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Trouble with stage 2 feeding!

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SophieB · 03/04/2007 12:39

Im having some trouble with my 7 month old and stage 2 feeding! i started giving him stage 2 food for a couple of days but he isnt taking to it very well, im not sure if its because its lumpy and not sure of it. when i do feed him he spits it out or leaves it on his tongue so the food rolls off on to the highchair, or he heaves as if his going to be sick. ive tried everything i can think of, warming the food up, giving him tiny bits on the spoon, letting him have a play with the food. Is this normal? he was fine with stage 1 but stage 2 at the moment is a battle!! will he get over the lumps?

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3easterbunniesandnomore · 03/04/2007 12:48

Give him fingerfoods, that way your lil one will get accustomed to lumps at his own time....
There is no need for pureed food at all, anyway....

Jonut · 03/04/2007 23:23

My 7month old is exactly the same, gagging, spitting it out and she even shouts at me everytime I put a spoonful in her mouth! I have found though that she will eat the jars with pasta, such as spaghetti bolognaise, lasagne, etc. This way she still gets used to lumpier food but the lumps are not quite as hard

olliebird · 03/04/2007 23:50

my mum always puts dob of butter on the warm food and first spoon is mostly warm melted butter, then more of other food. If your baby is a butter lover this may work. Also my mum used to liquidise sunday lunch (roast chicken, roast potatoes and gravy) and babies always lap it up, ie give them something which really is delish.
Maybe stage one to stage two should be a gradual process so liquidise but just not quite so smooth.
Also very important to concentrate on a range of tastes as well as texture, so maybe you are actually doing really well, getting in all the flavours early is really important and makes life easier later on.
good luck

cruisemum1 · 04/04/2007 10:28

sophie - i hadto revert to pureeing/mashong. ds screams his head off at lumpy food and gags/chokes.

3easterbunniesandnomore · 04/04/2007 12:01

see...now that is something that BLW avoids in the first place...lol...they never get used to purely smushed consistency...
shuddering at the idea of liquidised sunday dinner....but that is more a personal thing...as I had several facial/oral operations and had phases of having to eat "liquidised" food, and it tastes as gross as it looks...shudder....

CoteDAzur · 04/04/2007 16:39

Each baby is different, but 7 months might be a bit early for lumpy food. How many teeth does your lo have? Until he has the sides of her mouth fairly full of teeth, I would stay away from lumpy food - especially as you say he gags.

Then again, I don't really know what you mean by "lumpy stage 2 food", since I make DD's food myself. Exlusively, from the moment I noticed the evil taste of those packaged baby foods.

A simple recipe to do yourself at home, with very soft lumps: put tomatoes, onions, courgettes, and aubergines into a pot with some water and cook until all is soft. Cut into smaller pieces before serving.

If your lo is not used to eating vegetables, it helps to put half a cube of sugar into the mix while you cook.

Hope that helps xxx

MrsBadger · 04/04/2007 16:43

pardon my ignorance, but what is Stage 2 food? Is this an Annabel Karmel thing?

If it's just lumpier purées, it may be that he's not up to handling sucking lumps off a spoon that's offered to him (try it yourself, don't chew or anything, just suck off the spoon. Hard, eh?).
Can he handle a spoon himself? Or finger food? Babies have very tough gums - no need to wait for actual teeth to start on steamed carrot sticks, toast fingers etc.

NineUnlikelyTales · 04/04/2007 16:43

There is no need to avoid lumps if your LO doesn't have teeth at the side or anywhere in fact. My DS hasn't got a tooth in his head yet, but today he ate a huge piece of toast cut from a proper loaf. Those gums are quite hard in themselves.

coleyboy · 04/04/2007 16:50

I tried to go from pureed to mashed veg, but I think it was a bit of a jump, however AK baby pasta stars with cream cheese was a winner with my ds when I moved away from purees. Or adding pasta to yoghurt (which seems to be a fav with every baby).

Also mashed (but leave some texture) avocado as it is fatty and creamy - oh banana is good too.

CoteDAzur · 04/04/2007 16:55

You people are brave. I was too scared to see DD gagging and turning red when she tried to swallow the pieces before she had the teeth to properly chew them with.

NineUnlikelyTales · 04/04/2007 16:56

Cotedazur my DS has only gagged a few times and never gone red in the face, so maybe I would feel differently if he did that.

MrsBadger · 04/04/2007 16:59

but gagging is different to choking

gagging is a v efficient way for a baby to move food from the back to the front of her mouth when she decides she doesn't want to swallow that bit, and isn't dangerous at all (though it can look a bit scary to us)

choking is where food actually gets stuck and the baby can't shift it.

If they've been used to slurping liquidy puree off spoons in the same way they suck milk from the breast / bottle they may come a cropper when they first meet lumpy purees as they can't suck those down in the same way and have to learn a new technique to deal with them.

Putting them in control of what goes in their mouth (eg finger food, loading the spoon and handing it to them) can help them sort it out.

3easterbunniesandnomore · 04/04/2007 17:26

Cotedazur...if you truely want to wait till your Baby got the right equipment you would have to wait till they like 2+...basically till the time their Back teeth are coming in...as those other gnashers don't really do teh chewing bit, lol!
All they need is gums and fingertfoods...and then they may need help with things like weetabix or yoghurt....things my dk were happy being fed of a spoon, lol....

CoteDAzur · 04/04/2007 17:41

DD has been eating solids (lumps, pieces, crusts and all) since she was about 10 months old.

I didn't say wait until all teeth are out. I said 7 months might be a bit early.

It's just my personal view. I just didn't think there was any rush to get my baby to be munching on stuff, especially as I hated to see her gag (or "choke", if you prefer. Looks darn simillar when your darling baby gasps for breath and turns crimson).

MrsBadger · 04/04/2007 17:43

Sorry, CdA, the gasping for breath bit might well have been choking - I wasn't there so can't claim to know - but there is a difference.

3easterbunniesandnomore · 04/04/2007 17:54

sorry cotedazur, I just meant the teeth they have first really don't have any function with chewing really, as it is the backteeth that have that function, IYKWIM...
I did babyled weaning mainly...i.e. fingerfoods, and didn't actually expect them to eat much, as I don't find that necessary...i.e. blw

3easterbunniesandnomore · 04/04/2007 17:56

but yes, it's of course not nice to see you child choking, but must admit, mine never did it, as they couldn't chew big bits off anyway...no teeth until 10+ month old....lol...gummy lil things they were until then...but they rasp and gummed and that sort of tended to get the ther giht sized pieces, most of the time....not sure if that amkes sense...

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