If that dreaded moment when you have to return to work after maternity leave is upon you, you will need to start sending your baby to a child care facility, such as Kaye Kare Child Care Center. However, it can be highly challenging to determine how you are going to do this while your baby is still breastfeeding. Here are four tips to help you handle this:

1. Pump at Work:  While you are away from the baby, your breasts are going to feel engorged at some point while at work. To help get rid of this feeling, it's best to pump while you are at work during your break. Your employer will have to allow this. If you feel uncomfortable, you can always do this in an enclosed room in the office or in any small space that is secluded and not being used. 
2. Supplement With Formula: If you don't feel comfortable pumping or only work part-time so that pumping would be unnecessary, you can always supplement with formula. Simply bring the formula to your baby's child care facility and inform the child care provider of how to properly mix the formula so that it doesn't make your baby sick. For example, you may want to add more water than is indicated for the first few days if this is the first time you are giving your child formula. 
3. Talk to Your Baby's Child Care Provider: If you aren't comfortable supplementing with formula because  you want to breastfeed exclusively, then you need to talk to your baby's child care provider. They should be more than willing to store the breastmilk that you have pumped in the proper way and give it to your baby in a bottle of your choosing. The bottle should be made for babys who are exclusively breastfeeding so that they are less likely to develop nipple confusion. 
4. Label the Milk: For health reasons, it's important that you label the breastmilk you are bringing to the child care facility with your child's first and last name. You don't want there to be any confusion and your baby gets the wrong breastmilk or your breastmilk is given to another baby. This is a huge health hazard that your child care provider should be well informed about. Be sure that they have a proper system of storing breastmilk so that this is something that is highly unlikely to happen. 

When you know these four tips for handling breastfeeding while your baby is in daycare, you can be sure that your mind is put at ease once you must return to work.