twelve month old won't eat lumpy food

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My twelve month old baby will only eat pureed food. If it has the slightest lump in it he throws it back up. I think he might not be chewing his food. Any ideas?

Have you tried finger food?

I have tried to feed him lumpy food but he eats some of it and then the whole lot plus a bit extra comes back up. He seems to not want to chew anything. He eats anything as long as its pureed!

Has he ever eaten any finger food, ie toast, rice cake etc? If so then why not try him with big chunks of things like carrots.

would second and third the suggestion re finger food !!!

a finger of toast or cheese, or a steamed baton of courgette would be a good start, or a rice cake...

My DS likes to eat broccoli florets. Would not eat it in bite size pieces but likes to pick them up and take bites out of them. Same for asparagus and cauliflower. When I was trying to move him from smooth puree to lumpy food he did struggle a bit, and will still sometimes spit lumps out if they are bigger than expected when he is being spoonfed (he is 13 months now), however never had such a severe reaction as your LO. Do also notice that if I spoon the food into his mouth he doesn't always chew it, however with the finger food he knows he will have to chew, so it helps him get used to chewing food.

Sorry, not very good at explaining...

I suppose im a bit scared to give him finger food in case he just puts it in his mouth and tries to swallow it whole! My other son who is two had no problems like this but then again we had more time to spend getting him used to different textures etc.
I know the youngest wants to eat different food because he alwayscomes over if im eating a piece of bread or something like that. Maybe i should put some very small pieces of cheese on his tray and see how he gets on.

I don't know if you've heard of baby led weaning, quite a hot topic on here at the minute. A search for it will give you loads of ideas for finger food.

Anyway, we did it with ds right from the start of his weaning at 6 months and it really worked for us. It involves giving babies chunks of food rather than purees. If you give him a fist sized bit of toast or whatever he won't be able to put it all in his mouth at once. DS has never choked and only gagged twice in 6 months - it's perfectly safe!

Just re-read your post and noticed you mentioned very small pieces of cheese - actually they are more likely to choke on smallish pieces of food, as far as I know. If he has seen you eating toast etc you'll be amazed at how quickly he'll get used to it.

I would agree with Percy. If I give DS something small, he will put the whole thing in his mouth and try to swallow it whole. If i give him a breadstick (for example), he will take bite-size pieces and chew (and mash it into the carpet etc). I was terrified the first time I gave him a rice cake in case he choked, but so far he has only ever choked when he tried to eat a whole sausage and I had to tip him upside down!

have a look at BLW blog

That tipping your child upside down sausage incident has made me laugh.
He is teething as well so i think he is looking for things to chew including my leg!

Took all your advice on board and bit the bullet. I gave my youngest a rusk to have a go at this morning. There was plenty of gagging, choking and puking but he kept on and managed to eat quite a lot of it