BLW - gagging and vomiting

[Cazwa]

My 7mo DD tonight ate half a banana and was munching on a chip-shaped piece of hard cheese, started to gag loads then vomited up everything including the bottle she'd had an hour before. She was fine, not v upset, but I am starting to get upset with BLW as this is not the first time shes done this.

I know that babies need to learn to eat solids and the gag reflex is part of that learning process, but how much vomiting should accompany this, if any? Shes probably vommed up at least 5 times in the past month, on a range of things that I thought would have been fine for her to eat.

Im losing my nerve a bit, am worried about feeding her in public.
Ive already told nursery to give up on BLW this week with her as Im too worried she'll gag and vom. Im the first mum to do BLW and although they go along with it I sense a bit of 'who is this nutty mum?'. I posted on here last week about it.

As anyone got any experience of this? Is it normal? Do puree-fed babies vom up whilst learning to eat?

[terramum]

DS vommed up iirc quite a lot when he gagged too much at the start of weaning (blw). It didnt bother him in the slightest...he start re-eating it if we werent quick enough clearing it up . It got better eventually - I think it just takes them a little while to get used to moving the food around their mouth & avoid triggering the gag reflex.

[TrishaYates]

dd did vom a few times. what i found absolutely amazing was that it came out very mucousy and lubricated, almost as if that was how it was supposed to work, iykwim, to help clear the blockages.

for the record by 7 months i was a bit over the chip shaped thing... i think there are a few things that gill rapley kinda got wrong if i;m honest. dd did better with slices of cheese, say 3-4mm thick or so, whereas a chip-shape of cheese was likely to break off.

also i've never met a child who actually uses the convenient handle on broccolli... i guess that becasue she wasn't doing blw herself Gill Rapley will actually have got it wrong a wee bit, not unsurprisingly.

see if making the pieces bigger rather than smaller helps. i found that we started off with chips, then large pieces and then wehn the pincer grip starts to develop dd got obsessed with picking up teeny things. good luck if you decide to continue, and if you don't and BLW isn't really for you two then you'll be fine with purees of course.

[deaconblue]

Went to the doctors this week to ask about this very issue. Ds is 10 months and has a really horrible gag reflex where he pukes the entire contents of his stomach whenever he gags on food. I was worried about the puking as I understand the gagging is normal. She said some babies just do this, once they gag they can't stop the whole lot coming back. She said he'll grow out of the gagging and therefore the puking too. I got the impression she thought he would learn to deal with this quicker because he's having pieces of proper food rather than mush, so maybe BLW will be better for your dd long term on the gagging front

[Cazwa]

Its reassuring that Im not the only one who has had this happen. I should have added that it doesnt seem to bother her in the slightest when she does vom.

Interesting about the not making it chip shaped. Will try thin slices, perhaps its the big lumps breaking off chipshaped things that are troubling her.

BTW I fed her today in a cafe and she did fine, apart from throwing lots on the floor!

[deaconblue]

Ds never seems to mind either. He likes to slap his hand in the puddle of puke on his highchair tray The straps end up in the washing machine regularly though as they reek of sick

[AitchTwoOh]

there was a thing on the yahoo newsgroup today about this, and someone said that their paed friend said that it was only vomiting if it smelled funny, other than that it was still possetting, iykwim? glad that things were better today.

[deaconblue]

Ds' smells like adult puke. Gross

[AitchTwoOh]

oh that is gross. how yuck. dd had a huge tantrum last night and managed to make herself sick all over her cot... i don't think CC is for us. (first and last time, took precisely ten minutes til we heard her being sick). so that was her bedding in the washing machine...

[deaconblue]

we've tried cc before, it's grim. I think all we taught ds was to be stubborn and mummy would give in. have you tried pick up put down? It's going quite well for us at the moment.

[AitchTwoOh]

well, to be fair to the 'technique' it was less CC and more 'she's been moany all day and IJUSTCAN'TSTANDITANYMORE!' she's getting her molars and premolars all in a oner and she has been very gurny indeed, which is a bit of a drag as i am a Bad Mother who only really likes the fun bits and gets a bit short when there's whinging going on.
so we left her, thinking that she was fed, watered and drugged with medised so she'd calm down but no, she found hitherto unknown gears... i'll take her out and get her knackered today and hopefully she'll go down better tonight. i think her will and personality are beginning to assert themselves. DH has laughed and said that i don't like that she is turning out to have the same temperament as me. true.

[deaconblue]

Baby will power is astounding isn't it? I taught teenage boys for years and never let them win, ds wins in seconds if I'm not careful. Hope you get a better night tonight Aitch.
Was thinking about gagging on cheese too, it's one of the worst gag causers for ds. I think a big lump of cheese seems to clag up his mouth when he's chewing it, hence gagging. I've been cutting the cheese as small as he can still pick up and only let him put one bit in at a time, that seems to help