BLW - help with logistics!

[DitaVonCheese]

Probably stupid questions but I'm struggling with the logistics

When do you have your evening meal? DH doesn't get home until 6.30 so presumably I need to have dinner on the table waiting for him (!) if we're going to attempt to give DD a reasonable bedtime, but then sometimes I can't start cooking until he gets home.

And when do you do baths? Before dinner seems pointless, but after dinner is late (DD didn't get washed for the first five days of BLW ).

And last question: does it matter if I'm not immediately giving her three chances to eat every day (we've only been doing this for about ten days)? Presumably at some point it's going to be negligent not to feed her, but at this stage she's not getting solids every day if it's not convenient (mad week last week).

Thanks

At first it doesn't matter whether she has 3 meals a day as she will be having mainly milk.

If I don't get chance to give ds a bath after tea, I just wipe his hands and face with a damp flannel.

You could give dd something to eat earlier if your tea time is too late for her, just give her some fruit and veg, she won't be actually eating much for a while anyway if you've only just started.

Hi Dita (love the name btw )

DS didn't get offered solids every day at first, whilst I was struggling to get my head round it all, and certainly it was only once or twice a day for the first few weeks.

Re. meals, DP and I are quite late eaters so DS always has his tea separately - I hang out with him in the kitchen and snack keep him company. He seems quite happy with this He always has a bath before bed, at about 6.30, so this is useful for scraping the detritus off afterwards!

I dont eat with the kids as I eat with dh later at around 8pm after the kids are in bed. They have dinner around 5pm and I sit with them and have a snack/pinch some of theirs!! They dont have a bath every night but when they do it is around 6.30pm.

Well to begin with, our DS was going to bed when we did at about 11ish so it wasn't a problem. Now though we try to eat at around 7-8ish and after dinner DS gets either a wipe over with a damp flannel or a bath in the kitchen sink depending on how dirty he is. So he probably goes to bed around 9ish most nights. It works for us as I don't have to get him up for nursery or anything and means he sleeps in a bit later in the morning, and DP gets to see him in the evenings. Probably wouldn't work if you had to wake the baby up for nursery/older siblings school run etc though.

Oh and he is on one meal a day for now, sometimes has lunch as well, but no breakfast at the moment. We have been doing BLW for about 2 weeks.

Apologies for my radio silence

Thanks for the replies. Cheers cyteen - I was a very uninspired Anglepoise (I had an anglepoise lamp on my desk when I signed up) but felt the need for a change.

CherryChoc DD usually goes to bed with us too, so I don't really know why I'm stressing about getting her to eat early, but I am trying to move towards a slightly earlier bedtime (though would much rather she was in bed 9-9 than 7-7!).

Does anyone else's DC yawn a lot during meals? Trying to work out whether I'm getting the timing completely wrong (don't think I am) or whether she just finds it hard work/dull. She also tends to go into a kind of daze, staring into the middle distance while absent-mindedly mashing up whatever she's supposed to be eating with one hand.