Dinner table

BabyMakes 3

I recently got a highchair and want Benjamin to get used to it before we start using it for solids and whatnot. I was hellbent on him sitting at the table with us while we eat dinner but it hasn't worked out that way at all. DH is home by 6 at the latest. But LO is sometimes ready for bath and bed starting at 6:30. So it doesn't seem to be working out as I planned. Wow, I've used that sentence a whole lot in the last  months. Haha. 

Anyone else trying to do this? Or successfully doing it? We will start solids soon and I'm thinking if we push dinner up a bit, he can sit with us and have solids which should keep him fairly happy until bathtime. 

fennyann

I'm in the same boat actually. DH and I both commute and by the time we get home with LO its about 6. At that point, he ready for his bedtime routine. It makes it very difficult. 

persephonerose

I haven't put much thought into making sure D eats at the dinner table yet. DH works 3rd shift and does not eat until he is at work, which is around 10pm. We normally spend most of our day upstairs in the bonus room so that is generally where I eat.

We have been doing a few purees, but I try to do them earlier in the day because sometimes they make him gassy and I'd rather him not be woken up all night long with gas. 

vettymama

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vettymama

We definitely try to have LO at the dinner table with us as often as we can. But between DH's commute and now fieldwork starting so he isn't actually home until after midnight because he is planting, it is getting harder. I do have hin sit with me whenever I eat though. I'm a big advocate of family meal time.

Alexames

Our LO joins us during dinner at the dinner table every night, but she doesn't usually eat with us.   We put her tray w/her high chair and put a few toys for her to play with, or she tends to watch us eat.  Then we put her back in her high chair when we feed her in between her bottles.