When did you introduce Supper?

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And how do you fit it in with your evening routine?

DD is 1.1 and on three meals a day plus snacks. She has a morning milk and a bedtime milk, but her last meal.is 4/4.30 (snack of a biscuit about 5, too), then bottle after her bath (6.45pm ish).

The last few nights she has started waking in the night again, sometimes every hour in the night, sometimes for a half hour period at 3am. Im wondering os she needs some.supper before bed,maybe a bowl.of porridge or similar?

Should also add that DD woke ceying rhis morning at 6.45 so we got her up and she breakfast and by 7.45 was rubbing her eyes and saying 'night night' so went back down for a nap.

We introduced supper for the very same reason! My two (now 3) have dinner a bit later too, 5.30ish. Supper for us is just milk and a biscuit before teeth brushing, but I know people who give their little ones weetabix/porridge or toast. Have you checked her bedding is warm enough too? Good luck!

I think her room.is warm enough - we had a spurt of wakings about two.months ago woth the cold so got her a warmer grobag and put a little oil rad into her room, so its usually about 18/19° in there.

I do think she needs a supper, just wasnt sure if I should do it pre bath or after. I suppose of I do it before her bath, she can then have a top up of milk before sleep.

I might be misremembering, but aren't they eating dinner with the family at 12 months?

Surely it totally depends on your own family Seeker! My DH and I eat dinner at 8.30/9pm, so our toddler has never eaten dinner with us and probably won't for some years yet. I do think 4.30 does sound very early for the last meal of the day though. On nursery days my DS has tea there at 4pm, but then has toast/fruit/yoghurt etc at about 6pm. On other days he just has a snack at 3.30pm or so, but then has tea at about 5.30pm.

I would always advise food before bathtime rather than the other way round...

Well, she has dinner at 4pm at the CMs with the CM and other mindees. As we work til 5.30, we pick her up and theb have a little play, bath bottle bed, down at seven the we eat our dinner.

On days when she is not at CMs, we eat dinner all together at five.

Yes, of course- that was silly of me. I was just surprised that a child of this age having her dinner at 4.30. I seem to remember mine eating at more adult times, even if the adults weren't eating, IYsWIM.

Sadly she loves her bed, and a more adult meal time would have her face planting in her plate.

And it's a very long time from 5 to breakfast!

OK, so ill do a 6/6.15 supper, then bath, then any extra milk. Ive already spent the last two weeks pushing her bedtime back to 7pm (used to be 6pm), and I dont think she can handle any later.