Routines

As its been a whole two weeks I'm wondering if I should be more organised and in a routine. Our family routine consists of getting the toddler to playgroup on time and collected successfully three hours later. Meal times are pretty much on demand but can be anytime within a two hour window.

So far Goosey hasn't had breakfast - he loves lingering on his morning bf (feed for 20 mins, half an hour to play/survey his dominion and then a mini bf before going back down for his nap). Big brother has breakfast while I'm bf and by the time I'm having breakfast Goosey's in the land of nod. Today he had a second nap, no doubt out of boredom while I shopped for a replacement dishwasher, thereby missing lunch. The first meal he joined us for was toddler snack time at 4.

If Goosey had been my first I might be doing this "by the book" as BLW espouses the social aspect of food. However, there's no way I am waking him to eat - is it counter productive to have him eating on his own? The one morning I held off having breakfast he slept uncharacteristically to 11 and then refused all food.

It's still early days so we'll muddle along. I think if he's awake he'll join us and if not I'll use it as a great excuse to join him and up our fruit intake. Perhaps when he's older he'll be the odd bloke, sitting on his own at a table in Michelin star restaurant & it'll be my fault. There'd be worse things to inflict :-)