weaning: not eating with DS, does it matter?

[BotBotticelli]

DS is 24 weeks old and I have been weaning for 2 weeks so far, am giving a small amount of baby porridge for breakfast (an hour after morning bottle) and a smal portion of homemade veg puree for lunch (an hour after mid morning bottle).

We haven't bought a high chair yet so I am tending to feed him in the bumbo on the floor, and this means that we are not 'eating together'.....i know if I was doing BLW we would obviously be sat at a table together, but I wondered if any of you ladies who'd started off weaning with purees had done it this way too? Does it matter? And when/how did you start sitting with your DCs for 'meals' instead of feeding them separately.

I feel instinctively that it would be better for DS to learn to eat with me (and DH at the weekends) rather than in isolation, but just isn;t happening at the moment and I am tying myself in knots that I am setting myself up for problems later....please reassure me that this is ok at 24 weeks??

I think that what your doing is perfectly fine! As LO gets older, and especially when finger foods start, that is when I would start with the sitting together for meals.
My two are 21 months and 41/2, I didn't make a point of sitting with them for my own meals until they were self feeding at least part of their meal, and they both sit nicely to the table and enjoy family meals.

My DD is 7m and she doesn't eat when we do. Mainly because DP doesn't get home until 8:30 so sometimes we don't eat until 9 and she's asleep in bed then. Around lunch time I eat around the same time but not together, i give her mashed food food. When I eat my lunch I give her a couple of pieces of finger food. I don't think it will cause any problems myself.

When I weaned DS some years ago he was too young to feed himself so sat in his highchair while I spooned in purees. He is 9 now, will try almost everything, has table manners and is sociable.

Don't stress too much. Agree that eating with the family is probably best but don't think a few weeks is going to cause any long term problems

If you are worried, get a hughchair and give Lo a few finger foods to play with eat while you eat your food.