How do working parents do this? I’m so overwhelmed getting ONE meal in a day, I can’t imagine how we’re fitting in more?

Both me and my husband work full time. Right now our baby is 6 months old and has been eating solids for 2 maybe 3 weeks. I’ve been very overwhelmed trying to keep up with offering him foods. We have been doing a lot of mashed foods since neither of us are trained on choking and I was shocked at the cost of baby cpr classes for ONE of us to attend. I’m still not sure what our plan is there.

It’s also tough to even prepare the food let alone offer it in time before bed. My husband gets home with bub around 4:30. If I WFH, I feed him immediately. If I’m coming from the office I don’t get home til close to 5:30 and feed him then. Anyways then we have to start cooking dinner immediately. We are lucky if dinner is on the table by 6. Usually it is 6:15. But the problem is, 6:30 is my baby’s bed time. He is SO fussy by 6. I put him in his high chair usually right before 6 so I can start feeding him. He only lasts a few minutes before rubbing his eyes and crying and I have to still get him in the bath before rocking to sleep.

I can’t figure out how to get him his food any sooner since we physically can’t get dinner cooked faster. Even if it’s a quick purée, I honestly can’t feed him too much sooner due to when he last nursed. Like yesterday I got home at 5:30, nursed him, and then had to immediately try and feed him. He didn’t eat anything, just played with it and fussed because he was tired.

Then I hear we’re supposed to be at 2 meals by 7 months??? How? How are people doing this???