Letting your baby feed themselves is very very mucky.
Though I think I may have made it muckier today.
I'd made vegetable stew and dumplings. This is one of my favourite meals and when I like something I make sure the bowl is totally emptied I've finished. I think this is a very northern working class thing but at the end of my meal I licked my plate!
If you haven't done it before you really should try it, especially if you've had chips and gravy!
Anyway, as I finished licking the plate I turned around to see Anya doing exactly the same thing. She was covered in stew but she had a huge smile on her face. Oh well, food is fun.
P.S. I must add, after looking at my previous posts, that Anya is still breastfed and we managed to overcome the little blip that she went through a while ago. She had a morning and evening feed and two daytime feeds just before she has a nap if she wants. If we're out she sometimes skips the daytime feeds but she doesn't seem fazed by it. And since she's been in her own room she sleeps through (mainly, touch wood!) which is GREAT. I still don't want to stop feeding her yet so I'm very happy with how things are going. Let's hope the weaning process can be a joint decision.
