Can some long term damage happen to baby if he choked on water but coughed it out.

[sarahhoping]

I was giving my 7 month old baby water with a dropper . he was insistent on handling the little water bowl . so i carefully kept it near his lips. he gulped a little of it i think and it ended in his windpipe or something because he started coughing for a few seconds but then went normal again.
he's ok now, nothing happened to him fortunately, but i am wondering even if some residual water had went into his windpipe or lungs, how could it hurt him long term ??
or am I being paranoid about this

You're being paranoid, but in a nice way :)

As pp, paranoid but in a nice way.

Seven months though? What were you doing?

DS has been fiercely independent since we started weaning and chokes a bit sometimes. He's 9 months and still absolutely fine.

He's fine. Is there a reason you are feeding him with a dropper?

A sippy cup should be fine by that age.

BTW it did scared the hell out of all of us.

He’ll be fine; I thought you were going to say he’d gone in water somehow

@user1493413286 no our little one just wants to control objects . and he was trying to drink on his own.
it scared the creeps out of me when he started choking and coughing, but fortunately nothing happened to him .
cant thank coughing reflex enough

@RealityExistsInTheHumanMind we had bought a sippy cup for him but the hole in that sippy cup sometimes lead to continuous stream that my baby once choked on earlier
we were scared then too. this is second incident now
my husband is pissed off and red faced after this incident and doesn't want my baby's commands to be given priority from now on

OP, your child can be trusted to drink from a cup at this age. If it goes down the wrong way they'll just cough.

Your baby's commands? It's important that they learn to drink from a cup. That's not a demand, that's development.

You need a cup. Dd likes miracle training cup. Mam training cup we also had and was fine. If it was streaming it sounds like an older age one or faulty. Need to really shake a trainer cup to make it leak.

my husband is scared of sippy cups as our baby once coughed up water because too much trickled down. he thinks of anything else than a 1 ml dropper to be a dangerous thing for feeding baby
except spoon feeding of pureed foods

In the nicest possible way, your husband needs to get some help with his anxiety, before it limits your baby’s development. Could you speak with your health visitor and ask her to have a chat with him? And get him booked on to a baby first aid course if he’s not done one already. It is terrifying watching them gagging and spluttering but always remember that if they’re making a noise and going red it’s fine, if they’re silent and blue they need help. Babies have a really strong gag reflex to stop
them from choking on stuff.

OP you're both being too anxious. Babies cough when they're weaning. Your baby didn't choke (unless they made no noise, went silent, changed colour). They coughed, it's different and you have to let them learn to eat and drink

@sarahhoping are you ok?

I have chronic health anxiety around Dd. I have counselling weekly. Using a cup is normal for development. Wee coughs are normal.

Are you breast feeding?

I openly admit that I struggled with baby led weaning and certainly wasn't relaxed about it but I did a mix of spoon and finger food and a cup with water.

A first aid course helped a great deal.

A 1 ml dropper sounds extreme I'm afraid, even for someone as anxious as me.

My DD is 8.5 months and her current favourite thing is drinking bath water, to the point where she face plants the bath to gulp it and comes up red faced, coughing but very pleased with herself.

She also, refuses to use the sippy part of her sippy cup, so it needs to be an open cup to get her to drink water with her meals.

It's no different to when water goes down the wrong way when you have a drink as an adult.

Is your DH going to insist she drinks out of a bottle forever?

@welshweasel my husband is paranoid about things that cud potentially hurt our baby .
and then when he sees us doing things that endanger it, he goes on full angry about it. he's just verbal though

@icedaisy yes baby is ok, and I am too. he's busy playing and throwing tantrums as usual.

@herrcomesthenamechanger thanks that was assuring to know but i will be extra careful the next time

Thanks to all the moms once again who take the time to answer on my posts :)

Your baby will be fine OP.
I would advise talking to your health visitor about a good book to read on baby weaning, or maybe just do an Amazon search.
Your DH needs to understand a little more about child development so he worries less and can understand what is actually dangerous and what isn't.

I think my husbands blood pressure went up in the charts when he saw the baby cough on water

I think he was probably thirsty and the dropper wasn't cutting it for him.

How great that your baby is starting to recognise what he needs and knows how to get it! Focus on that rather than limiting him. The cough reflex is there for precisely that, so he can learn how far to tip the water etc without it harming him. The worst thing that's likely to happen is a wet t-shirt!

There’s a difference between coughing and choking and sounds like your husband could do with learning that.

Your husband sounds like a knob tbh, he’s getting angry with you because your baby coughed on water???

Has he always been like this?

My baby would hold and eat wedges of baked potato and bananas at that age as we did baby led weaning!

@TeddyIsaHe no as far as my husband is concerned when he gets scared it leads to him being angry. Lol.
otherwise he does love our son a lot. he's doing baby sitting atleast 2 hours daily now that he works from home due to covid.

@sarahhoping

my husband is scared of sippy cups as our baby once coughed up water because too much trickled down. he thinks of anything else than a 1 ml dropper to be a dangerous thing for feeding baby except spoon feeding of pureed foods

Your husband needs to speak to a health visitor or someone who runs baby led weaning classes, it is absolutely normal for a child to cough if a bit of water goes the wrong way, or gag on a lump of food then spit it out. You cannot feed a child water with a 1ml dropper or stick to purees forever.