How do you pack LO formula or breastmilk for daycare?

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Do you send in bottles ready to go?
Do you send thawed in freezer bags or formula measured in container?

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I send refrigerated breastmilk in the bottles ready to go. I send milk that I pumped at work the day before. That way if he doesn’t take a bottle I can send it back with him the next day. If you thaw frozen milk it has to be used within 24 hours. I did that in the beginning but was wasting milk because I had to throw away what he didn’t eat.

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My daycare only takes ready made bottles. My son is there for 8 hrs a day and I would send 4 3 oz bottles for him for the day. I recently cut that back to 3 bottles and I’m sending him some solids now that he’s old enough for those. Another thing to keep in mind is to make sure you are using the smallest size nipples foe the bottle you use. We still use a size 0 nipple at almost 7 months old. Also make sure your daycare is familiar with pace feeding for breastfed babies.

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My daycare was cool. I just sent a couple tins of formula with his name on them, a couple bottles, nipple, and such and they’d just mix him bottles as needed. I’m hoping to stay home a bit longer with this one since I plan on trying to whole breastfeeding things again, it wouldn’t happen with my first.

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I send the pumped milk from the day before then freeze what he didn’t use that day. If I didn’t have much pumped milk I send a frozen bag that they can thaw if needed

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To label the bottles do you buy the waterproof labels? I’ve seen them on amazon
Or do you just write on the bottles?

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We ask for our parents to bring how ever many bottles the baby will need filled with the water already and we take a can of formula and keep it in a cabinet. For breast milk it’s however you want to bring it; frozen bags+the bottles, or bottles with the milk in them already to be in the refrigerator. We try to cater to our parents and really we only ask that if they’re on formula to have the water in the bottle already because we don’t have room for each baby to have a gallon of water stored in class lol and we ask to bring a whole can that way you don’t have to worry about it every day and when they run low on formula we notify you .

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My daycare requires bottles to be ready to give if it’s breastmilk. For formula you have to have water and powder measured out before hand. They will not accept a whole container on formula. 
I send expressed milk but I didn’t want to send frozen milk either way because I want to be in control of how much my daughter gets so they don’t over feed her and make it harder for me to keep up with her demand.

How do you pack LO formula or breastmilk for daycare?

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