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Gagging / Vomitting

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Blankiefan · 08/06/2014 21:16

7mo DD has been weaning well. Near the start, she gagged a couple of times (both times on banana - I think it got "stuck" on her gag reflex) and vomited a fair amount.

She's been fine since - we're up to 3 meals a day. A variety of home cooked purées and porridge / weetabix of varying thicknesses. Today we tried to add pasta (baby star pasta). It went ok for the first 7 or 8 spoonfuls but then she seemed to get some stuck / have problems with the pasta (or potentially the sticky cheesey sauce?) and she did a major vomit.

She's always fine after a vom (that's my girl) but I wonder if she's alone or if others have had this and If there's anything we can do to stop it happening?

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Chocolateteabag · 11/06/2014 21:09

Happened occasionally with ds1 (who is now 3.5) and fully expecting it with ds2
Sometimes they puke when they gag, sometimes after a coughing fit or tantrum, sometimes if they've eaten too much.

Can't really "stop" them, but just try to be a good brownie and "be prepared". Have the highchair on a mat or tiles, have a muslin to hand, have a "sick bucket" type thing to hand.
have a greedy Labrador ready for clean up duty

That said - could have also been the gloppy consistency of the sauce, maybe try thinning it down a bit more next time?

HugoTheHippo · 14/06/2014 22:09

I have this with DD. She's 10 months and has only just started chewing. Whenever I gave her anything lumpy or finger food she would majorly gag and then quite often upchucked. I cooled it for a while and stuck with purées and have only recently started testing her out on bits of toast, fruit, etc. I figure she'll get there eventually!

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