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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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