Journey with You

My precious Cyrus is 5 months and 2 days old today. There is no regular checkup this month so I don’t exactly know how much he weighs. He is getting big, that’s for sure.

He laughs out load a lot these days. When I nurse him, he would stop and look at me. I smile and he smiles. I laugh and he would laugh too. He is just so adorable!! I love him SO MUCH!!

He’s been able to finish 2 tablespoon of rice cereal with 2 ounces of milk (I sometimes use pumped breast milk, other times formula.) I’ve been giving him rice cereal first thing in the morning and am thinking to give him rice cereal other times of the day as well. I also would like to try other vegetables soon. It’s going to be so much fun when he can eat more variety of food. I still want to continue breastfeeding as long as he wants it though.

I’ve noticed that he would have chewing motion even when there is no food in his mouth. Possibly practicing?

I took him with me to a government office the other day. There was a sign: NO FOOD, NO DRINKS. The security guy asked me if I had any food and drinks with me. I said no. He said “really? Not even for the baby?” I just realized another good thing about breastfeeding: no security issue. Hehe!!

He naps twice a day. Usually two hours in the morning and another hour in the afternoon. Sometimes another half hour in the evening. He sleeps totally about 14 hours. I am still hoping he can sleep longer at night though. Sleeping and eating kind of goes hand in hand. If he can’t sleep longer than it’s really hard to let him sleep on his own. It’s really a win-win to co-sleep if he needs to nurse a few times at night.

He poos once a day now, which is normal now. Thank goodness. When he was sick a month ago and poo a few times a day, it really was a lot of work.