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Why does she puke whenever I try giving her veg?

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hobie1 · 04/10/2007 18:06

Help! DD started on solids a couple of weeks ago, and now wolfs down mashed banana for breakfast without a problem. Am beginning to try some food in the middle of the day, but so far with little success. Baby rice usually stays down, but understandably she doesn't like it much. However, whenever I offer mashed potato/sweet potato/carrot etc. she vomits after the first mouthful. She appears to take it in OK, & with some enthusiasm (after the comedy 'what the hell's this?' gurning) but then after 30 seconds or so she's sick. This is proper sick, and includes the last milk meal and that grim vomit smell, etc. After this happened a couple of times a week ago I stopped and gave up on the middle day feed until today when its happened again.

DD is 6m.o., was BF exclusively until 3.5m when I went back to work, then formula and BF until 2wks ago when my milk ran out. She's never had any probs with feeding. She's small, but not excessively so, although at the last weighing she'd dropped off the 9th centile which she'd followed from birth. She's getting pretty mobile and beginning to wake in the night (having been a great sleeper), so I feel she's beginning to genuinely need more than just milk feeds.

All advice gratefully received!

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ThePhantomToiletFlusher · 04/10/2007 18:15

Do you reckon it might be because its a bit lumpy? Mine couldn't tolerate any sort of lumps in their food for what seemed like ages and used to throw up everywhere like this if there was the timest lumps in their food.

You could try watering the veg down with milk and blending to really smooth paste.

Someone with a bit more knowledge may come along in a bit with some more ideas.......

Seona1973 · 04/10/2007 19:30

its either that or you go the BLW route and offer the veg in chunks/sticks so she can feed herself. Sometimes it is the 'surprise' lumps in a smooth puree that causes the puking

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