15 month old gagging on 'lumpy food'

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my dd is 15 months old and she still cant take any lumps in her food. it has to be litrally liquidized or she gags and chokes. she has lots of teeth (back ones too) and i can see she is chewing. the amount of times we have had to bash her back is unreal! my older two dd's didnt do this. she had silent reflux until a year old..dont know if thats relevent..but im starting to think that her throat is too small (does that make sense?) i see friends babies younger than this tucking in to their food that is only cut up and they cant believe im still giving her 'baby food' has anyone else experienced this? if so what age did they eat 'normally'?

anyone?

Hi no advice as such but DD is same. Just posted on another thread about this as she had a recent episode of vomiting blood due to her reflux making her sick all the time-she tore athe lining of her stomach so was nothing serious and over a month ago but she can gag on v watery porridge! Then i see other babies chewing on bread etc. If i give her anything to eat as finger foods she ignores it, when i put it in her mouth she chokes! I know how frustrating it is, hope someone can offer advice.

u2bthin..thats horrible for you and dd i hope she is ok!

One of mine was like this. All you can do is keep liquidising her food, adding a very small quantity of tiny lumps as you go on. Make sure you give her plenty of different foods so that she gets used to different flavours. Just give her time. Don't push it at all. Keep the liquidised stuff quite thin for a while. Add warm milk or gravy to keep it thin.

thanks changedit. how old was yours when they started eating normally?

19!! He was at university and his girlfriend there got him onto normal food. Don't worry, yours won't be that extreme. I didn't follow my own advice at the time and we got into some right pickles.

blimey!! lol. thanks. i do try to add little lumps but it scares me when she chokes! i will persevere with it though.

I wouldn't worry too much, my son was exactly the same I was still giving him liquidised food at 2!!!! but now he is 6 and eating me out of house and home. I just started him off on strips of cucumber with the skin cut off, eventually he picked it up and started eating it and then i started introuding other soft finger foods - hope this helps

Don't worry, just liquidise. Both mine were like this, and I got so fed up with people exclaiming, Oh! Don't they eat LUMPS yet? As if it was a huge developmental issue. My mum said I was awful, really high gag reflex, so maybe it's inherited. I honestly can't remember when they grew out of it, but I do remember giving up on weetabix and mashed banana as it all used to get heaved back up, and they didn't eat toast for ages.

thanks i feel so much better...i too am fed up with the comments so i know what you mean!

Hi any update on your dd ? Going through the same .. did it correct himself in the end ?

@Vittoria123 Very possibly a tongue tie… I see this all of the time.

GP/Health Visitor etc may have said no tie, but the only people to accurately diagnose or rule out are IBCLC’s and Tongue tie practitioners. I’d have your little one checked.

All 3 of mine were tied. My 14 year old DD did the gagging/choking on solids until she learned to compensate for it, which caused dental issues.

My younger 2 have had their ties revised and had proper aftercare and have zero issues with food.