Milk for nursery when returning to work?

Hi all, for those going back to work when your baby is 1, are you sending milk in? If so how much for the day. I've looked online and some people give one bottle some are sending in 3 and some none, as babies are 1 they manage on their 3 meals a day. I'm thinking to start expressing and stacking up the freezer from now so there is enough but he might not even want all that milk but also working full time, pumping before nursery so he has a bottle and probably pumping at work just seems very long and just too much. He LOVES food and has 3 meals a day with snacks in between and fruit after each meal and breast milk maybe twice a day now.

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Do u mean formula or expressed milk

My little girl, who loved her milk, dropped her day bottle pretty quickly once she started nursery because I think they’re too distracted to have it anyway. So i’d send him in with what he normally has and then you might find he stops having a feed in the day altogether x

@Ade morning, any to be honest just wanting to gauge what people do milk wise

I'll be sending my lo with 2 portions of formula. At least to start with. I have lots of vreast milk frozen but I prefer to potentially waste formula rather than my milk. I got a formula container the other day in Aldi and plan to use this

@Shenel OK thank you. Now he's eating he doesn't seem to demand milk anymore or have a care for it. The other day he went 6 hours without a feed and I fed him because my boobs were so full and sore! So in 2 months he might not even want it!

@Dragon mummy ok good to know and yes good idea.

@Shelly I just send them a tin of milk. When it's almost finished they always let me know so I can bring another.

@Ade OK thank you

At the start, I'll probably send in whatever I can pump between ebf the couple days before. Then that first day I'll pump a couple times for the next day and so on. If after a few days we notice she doesn't drink it then I'll send a couple oz over what she normally drinks there and freeze the rest. I do have some in the freezer but it'll be over 6 months old by then so I won't be able to send it! I go back to work after her first week and I'll pump what I can there.

I don’t intend on using formula after 1 so she’d just need offered cows milk instead.

My is almost 10 months she usually has 3 bottles ( 2 in the day) and at nursery she is not bothered at all by it and won’t have it. I just send one in now just incase.

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