can't. Seems much easier than rotating every day for an unlikely occurrence. I rotate frozen milk and find that annoying.

I hadn't thought of doing that, but I'm sure he could find one person at his office who wouldn't be weird about doing this if absolutely necessary. I also want baby to be hungry when I see him. It's hard to time feedings just right, but I get so irritated when I call my daycare provider to tell her I'll be there in 20 minutes and find out he's just finished a bottle when I get there.

Most babies I've cared for have about 5 minutes between showing hunger and full on crying. Asking a childcare provider to ignore a child's needs for that long is unfair to both the baby and the provider. You need to figure out another solution rather than torturing your child.

It's no different than Dad having to distract baby for a few minutes because Mom's in the shower when he wakes up. A good provider would know techniques to try to soothe a baby if she knows Mom is almost there. It's hardly torture to give baby a chance to reconnect with mom when she gets there instead of sticking him in the carseat and heading down the road. My last provider was great about that, so maybe we were spoiled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I honestly never want daycare to hold back milk...who cares if they are comfortable feeding...babies need comfort!! so I always send extra and have a case of ready to feed stored there as a back up. Even though he's never had formula if he's truly hunary I'm assuming he will eat it? I'd rather be extra safe then have a hungry baby. I also number the bottles and ask that they finished up bottle number 1 in the beginning of feeding number 2 if there was any left over.

Disagree with this. I would rather my baby be hungry at the end of the day so that she nurses with me at night. Keeps my supply up and it's sweet now that she's a squirmy wiggle worm. Sometimes the daycare ladies say she's hungry at the end of the day (especially if I'm running late), but she's huge and chubby and definitely not starving.

I like the idea of your husband keeping a bag at work and having a coworker friend run it over if he can't. Seems much easier than rotating every day for an unlikely occurrence. I rotate frozen milk and find that annoying.

I hadn't thought of doing that, but I'm sure he could find one person at his office who wouldn't be weird about doing this if absolutely necessary. I also want baby to be hungry when I see him. It's hard to time feedings just right, but I get so irritated when I call my daycare provider to tell her I'll be there in 20 minutes and find out he's just finished a bottle when I get there.

Most babies I've cared for have about 5 minutes between showing hunger and full on crying. Asking a childcare provider to ignore a child's needs for that long is unfair to both the baby and the provider. You need to figure out another solution rather than torturing your child.

Not true and please chill on the melodrama. Daycare providers are professionals and totally capable of distracting the baby. It's more work for them instead of just giving a bottle. Almost every day my daughter would get 5 ounces around 5:00, then I would show up 15 minutes later with leaky boobs and she wouldn't be hungry. So now she gets her last bottle at 4:00, and they distract her if she's hungry or I'm running late. It works out just find and its not unfair or torture. Not all providers are willing to do this, but the good ones are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly never want daycare to hold back milk...who cares if they are comfortable feeding...babies need comfort!! so I always send extra and have a case of ready to feed stored there as a back up. Even though he's never had formula if he's truly hunary I'm assuming he will eat it? I'd rather be extra safe then have a hungry baby. I also number the bottles and ask that they finished up bottle number 1 in the beginning of feeding number 2 if there was any left over.

Disagree with this. I would rather my baby be hungry at the end of the day so that she nurses with me at night. Keeps my supply up and it's sweet now that she's a squirmy wiggle worm. Sometimes the daycare ladies say she's hungry at the end of the day (especially if I'm running late), but she's huge and chubby and definitely not starving.

I like the idea of your husband keeping a bag at work and having a coworker friend run it over if he can't. Seems much easier than rotating every day for an unlikely occurrence. I rotate frozen milk and find that annoying.

I hadn't thought of doing that, but I'm sure he could find one person at his office who wouldn't be weird about doing this if absolutely necessary. I also want baby to be hungry when I see him. It's hard to time feedings just right, but I get so irritated when I call my daycare provider to tell her I'll be there in 20 minutes and find out he's just finished a bottle when I get there.

I'm sure there would be people who would be happy to help! Unlikely and not a huge inconvenience if it's in his building. I strongly recommend cutting off feedings after a certain time (I do approximately two hours before her first evening nursing session). It's much easier on you and makes the daycare able to plan better (instead of waiting for a call from you).