What are you babies mealtimes?

[wildpoppy]

My little one is weaning with mixed success but I find the best times for meals for her are 11am and 5pm - otherwise she is too tired. What mealtimes do you have? Do you try to stick to adult concepts like breakfast, lunch and dinner?

We have 7.30am,11.30am and 4.30pm as breakfast lunch and dinner/tea.This suits dc1 (6y) dc2 (5y) and dc3(10m). Lunch is a bit early for me but I try to eat with dc3 and we rarely have tea in the week with the dc as it is just too early,dh isn't home. Weekends we try to eat with them and have pudding later.

7/7.30 for breakfast with all the family

11.30 for lunch but I try to push it back to 12 slowly over the weeks

5 for tea with siblings

DS is 6 and a half months and has been EBF. We started weaning two weeks ago. He's flying through weaning and loving his food so we've moved quite quickly but as his wakeful times still range from an hour and half to 3 hours we have to be quite flexible as it depends on how well he naps during the day. If he naps for longer in the morning i find i can push lunch back a bit, but if he's awake again by 10/ 10.30am he needs his lunch earlier or he'll be too tired to take it and sometimes he needs an additional catnap between waking from his morning nap and having lunch. Broadly speaking i try to go by roughly similar adult breakfast, lunch and dinner times. At the moment our morning looks a little like this, give or take:

7/7.30am milk feed
8/8.30am breakfast
9/9.30am nap
10-11.30am milk feed
11.45-12.30 lunch followed by milk top up

The afternoons are still a bit hit and miss as some days he needs just one more nap and others he still needs a further 2. I'm starting on dinner today but will be led by when he wakes and seems hungry. I would envisage a mid-afternoon milk feed and nap, then dinner (perhaps followed by milk top up initially) around 5ish (our own dinner time is actually much later, more like 7.30pm), then a bedtime feed.

My DS is 10 months and his day goes like this:

6.30am BF
8am breakfast
9am (sometimes) BF then nap
10am snack
12pm lunch
1pm BF then nap
3pm snack
5.30pm tea
7pm BF
11pm BF

Mine is 9.5 months now and his meals are:

8am breakfast
11.30/12 lunch
3-4ish (after his nap) - snack/tea
6.30pm dinner (he eats with us)

He also breastfeeds first thing, before his morning and afternoon naps and at bedtime.

In the early days I tended to just give him some food if I was eating and he was awake! Lunch has become early more recently as milk wasn't enough for him to last til I had lunch anymore. Same with the afternoon - he was just breastfeeding between lunch and dinner but it became clear he needed something more substantial to see him through.

9 am breakfast, 1pm lunch, 7pm dinner.
BF at 4 am, 11am, 3 pm, 10pm