Things are still going so well. Sydney will start daycare on Monday. Next week is our transition week. I say it is for her, but I think it is more for me. I am in total denial that I have to go back to work and she therefore needs to go to daycare. I will use next week to make sure she is going to take to the bottle. I have about 40 oz of milk in the freezer. I am going to send her with two 3 oz bottles the first day since I do not plan to leave her there the whole day. I also don't know how much she is going to eat or how often. Everything is so different with a bottle. My son was already on bottles since he had a mix of formula and breast milk in a bottle. So there were no worries. I had it all down. Now it is going to be new and I have no real clue how much I will pump while she is gone.
My real fear is that she is going to refuse the bottle. She has been real up and down about taking it. She will scream her head off to the point of exhaustion at times and still not take the bottle. Other times it is no problem. I just wish I could get a doctors note to say I have to stay at home with her until she is a year old. At that point it is ok to try to introduce cows milk. Plus, I am hopeful that she will take to whole foods better than he brother did/does. He still tries to make milk his main source of food. It hasn't been breast milk in almost a year now.
And after all the work I did, he said he wanted to try some at almost the age of three. Why couldn't he have thought of that soon after he was born. Then I most likely would be nursing him and his sister still. Oh the pictures would have been so cute! I just changed the subject. It just didn't feel right. I did consider it though.
I am still thinking this time around that I have a forceful let down. I might have a bit of an over supply too. I wake her to eat sometimes to get some relief. Things might still be regulating though. I will see what happens after I am back at work for a while. If I pump more than she needs, I will save it until she is close to a year. I want to make sure she has more than enough until she is one in case something were to happen to me. At that point I will donate if she doesn't need it.
This brings me to Eats On Feets. This is a wonderful program for mothers with over supply to be able to help mothers with under or no supply. No there is no screening or testing and there are risks. Thing is, there are risks with formula too. Babies have died from formula. Find me one story where a baby has died from breast milk! It is a really great way to help local moms if you have more than you need. I have the link for Virginia as well as the main link. Find the one for your area and get help or give it :)
