When does your baby have dinner?

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We've just started blw with DS1 6months. We are currently on holiday and so in a position to play around with things.. I understand the importance of all sitting down to eat together yet his bath then bedtime is 1800. We have tried this week extending it (sitting down to eat at 1800) but this led to a tired screamy baby who was far harder to settle. We've compromised with sitting and eating toast/fruit whilst he has dinner ( dinner being bits of the meal we are going to eat later). Do most blweaners eat early? Will DP just have to get used to coming in from work and sitting straight down to tea (eek does that mean I will always be the one making the tea!). What do you do?

With my first I did a mix of blw and traditional weaning, meaning I could feed him dinner at 4.30/5 then have dinner with my dh at 7 (for lunch and breakfast he had what we were having) and at weekends we eat at 5.

With ds2 I have just done blw, but he and his brother eat at 5 and I eat with dh at 7 although my husband works away from home 3/8weeks so I often just eat with the kids,

Bedtime routine starts at 6 in out house

4 days of the week we all eat together about 5.30 ish then the other days of week (wkend normally) dd and baby eat together about 5 ish and me and dh eat later. Baby in bath by 6.20 ish then normally asleep by 7

Thank you ladies!

DS eats tea at 6 but DH isn't back from work then so it's basically the same issue. In the week, I eat with DS on a couple of nights and with DH the other 3, after DS is in bed. We all eat tea together at the weekend. When DS eats on his own (I sit with him while he eats), I often cook something like shepherd's pie or casserole so it's easy to give DS some then reheat for us later.

I should have added I often save some if what me and dh have for dinner (meaning we both cook) and dss have that for dinner the next night.