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[quote=Anonymous][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]

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.  [/quote]

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