Family dinner while weaning?

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How many of you do a family dinner while weaning or do most people eat after baby has gone to bed? I like the idea of baby eating with us and learning from watching us eat etc. However I'm struggling a bit with the timing, especially when DH is home a bit late from work and baby is getting tired by the time we have dinner on the table. If you do a family dinner with a baby what time do you do it relative to baby's bed time?

When i wasnt working, dinner was 5.30pm usually. Works with regards to school age children and DH work. If DH working late or children needed an earlier dinner to fit in with extracurricular stuff - then dinner might be 4.30pm with DH getting his plated for when he gets home. Babys bedtime around 8-8.30pm

We always ate together at weekends, wasn't possible during the week as I don't get home until at least half seven.

No at that stage DCs had their main meal midday and tea (sandwich/beans in toast/omelette etc) at a bout 5pm before bed at about 6. DH was never home until about 7 so we had our evening meal later. I usually had my lunch when the DCs had their midday meal, and we all ate together more at the weekend. Didn't do them any harm.

We do/did (she is 1 now) but we have always been early eaters, before children dinner was rarely later than 6pm. Now we all eat at 5pm. I realise that wouldn't work for a lot of people but we are lucky that my partner finishes earlier.

Feed baby their regular meal earlier so they aren't starving but let them join and have any suitable finger foods from the meal would be my advice

I was on maternity leave when we started weaning so we always had breakfast and lunch together but generally had dinner later.

We all usually eat together anywhere between 4 and 6 depending what time DH is home from work and how hungry we are.

DS usually goes to bed around 7-7:30 or earlier if skipped afternoon nap (then we eat earlier).

sometimes DS has same food as us and other times he has some baby food usually Ella’s kitchen stuff. I like it when he eats with us but if I spoon feed baby food at least I know he’s eaten rather than chucking most of it on the floor 😂

Nope. DS is 10.5 months and we do breakfast & lunch together but his dinner is 4:30/5pm which is before my husband gets home and I'm also not hungry enough to eat dinner at that time.
I do prepare a bit of extra food so I can sit with him and show him how to eat / use cutlery.

Probably not helpful but as DH doesn’t usually get home until 7pm, I ate my main meal with the DCs at midday for a few years when they were tiny, on the days when I wasn’t at work. Both DCs were more likely to eat well in the middle of the day than in the evening when they were tired. And they had their main meal at nursery on my working days so it kept the routine going. We then did a 5pm tea, a quick play and started bed time routine soon after 6pm. DH ate later around 8pm. We did eat as a family at weekends!