10 Day Work Trip - How to Manage Breastfeeding???

Bring the baby with you to Asia and find a sitter there. Ask your company's Asian contact to set it up. Either that or find a wet nurse, or give him forumla or goats milk ( it tastes most like mothers milk and is easy to digest) while you are gone. Pump while you are there to keep the breast milk flowing even if you have to throw the milk out. I was hospitalized once when my son was a baby and I expressed the milk in the hospital and though I did not find a wet nurse he was given a playtex bottle with goats milk. I nursed him till he was two years old. At first he cried and missed me alot and did not want to tae the bottle but eventually self preservation and hunger took over and he surrendered and took it. If it was me in your shoes I would take the baby with me. I would not be azble to handle ten days afway from my baby. Five days in the hospital was bad enough for me and my son. Good luck.

Are you still feeding her in the middle of the night? If not, that might be an opportune time pump and get some extra milk. I find that I get the most milk from pumping in the middle of the night and in fact most of my storage (pretty much my whole freezer and my baby is only 5.5 months) has come from those night pumping sessions. It would be a drag for you but worth it to continue nursing your little one.

K.,
I just traveled and ended up with mastitis, so I highly recommend you rest and relax as much as you possibly can!
YOU CAN DO THIS!!!
If you start pumping some extra now, you'll have plenty stored up before you go. At 9 month, she won't need as much as she is getting now, so as she naturally starts nursing less and eating more, YOU can keep the milk coming by pumping.
YOU CAN DO IT!
I am so proud of you for what you are doing. I am a nursing mom and PROUD OF IT!
YOU CAN DO IT!
It'll be commitment for sure, but it can be done. Please do make sure to take care of yourself though.
Rest a lot and get a massage when you are there if you can. YOU DESERVE IT!!!
The time change and work will exhaust you, so don't think you are wimping out if you need to excuse yourself from work dinners early to get to bed. REST, REST, REST!
Please keep us updated, i will be eager to hear about the great success you had with it!
:)
S.
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When my daughter was 7 months old I had a two week business trip and refused to stop breastfeeding "just because of work!" I flew my mother in for the first week and my husband for the second (he took a week's vacation); I brought my electric double breast pump with me and pumped every three hours so I had enough milk for the next day while I was at work. My daughter had just started on rice cereal (I breast fed her exclusively until she was 7 months old) so the majority of her nutrition was coming from me still. It was not easy but I am so glad I went the route of taking her with me on the trip. Is this an option for you? You would have to pay for the person coming with you likely but your daughter may still get to travel on your lap. Oh - and another point - I called the office that I was going to and asked if they had a lactation room - which they did - and confirmed a frig was available for me as well to store the milk. Then for the flight I used the Playtex freezer bag to keep the milk cold during the flight. Hope this helps.

This sounds so hard for you... I would first recommend calling your local La Leche League or go to www.llli.org. I think that you can pump to build up your supply. It will take extra work; pump one side while nursing on the other...Are you already working and pumping? Try to get in extra pumping sessions. Also, pump while you are in Asia to keep up supply. You r body works purely on supply and demand. If you can pump a couple (or more) times a day then you will keep producing milk. Then your daughter will increase the supply when you return. If you are not already pumping, remember that your body doesn't always respond to a pump as well as responding to your baby. Don't panic if you don't pump a lot while you are gone, just keep pumping for your babies supply and also to avoid getting engorged/mastitis from abrupt stopping.
It sounds like a difficult situation but I certainly don't think it means stopping altogether.

This is a predicament indeed. I planned on breastfeeding for 2 years with my first son...how naive was I. We didn't even make it a year. Once he got his bottom 2 and top 4 teeth I was bit a couple of times and very quickly quit at 10 months. I couldn't pump enough to meet his demands and transitioned him straight to cows milk, instead of formula for the remaining 2 months. Although the doctor said he needed breastmilk or formula for at least a year he turned out fine and he is very healthy.

That is a tough call to make. Good luck!
S.

I to traveled and was away from my litle on a lot in her first year. I had a nursing formula. For the last 4 hours of her sleeping at night I nursed on 1 side. The I would pump from the breast we had not used after the last nursing. I got this formula from a breastfeeding book, and I always got a least 1/2 or more of milk (or a full feeding). Make sure you completely pump this breast, your milk will not decrease. I also took fenegreek which increases your volume. Though you will smell like maple syrup!

Hi, My name is M. and i live in Australia with a 14 month old. When i stopped breastfeeding my boobs nearly exploded and they were so painful because i stopped abrubtly. If you don't feed for 10 days i'm sure you will experience this or you will have to express a little each day. I had to give up at 10 months so i could work full time. Watch out for mastitis.