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First Week Review of MPASI

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#ea5512 Sejak bulan Februari ini, kalo lihat catatan MPASI-nya, makanan Musa per harinya jauh lebih beragam dan hampir sama seperti yang dimakan Papa Mamanya. Kalo dulu saya selalu pisahkan dan siapkan khusus termasuk minuman dan cemilannya, sekarang lebih santai mau ngasih apa yang kami juga makan (dengan tetap memperhatikan kadar garam/gulanya). Saat kontrol ke dokter anaknya pun, dibilangin “just give what you eat”. Hal ini dalam rangka transisi dari makanan bayi ke makanan orang biasa (table food) usia satu tahun nanti. Berhubung Musa sudah dibiasakan makan sendiri dari awal MPASI, alhamdulillah nggak ada kesulitan berarti mengajarinya makan pakai sendok dan minum langsung dari gelas, malah belakangan dia suka nggak betahan duduk manis disuapin.

Nah, ternyata di buku Superfoods (by Annabel Karmel) juga disinggung bahwa babak perempat final tahun pertama hidup bayi ini (9-12 bulan) adalah masa-masa di mana bayi mulai tumbuh sifat nyebelinnya.. eh.. independennya 😛 pengennya bebas nggak diatur, jadi tak heran kalo banyak bayi menolak disuapin dan maunya cuma makan sendiri, makanya suka kita dengar ada bayi lagi GTM / Gerakan Tutup Mulut. Bisa jadi sebenarnya mereka bukan bermaksud nolak makan, tapi kitanya yang nggak paham..aduuuh jadi terharu kalo mikir makhluk imut gitu udah punya pilihan-pilihan personal dalam hidupnya.

Dalam tahap ini, finger foods (makanan yang bisa dipegang oleh bayi) mempunyai peran penting dan dianjurkan mendorong bayi untuk bereksperimen dengan sendok dan belajar mengunyah karena tekstur makanannya udah harus lebih kasar daripada puree (bubur). Pengalaman sejauh ini sih, metode BLW (Baby Led Weaning) yang kami terapkan pada level pertengahan (tidak 100%) memang sangat membantu perkembangan bayi dalam hal makan (koordinasi mata dan tangannya, kontrol porsi yang masuk mulut, mengunyah, menelan, mengeluarkan makanan kalo tersedak, menjumput makanan kecil, meremas, memotong, dll.).

Silakan dicoba kalo belum mulai, apalagi kalo si bayi udah masuk usia 9 bulan kaya Musa. BTW maap videonya nggak nyambung.. cuma rekaman makannya Musa sehari-hari aja. Wkwk.

Foto dan resepnya menyusul di album “Musa’s Meals Diary”.

Posted from Ega Dioni Putri’s Facebook

Month 2 Review of Musa’s Eating

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Continuing my review about what Musa had eaten in his first year of life, here I’d like to write ONLY the NEW foods he consumed in the second month, which were not listed on Month 1 Review. This way is expected to encourage me for introducing larger variety of types of foods to him in the future.

Notes for this month:

  • Rice is made in porridge texture, not as fine as puree
  • Chicken and beef are still in the same texture as the first month: boiled while making for broth, minced in blender, sauteed with butter / oil before served

Month 2 Review (7 month old >> Dec 8, 2015 – Jan 7, 2016)

Food Summary

Grains

  • Long-grain white rice [based on Guide to Rice]
  • Wild (red) rice [based on Guide to Rice]
  • Toast from whole wheat bread
  • Bread @airplane.. don’t know the name, haha

Vegetables

  • Baby corn
  • Beets
  • Cabbage
  • Edamame
  • Radish (daikon)
  • Zucchini

as spices/seasonings:

  • Galangal
  • Coriander

Fruits

  • Apple
    • “Manalagi” variety
  •  Banana
    • “Gros Michael” variety (Pisang Ambon)
    • “Saba” variety (Pisang Kepok), similar to plaintain
  • Cantaloupe
  • Cherry
  • Dragon fruit
  • Grapes
  • Mango
    • “Harum manis” variety
  • Papaya
  • Pineapple
  • Young coconut
  • Watermelon (red, yellow)

Milk (Dairy Products)

  • Cream cheese

Meats and Beans

  • Tempe
  • Indonesian tofu (tahu)
  • Indonesian cage-free chicken (ayam kampung)
  • Egg

** Non-food **

Oils

  • Palm oil

Drinks

  • Young coconut water

** Snack or Finger foods **

  • Baby rice cracker / baby senbei

Menu List

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How does Musa look when eating them all? Check it out on my Facebook: Musa’s Meals Diary

Month 1 Review of Musa’s Eating

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This post is related to a photo album on my FB: Musa’s Meals Diary

If you have read my post about welcoming solid foods for Musa and the review in the first week, you may want to know what he finally ate up to now. When I’m writing this review, he’ll become 9 months within two days, so almost three months of eating! (Read: what I mean with eating is consuming solid foods besides milk feeding.. :D)

Hello, yummy foods! :D

Hello, yummy foods! (no, he’s not lefthanded :P)

I set up environment, routine, and style since the day 1 in giving Musa solids, but it was little disrupted in the second month when we went home country for three weeks. I didn’t wean him ideally during our stay in Indonesia because we traveled either inside or out of city/town almost every day. Time and tools to cook were limited as well, so before we settled at my parents home in the last week, I relied on jarred/tubed fruits/vegetables we brought from USA and also the fresh produces we got locally. Thanks to Allah, I found it was easy to serve him raw fruits/vegetables while being mobile. I wonder if his self-feeding habit has trained him to be such independent eater.

The review similar to this post will be made in series for six months of eating and I’m gonna make summary of the new foods for each month. I’m not 100% following recommendation about time to give particular food, but I find that Wholesome Baby Food website is nice to use for checking the reasons, so you can estimate the risk when you choose to differ. For example, broccoli is not recommended as the first food because it triggers gas (yet, I still gave Musa it in this first month and he was okay.. hahaha).

Besides the food summary, I also include a table containing meals of the month. Since I don’t make meal plan for Musa’s baby food (err.. I meant, I ‘write’ it in my head :D), the list helps me to trace what I’ve given to the baby from nutrition viewpoint.

Here is notes to keep in mind (must read! don’t get lost) while reading the review:

  • The links I put on items in Food Summary refer to the products we consumed
  • Food groups (Grains, Vegetables, etc.) are following USDA guide. For multiple food groups in a mealtime, the letters of food groups initials such as (g) for grain, (v) for vegetable, (f) for fruit, (p) for protein (meats, beans, fishes, etc.), and (d) for dairy products are indicated before or after the food name in Meal List table. To reduce confusion while reading, fat is not indicated because it’s almost always used in cooking.
  • Empty cell in Meal List table does not always mean that Musa skipped the meal, but it could be the meal was missed to be logged
  • The use of punctuation in Meal List table:
    • Plus (+) means multiple foods are mixed into one food and may change their basic structure, e.g. : white rice + chicken broth = the rice is cooked with broth
    • Comma (,) means multiple foods are eaten together or separately in a mealtime, most likely without changing their basic structure
  • Musa is half self-feeding baby and we adopt BLW (Baby Led Weaning) rule in terms of giving baby foods in its original structure without making it into puree. In the Meal List table, if you see his meal is fruits or vegetable with no cooking method preceding / following or written with “…cuts”, it means he ate a la BLW baby.

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Story of Musa Romas and His Meal

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It’s been a week Musa started eating solids. Here is the video of his mealtime taken at the Day 8. Curious, messy, and so eager to chew the foods 🙂

Sudah seminggu kemarin Musa resmi menikmati MPASI. Seperti apa gambaran mealtime-nya? Kurang lebih sama kaya yang ada di video ini.

Rebutan sendok, super cemong, teriak-teriak, gebrak-gebrak meja, kaki diangkat satu kaya di warung.. Aah, forget about table manner lah pokoknya :)) Sebenarnya tiap jenis makanan baru yang dikenalkan selalu ada foto dan videonya, tapi mana sempat, bo, buat bikin kompilasinya.. ini aja bikinnya sambil tiduran nyusuin 😀

Nah, berhubung tahap MPASI ini merupakan dilema banyak orang tua baru, saya mau berbagi sedikit pandangan tentang metode yang beredar di luar sana dan pilihan pribadi kami. Continue reading →

Welcome, Solid Foods!

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Before I tell you about Musa’s solid foods experience, I would like to remind you an important thing: please don’t judge the choice made by the other parents in raising their children even though it goes against your beliefs. As some “peace campaign” has been sounded recently, we all know that when it comes to the parenthood, there’s no the most correct way for parenting and every parent, either blood or foster parent, knows the best for his / her own children. Here I’d like to share our opinion as new parents, which is, in many ways, book oriented 😛

I want to say here that, in case of feeding, we’ve been choosing ‘experimental’ path 😀 We welcomed pacifier and bottle for Musa since he was born. Some institutions, including WIC program I’m joining, count both as things not to offer for exclusive breastfeeding (you may say that I’m not exclusively breastfeeding.. it’s fine :P). However, pacifier worked extremely well to soothe our baby. Super helpful for the first two months (after 2 mo, Musa refused to suck on a pacifier and chose his fingers instead :D). Newborn baby has strong instinct in sucking.. all the time! even when his tummy is full, so pacifier is the answer 🙂

Meanwhile, the bottle is necessary for feeding my expressed breast milk and we’ve used it since Musa was three day olds because he got jaundice and I had to boost his intake of milk both from breast milk and formula. Formula milk was given to him only for one and half day at that time, but it meant a lot to solve his poop problem. Alhamdulillah, he’s a very easy baby on this matter. He’d be able to drink milk from the bottle since then.. masha Allah! And we continue giving him bottle-feeding each time we go out. I usually pump my breast milk in the night before or once we arrived home from outing, when the breasts are full because baby isn’t drinking a lot. I’m a happy Mama who doesn’t always need to be bothered for public breastfeeding. Hahaha.. 😉

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Feeding guidelines from WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) >> look at the first column, it’s written that pacifier and bottle shouldn’t be offered to baby in the 1st month

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