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[quote=Anonymous]We are moving our almost 6 MO to a centerr. He is currently EBF and gets between 3 and 4 bottles of 4 oz. each at his home day care. Unfortunately the home day care is super inconvenient to our commutes, and now that our older son will be in the preschool at this center, it will be much easier on everyone if they are at the same place.

The day care does not keep any bottles or breast milk overnight, and they will not put anything in the freezer to keep. Most of the time DH will be close by (it's at his office), but on the days that he travels, I will be pretty far away, with my commute potentially complicated by traffic or weather events. In the past at family day cares, I've always left a few packets of frozen milk in case of emergency, and I usually send 4 bottles with 1 usually coming back home uneaten. The day care says I just need to send extra milk in case something happens and no one can get there, but I don't think they realize the implications of doing that. I have a freezer stash, but it isn't huge. He has never taken formula before and was really picky about milk and bottles for a long time. I'd rather not introduce formula just to see. I can leave a few emergency-only RTF formula bottles, but being new there, I'm unsure of what they may interpret as an emergency. I don't want them giving him the bottles just because Dad was running 15 minutes late. Not to mention I have no idea if he would actually take it anyway. We haven't started solids yet and don't plan to have him eating solids at day care until it's established at home. DS1 literally never needed the emergency milk stash before, but it gave my peace of mind to know it was there.

How have other moms handled this situation? DH could probably put a few packets in his freezer in the common breakroom at his office (will people think that's weird? Probably!), but that doesn't help when he's traveling. It's a secured building. Maybe I'm just overthinking this (probably).

Any other advice for using breast milk and centers will be welcomed! It's the first time we've been in a center and the policy-driven aspect has me a bit unnerved after being in a super flexible, customized home setting. The center is subsidized A LOT by DH's employer and is generally well-regarded, so it's difficult to turn it down. [/quote]

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