Stop. Dinnertime!
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Topic: Stop. Dinnertime!
Posted By: pepsi
Subject: Stop. Dinnertime!
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 4:46pm
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Just wondering what time you ladies give your baby/kiddies dinner? I've always fed Alyssa dinner at about 5pm but I'm starting to wonder if it's too early? DH and I usually eat ours around 5:30pm so we like to have her fed so she'll sit in the exersaucer in peace while we eat (which she does - mostly)..
Also, do you give your baby dessert after dinner? If so, do you give it straight after or wait a while? |
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 4:51pm
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We all eat together at 5.30. One of us feeds Hannah and ourselves, then we swap. Or I make Hannahs meal easier for her to eat with hands. I like the family time with us all sitting at the table together. No we dont do dessert. Han has bath after tea, then milk, brush teeth bed. ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 5:05pm
| Erin has dinner at 6pm, and DH usually get ours underway while I am feeding her. Then she can play while we have our meal, and I give her a bottle about 7pm, bedtime at 7:30pm. Sometimes she gets dessert, sometimes not, but if we do it's usually straight after her meal. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 6:43pm
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Tyrell gets dinner between 6 & 6.30. We are up to all finger food, so he will eat his on his own now. He will get either a piece of fruit or a rice craker straight after. |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 7:26pm
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OMgosh thats freaky...Thats exactly what I do at the same time lol, the exersaucer and everything ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
pepsi wrote:Posted By: thunderwolves
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 8:03pm
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Ethan has dinner at about 5.00ish, then he has a bath and gets ready for bed, he has dessert, usually apple museli right before his bed time bottle, not so much as a dessert, but he sleeps really well on a really full tummy. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 8:16pm
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we feed Rhyley at arnd 6 - 6.30.I normally like to hv dinner altogether. he doesn't hv desert. ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 8:19pm
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wow they have dinner late...rhi has her dinner between 4.30 and 5pm,(unless we are out)...bath at 5.45pm and in bed by 6.30pm. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 8:32pm
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James has tea around 5, he doesn't have dessert and is in bed by 7pm ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: jamesmum
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 8:36pm
| We eat as a family at about 5:30 and James sometimes has dessert. |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 8:59pm
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Lol at the title of the post Pepsi!!!!!
I've got M C Hammer stuck in my head now  ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 10:33pm
Haha...I was wondering if anyone clicked! I thought it would end up being an inside joke with just me giggling
I don't think it would be possible for us to eat dinner without the magical exersaucer, it's a godsend! Thanks for your replies ladies, I'm glad to hear we're not the only ones feeding her at 5pm... And I asked about the dessert because I find that if I give her anything after her dinner she gets a sore tummy and I wondered if that was normal?... It's almost like the savoury and sweet just don't mix well with her and often results in a spew. We usually give her a bath around 6pm and bed at about 6:45pm and I wasn't sure if people fed dinner closer to bedtime than that.. |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 09 June 2007 at 10:38pm
I feed Krystiana (baby rice or pears) at about 5pm so I can have my dinner in relative "peace"  but Hannah and Briona eat with us, between 5.30 and 6pm. We only occasionally have dessert (sometimes we even have dessert only for ourselves) and if we do that I dish them less dinner and ask them to finish what's on their plate first. My girls usually have a bigger breakfast than dinner.
Briona needs bed at 6.30 and Hannah 7. Although that may all change soon cause I'm dropping a sleep per day for both of them. -------------  |
Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 10 June 2007 at 10:10am
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Caitlin has a big meal at 12pm (her lunch) then fruits and finger food at 4pm, and some vegies that I'm cooking for dinner at around 6pm. Bath at 6.30, bottle then bed at 7
Perhaps I should swap her "dinner" times?!?! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
 
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Posted By: Spudling
Date Posted: 10 June 2007 at 1:20pm
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We all eat around 5.45-6pm and Cailin goes to bed at 7.30
PS, I did get the hammer time thing, I probably wouldn't have opened the post if you had just called it dinner time...tee hee, good marketing Pepsi ------------- http://tickers.families.com"> 
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 11 June 2007 at 5:09pm
i have hammertime in my head now too
we all eat at the same time which is usually 5.30pm. sometimes if i know DH is going to be later (6ish) i'll feed charli before he gets home. the kids don't get dessert unless we feel generous 
bathtime every other night and bedtime for charli about 6.30ish and jack is 7.30pm ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 11 June 2007 at 8:12pm
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we have dinner all together at 5:30, well, me and the boys, and Lewis if he's home that night. because he is home on Sunday, we have dessert on that night. Jake used to watch "THe zoo" on sunday nights so was allowed his jelly or whatever while watching. Taine is older though, so he feeds himself. Because of that, the boys have a bath STRAIGHT after dinner, and then a bottle and bed, between 6:30 and 7, whatever Jake decides. He asks to go to bed usually - strange kid I know, but I'm not knocking it!!
I'm not entirely sure if eating togther has done this, but both boys eat really well, and both eat with cutlery remarkably well for children their ages (well, usually - at times taine eats weetbix with his hands...ick ick ick) |