XP from Working Moms: Starting solids: when do you find time to feed them?

rubber_chicken · November 2012

Repost from working moms (sorry, this is long!):

So LO is 5 months, and we're expecting to get the go ahead to start solids at her 6 month appointment. I want to do Baby Led Weaning, but I think I'd have this question anyway if we were doing purees: WHEN in the day do you feed your baby solids?

LO wakes up at 6:30, we just have enough time to give her a bottle and get her dressed before getting out the door at 7:20. My husband and I both eat breakfast at work. (I WFH two days, so obviously I eat at home then, but always after they've left)

LO gets home from daycare at 6pm and is asleep by 7pm. Sometimes she falls asleep on the bottle and we have to wake her up to get her cleaned up and changed and ready for bed. We eat dinner after she's gone to bed.

So, my question is, when the hell are we supposed to feed baby solids? I can't see changing her schedule at all - this is already the minimum amount of sleep she needs cuz she barely naps at daycare. Should we just scrap BLWing and send purees to daycare? Or just do solids on the weekends? How do other WMs handle this?

BuckeyeBride200 · November 2012

My sitter did BLW for me. We just told her our reasoning, reassured her that he probably wouldn't choke, and provided the food, up until he was about 1 or so. She was nervous at first, and none of the other kids did this, but she did a good job. We'll do the same with our second. We had more time at home in the PM with our baby, so dinner was possible. If you meal plan and prep dinner the night before, you could conceivably have dinner right at 6 before she goes to bed. HTH! GL!!

StefandTodd · November 2012

Our DC center provides food (it's infant through pre-K), so they just started giving him what the older kids were eating, starting at 6 months. They had no problem with BLWing.

rubber_chicken · November 2012

theresat858:
I would feed her at night... could someone pick her up from daycare earlier? We always have LO eat dinner when we eat dinner. As for breakfast, once she eats twice a day we will just be sending food to daycare with her.

unfortunately we can't change our work schedules, and with our commutes, 6 is the absolute earlier my husband can get home with the baby (he does drop off and pick up). as it is, two nights a week I get home after she's in bed.

blu-eyedwife · November 2012

That was similar to our schedule before we started BLW at 6 months, but we changed it around a bit. (And I don't have to leave the home until 7:30 the earliest, usually later).

Part of BLW emphasizes the importance of the social aspect of eating, so it was important for us that he eat meals with us. Which meant no more eating breakfast on the run, or dinner after he went to bed. This meant getting up earlier in the morning so we were completely ready to go by the time our guy woke up. Then it was nurse, and breakfast together, as a family.

During the day in the beginning if he was with us, he'd have solids at lunch. At daycare he just had breastmilk - which is really what he's using for nutrition anyway. Once we were really comfortable with his eating/intake skills (around 7.5 months) I started sending in lunches with him at daycare.

I pick my son up from daycare around 5:30 and we're all home around 6. We would do dinner fairly soon after that, in those early days, he usually needed a little nap when he got home from daycare because he was not napping well there. I used that as a time to make dinner, and he'd wake and we'd all eat together. Now he doesn't nap when he gets home and I just make sure dinner takes 20-30 minutes to make so we're all eating before 7pm. After dinner he gets a bath and goes right to bed.

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