Can some explain the Tongue thrust reflex to me please??

[LadyTophamHatt]

Or whatever its called....

Never heard of it until recently, is it something that made the big Ds's weaning so tricky?

It helps to prevent tiny babies from choking since it makes them automatically push foreign bodies such as spoons out of their mouths with their tongue.

They lose this reflex as they get older so it is easier I should imagine to feed a baby solids when they're not trying to push them back out at you (or not even really trying as such since it's reflexive).

Yes its a reflex to stop small babies from choking, which is why it is easier to wean babies over six months because by then this reflex has usually gone.

Aha..thanks.

Ds4 has medicine for a cough ATM and is doing the little baby bird open mouth thing when he sees the spoon. Its almost all going down too so maybe he's is going now.

Could be. Ds had to have a syringe at that age as there was no way I could have got a spoon in! Mind you, I think Calpol tastes rank so maybe he just agrees .

This reflex is usually lost around the time baby learns to sit. So it all comes together at once - sitting, eating, digesting. If your child could take a spoon at only a few months - that's more worrying than not being able to.