montessori and CLW

[BethSLP]

For those of you with older nurslings, do you send EBM with them to montessori?

DD nurses very frequently right now. She is starting a toddler montessori in the fall. 2 full days a week (when I work) and a half day from time to time.

I recognize that things will likely change (as we know they always do) but if DD were to start tomorrow, she'd definetly need some EBM during the day IMO. She gets comfort from it, even in a bottle.

She only takes a bottle for EBM. Uses a sippy or a cup for everything else.

I guess I am just a little paranoid at how the school may react if she has a bottle of EBM in her "snack" The school is for children 18 months and up and she will be the youngest one in the class.

I am new to the montessori concept, but I know there is a big focus on a child being independent. Given our current mainstream culture about children needing to be "off the bottle" by 12 months, I just wonder how this will go over. Before I knew any better, I'm sure I would have thought that any mother sending a bottle with an 18 month old was trying to baby her child too much and had issues.

Just wondering if anyone else had any thoughts. I'll talk to the director of the school about it, but wondered if its ever been an issue for anyone else.
XOXO
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[alegna]

They may require it to be in a sippy cup instead of a bottle...

(psssst.... which montessori are you using? we're thinking about it and I wonder what you've found... )

-Angela

[mamaverdi]

If she won't take milk from a sippy cup, I would insist to the director that the milk is extremely expensive and cannot be drunk from an open cup. :

[Valkyrie9]

Is there a possibility that you could go by there at lunch time and take your LO somewhere quiet to nurse? I talked to our Montessori director about doing this, and she was fine with it as long as it was during their regular lunch time. *

*Not that I have done it...DD doesn't start long days until August and so it isn't an issue. Yet. And I am conflicted as to whether to try and drop her lunchtime nursing (for the 3 long days she'll be there each week), or if I should leave from work to go nurse her.

[CrunchyMomto3]

My children were not in Montessori at this age, but they did both drink EMM in a sippy while we were out and about. If it were my classroom, I would have no issues with a sippy of milk during snack and/or lunch time. You need to find out what the school policy is on bottles. They might not be permitted at all. :

[BethSLP]

I never tried EBM in the sippy. I guess i just figured that part of the comfort was a breast like delivery system

ALso, a lot of people told me that most kids wont take EBM from a sippy.

hmmmm

XOXO
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[Drummer's Wife]

talk to the school and see what they say. When I had a toddler class, there was no bottles, pacifiers, sippy cups at all. But the children all did very well drinking out of a small glass, even when they were used to bottles or otherwise at home. Some ate more food at school because they didn't have a bottle all day.

I don't see why the directress would have a problem with you sending breast milk, we often had parents bring soy milk or rice milk as an alternative to the cows milk that our school provided.