Anyone else got an epic gagger??

[ElphabaTheGreen]

7.5mo DS has been on solids for around six weeks now with no major let-up in the gagging. I wanted to do BLW but I was spending just as much time cleaning up vomit as I was clearing dropped food off the floor and I just couldn't bear it anymore so have reverted to a combination of finger foods and texturised food. He started as a spoon refuser but is (slightly) happier with them now and doesn't gag with purées or slightly textured foods - rice pudding is OK, for example - but he gags his way through most finger foods and still vomits if he tries to swallow something a bit too adventurous, bringing up everything he's struggled down his neck, and then some. He fed himself a good amount of cauliflower and broccoli cheese the other day, only for a floret to hook itself the wrong way around a tonsil and he threw it all back up again - I could have cried! He infinitely prefers feeding himself and I know he needs textures to desensitise his gag reflex so I don't feel I should be limiting him to a mush-only diet. He definitely doesn't have reflux - the vomiting is a heave (or several) in response to an overstimulated gag.

Is this level of gagging normal at this age? Does anyone else have a super-gagger and/or has anyone had one and when will it stop??

I'm with you. My DS gags when it's slightly more textured than normal or on mushed banana strangely. Think it must be it's texture. He's been on purees and mush for a couple of months now so I know I need to step it up but I could scream/cry when yet another whole bottle of milk and food reappear all over him, me, floor or chair every time I try. Not sure if I'm doing things right or not. He loves his food though so in that sense he's doing well.

Oh, dear Lucy. It looks like it's just us.

DS threw up spectacularly over both dogs the other day, as they spend mealtimes hovering expectantly around his highchair. I wiped them both off quickly (short-haired breeds, thankfully) then forgot it had happened. It wasn't until my mum complained a few days later about the dogs stinking of vomit that I remembered to wash them properly

Me three, my DD is also a gagger and major spoon refuser. It's a nightmare I'm lucky if I can get half a spoon in 50% of the time and when i give her finger foods (toast, banana etc) she just gums it and if she does manage to chomp a bit off promptly gags and throws up. She's now 13 months and she has got better but it's such a slow process.