1yr old feeding...

Just have a couple of questions regarding feeding...

1. For those non-BLW when did your DS/DD start eating what you eat, and how did you prepare it so it was eatable for them? At the moment I'm putting whatever we have for dinner in the mixer (we have a mini one) and whizz it for about 5 seconds so that it's still quite chunky.
Also, when did you start eating dinner at the same time as them? We are still eating after DD goes down for the night (around 7pm). DD eats at 5:30, but we're both not hungry then and I'm just not in the mood to cook tea at 4:30/5pm!

2. How many feeds/bottles were you giving at 11/12 months?

3. How did you teach your little one to drink milk from a sippy cup? DD drinks fine from a straw, but just plays with the sippy cup.

Thanks

i didnt BLW with my two older boys but by 12 months they were both eating what we eat... i tried my older boy on those toddler meals in the jar and he hated them! dont blame him really, they smelt bad let alone the taste. I have always tried to eat together as a family, my husband gets home at 6.30 and that is when we have dinner.

Good questions jaxs.

We sometimes give Cooper our leftovers the next night like I've given him bacon and egg pie a couple of times and carbornara a couple of times but I still add veges and stuff for him. But mainly I just do something separate for now. But I don't whizz it up or anything anymore I just give him it chopped into bite size pieces or sometimes I see if he can bite bits off (but that's risky as he might throw the whole thing off the side). I was wondering about the whole eating together too, we'd be ok to eat at 6pm, but DS eats at 5pm, so I think we're still awhile off that too.

We're on 3 feeds per day, sometimes he might get one in the night too if he's sick/teething or being restless and I want some sleep. But then he isn't very interested in his morning bottle.   I think the morning one is going to be the first to go for us, but if I can get him eating cereal at some point there will be milk in that, so that's ok I guess.

Haven't tried milk in a cup yet.