Retching - aaaaarrrrhhhh!

[Mummysurfer]

My ds2 age 4 is a fuusy eater. Anyhting new he won't willingly try, when I force him to (not phycically but by saying that if he doesn't try it then there'll be nothing else) he starts to retch. Has anyone had experience of this? Is he doing it deliberately? Does he really find the food disgusting? In this case it was raspberries. Quite pleasant I think!

My ds twins aged 18 months go through phases like that when they think I am having too easy a time of it! The youngest gags on cheese, so I just don't even try but the eldest likes cheddar grated, not cut into pieces. Oh no, it has to be grated. Youngest is now deciding not to like banana, his all time favourite with a sprinkle of cinnamon. It now ends up on the floor!
Sorry Mummysurfer I am being of no help, just empathising

Like Paula71 can only empathise. DS (21mo) loved banana yesterday, today he hates it. Wouldn't eat carrots 6 months ago then couldn't get enough of them and now likes them but only if they are pureed. Today's speciality is eating chicken and rice but gagging on the chicken and spitting it out! Ho Hum! My philosophy is ignore it, clean it and try something else at next meal and then try offending food again next month. And of course .. the Mummy Mantra helps. It's only a phase; it's only a phase....

Look, make life easy for yourself. Don't try to make him eat anything he doesn't want. My ds is not very fussy, but when he is going thru a "phase" we give him what he chooses to eat. If he then doesn't eat his choice he gets nothing else, cos he is clearly not hungry. No child ever starved itself to death so your ds2 will eat sometimes.

We always have our meals with him, and make fuss about how nice his rejected food is while we eat it. 9 times out of 10 he will ask for some of mine, or ask for a plateful for himself.

Mummysurfer, don't let meals become a battlefield. Stay cool, If you don't let him wind you up, he will get bored with being quite so fussy and will settle down (takes a while - be patient).

Finally, remember that adults are allowed to have food preferences, there may be foods your ds genuinly doesn't like, that will make him retch.

Am having a nightmare at the mo my 8mnth old son is retching up everything he eats. He has just got over a virus where he was sicking up some of his milk but this is awful watching him forcing up his food.