munch munch munch............................... munch munch munch

My daughter has been replaced by a gannet! Her appetite has well and truly returned and she's opening her mouth wide and leaning forward for the spoon/fork if you aren't quick enough for her. And that's something new in itself, she is so much more receptive to being fed at the moment. I know, I know, its not BLW. But then we didn't start out to do BLW and being able to feed her, when required, means she can eat more of the things that we habitually eat. Which IS, in my opinion, the whole point of BLW anyway. We still stop feeding her the minute she pushes us away and lots of the meal, wherever possible, is still put on her tray so she can do it herself. That way she is definitely in control of how much she is eating rather than us, which is very very important. But its been much more of a halfway house these last couple of days which is definitely less stressful all round.

Tonight ds decided he wanted chicken fingers so together with daddy he egged, breadcrumbed and then baked some strips of chicken, to go with vegetable chilli & rice. Naomi could have had the fingers as they were home-made but DH wanted to have a go at making her an omelette as only I have so far. He chose the newest of our frying pans which I had thought to be a bit on the large side, except it isn't really. And he produced an omelette that Jamie Oliver would have been proud of, rather than my rather more 'unstructured' looking offerings. Stuffed with chicken, tomato, red pepper, cheese, courgette and spinach it was a lovely meal for Naomi and she was duly appreciative! I was very pleased with the spinach going in because its so full of iron. Although, as someone told me the other day, broccoli is very iron rich and the fact that she loves potatoes, which are full of Vitamin C, will really help, since Vitamin C aids iron absorption.

For pudding we had baked apples stuffed with mincemeat. Another first! Naomi ate more of an apple tonight than I have ever seen. Will have to do those again since we all like them too ;-) She's back on full strength milk as well so hopefully no repetition of last night when she had 3/4 strength 5oz of milk at 12am and 3am as well as yelling for more milk not long after 7. I should think she's having a growth spurt as well as a return to form.