It is ok, but you want to be careful she is still hungry for boobie - that's why they say only after a feed, and that's what i mean by starting with just a little bit.
In FACT.... how about, if you give her food at 7/7.30am-ish you might find she'll go to 11am before her next BF in which case lunch at midday will be perfect. Until she's a good bit bigger milk should be her main food, but some babies just DO decide they want to feed less often. So long as she's growing and developing and happy, you just keep feeding when she asks and offering if she doesn't ask but you'd like to feed her.
Babies her age often feed less because everything is suddenly so interesting, and feeding takes time and focus which would (in their minds) be better spent trying to get the fridge open or hiding mummy's credit cards under the sofa. In addition they start to get more mobile which often means their weight gain slows down, because they're using more calories. Self-weaning when babies are this young is more often a result of being too distracted to feed properly and weight gain slowing down which makes mums increase solids and sometimes comp feed with formula. THen it spirals - you can crawl round the floor with a bottle but you can't with the boobie, so breast refusal during more awake times might become an issue and so bottles remain.
I'm only saying all this so you know that this is more likely to be a developmental stage than a true self-weaning. She sounds like she's doing really really well just now, you're doing everything right.
I cannot BELIEVE she is 6 months old already. DD is going on 2! Where does the time go?
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