BLW - I love it and baby would love it to but gags and sicks on TINY bits- when will it stop?

[micromummy]

didn't have this problem with ds1...ds2 is 6.5months and very happy to gum on e.g ricecake and squidge it to death but if even the teenist (few millitres across) piece of food actually heads for his throat he gags HUGELY and sicks.
Does this go away by itself? I mean, should I hold the finger food for now and try again in a few weeks? or does he need to keep trying it to blunt his amazing gag powers?
He loves lump-free food (he's a spoon grabber, although I think that is because he's teething), so it is not strange taste that bothers him.

have a look here, you're not alone. from what i've read, it just gets better, but it's up to you and what you feel most comfortable with as to how you proceed from here...

thanks i had looked at your lovely blog before (at least partly to admire all the cute baby pictures). It wasn't the fact he was gagging in itself as I am happy that this doesn't really bother him but he pukes up large amounts of last thing eaten/drunk so can't really be doing with that...

i know, it sounds like a monumental pain in the arse... i'd give it a miss for a week, personally.

My LO suddenly got the hang of finger food at about 7.5mo (I started off trying BLW at 6mo but he gagged and vommed every single time, plus had issues with handling food due to eczema on his hands, so I switched to mush for a while). I would imagine that every baby becomes developmentally ready for finger food at a slightly different age so would maybe try again in a week or two?

Also he still finds rice cakes a bit tricksy (I think because it disintegrates into bits), have you tried toast?

I bow to Aitch's superior knowledge on BLW, mind...

thanks.
will continue our joint efforts at spooning in mush for now. The way he is attacking them it may well be that a piece of spoon will be his first solid food...teething is evil.
will try non-sloppy food again in a week or too, fully equipped with bib/waterproofs/umbrella etc to ward off the fountain.
think you are right about all babies different re:timings of things like this

makes sense to me, mm.