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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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Musa 8 months!

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#ea5512 Wow..can’t believe only four months to go till #musaromas first birthday! Nothing more we could ask for when seeing him energized most of the time and moving everywhere (as if he has more “batteries” than us) but patience, patience, and patience.. Some people even said we’ll be getting more tired very soon following his steps (if he can walk). Frekuensi si emak ketiduran pas ngelonin sementara bayinya mainan sendiri gagal tidur makin bertambah T_T #8monthold #8bulan #8months #turned8today #babymilestones

Tambahan krn instagram ga bisa panjang2 caption-nya grin emoticon

‪#‎development‬ Since crawling at 6 months, he gradually found the way to
＊＊＊stand up while holding furnitures, whoseever knees, or something-low-and-incapable as support with two hands＊＊＊, then
＊＊＊release one of his hands to take surrounding objects, including heavy and big ones, while standing up >> sometimes I don’t understand how he move it as well ＊＊＊, then
＊＊＊how to sit down smoothly from standing position >> this is important to avoid bumped yey!! (jadi nggak terlalu cemas lagi kalo dia mulai nggak seimbang)＊＊＊, then
＊＊＊change position while standing by holding another object (misal, beralih pegangan dari sofa ke meja)＊＊＊, and finally
＊＊＊take few steps while holding someting as support >> initial step to walk＊＊＊
Recently, often times, he also forgets to hold on when standing >> maybe only 1-3 seconds :)) alias sering lupa daratan nggak pegangan pas berdiri

‪#‎feeding‬
– His need for drinking during travelling is increasing that we give him formula milk sometimes and water between meals
– Finally..introduced to EGG (yolk) today! So far so good..
– Not meant to apply BLW too much, but in reality, he’s pretty good in eating everything by himself, so we give him foods to wean on his own everyday. His skill in controlling foods (biting, chewing, swallowing, handling gag, etc.) in the mouth is getting better and better.

‪#‎sleeping‬
– Laughing while sleeping :))
– Experiencing extreme change of sleeping time from USA to Indonesia which is 11 hours apart frown emoticon

‪#‎misc‬
– still easy going to everyone, even when meeting someone for the first time (wong jowo bilangnya “sumeh”)
– can’t understand separation yet (kalo ditinggal pergi emak babenya kagak nangis)
– suka gemes sama orang dengan cara mencakar dan teriak 😥
– hobi ngerebut gagdet dan makanan yang lagi dipegang orang dewasa 😅

Wish him be able to walk soon! 😀

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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.. 😉

Feeding-Guidelines-WIC

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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Musa Got His Passports

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Hi #musaromas, your Mama had a passport when she was 21. Your Papa got it a year ahead. You, in your 5th month of life, have been a passport holder. Not only one, even two passports. We only hope when someday you have to choose one, you don’t forget that our blood is Indonesia, but we expect that in your generation, the governments’ rule allow you to keep both and take benefits upon its #dualcitizenship, either in #USA or Indonesia. #babypassport #USPassport #USCitizen #abaikanilernya (#ea5512 story 10/13/2015)
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