Can I give baby food at/after 9pm?

[dreamerkr]

Hey guys. DS is 6 months old and we recently started weaning. He doesn’t have any sort of routine just yet and he sleeps late (11pm-ish) and wakes up late too at 9ish or 10am. We’ve been trying to put him to bed early at like 7pm but when he sleeps, he wakes back up and is wide awake. We have dinner late (not him) at 9ish. Not ideal I know. Although I give him a bottle just before we have dinner, he still wants our food and screams for it sometimes. Is it okay to give him food at such a late time? And how did you guys get your baby into a routine?

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It’s fine OP, why wouldn’t it be? If he’s up and hungry then feed him!

if you want to establish a routine where he sleeps earlier that’s different but there’s nothing inherently wrong about him staying up late and waking late if it suits your family.

Can you shift his routine back by 15 minutes each day? You need some evening time back!

If you want him to go to bed earlier then you'd likely need to start waking him earlier in the morning so he's tired enough to sleep at an earlier time.

Thank you so much 😌 he usually wants whatever we’re having at that time, be it pasta or rice or whatever it is. It’s okay to give normal food at that time? Sorry if this is a dumb question!

I'd honestly do dinner at 5, maybe 6 atvthe latest, then just milk feed after that if they still want it. You really want to do a bedtime about 6.30 (unless you prefer to be later). Hopefully your baby will start to sleep 7-7 soon and you'll get your evenings back (unless of course you don't want that).

What do you imagine the harm would be? I’m not sure I understand your question.

If him sleeping 11pm-10am works for you then sure feed him at 9pm. A last meal 2 hours before bed, theb milk at bedtime is what would normally happen if his bedtime was 7pm.

If he's usually sleeping 11pm to 10am it's fine to give him food at 9pm @dreamerkr

If he was regularly doing 8pm to 7am you wouldn't worry about giving him solids at 6pm.

Agree with the others regarding your timings of his day. I don't know if you're planning on going back to work and putting him into childcare but if you are, you might want to start waking him 15 minutes early, so maybe 9.45 am for 2 or 3 days then move it to 9.30 am for 2 or 3 more days then continue Luke that till you get the day times how you want it.

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As long as you don't get him wet or feed him after midnight you should be fine. (Terrible joke which only really old m netters like me will even get the very crap reference for).

I definitely think someone must have done that to DS fairly early on. He didn't sleep through for years...

Dinner 2 hr before bed is fine. We have been doing a family dinner (baby mostly eats same food as us) between 6:30 and 7pm with bedtime at 8-8:30pm.