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7 month old gagging on food, dont know what to do?

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bethelsie · 20/12/2007 14:19

started weaning my son at 5 and half months. he completely refused to eat my home cooked food, persevered for a while to no avail. I decided to try jar food and he really liked them. he now has turned seven months again tried my food again just gaggs and spits it out. So decided to try 7 month old jars, this went ok gagging on it but swallowed. half an hr later he sicked the whole lot up, tried again at tea time. this time he gagged and just spat the whole lot out. i have now gone back to 4month jars as i just dont know what to do, any advice would be gratefully received

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Jojay · 20/12/2007 14:22

Will he eat soft finger food like banana??

Might be worth a try

mum2jakeyroo · 20/12/2007 14:24

my son was on a combination of purees and blw from 5 months. tbh i didn't put him on lumpy food/7month old food till he was about 10 months. he was having finger food but just didn't like lumps in food.

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bethelsie · 20/12/2007 14:25

no he just gags and spits it out.

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mumbear · 20/12/2007 14:26

I have the exact opposite problem, my DD gags and throws up jarred food and will only eat my food. I read a while ago that jars at stage 1 are completely smooth and stage 2 suddenly have lumps, when you do your own food you can put the lumps in graduly. Can you mash the 7 month stuff up to a puree and then each time leave it a little chunkier?

christmosschops30 · 20/12/2007 14:28

bethelsie my ds had exactly the same problem. I fed him jars for ease really but when it came to going from purees to the 7mnth ones he would gag and spit it out.

He didnt manage lumps until he was nearly 1. And even now at 3 I still have to mince some things up like sunday dinners or he wont eat it (he doesnt seem to like meat or veg whole). He will eat toast and chips and stuff like that whole though.

HTH

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bethelsie · 20/12/2007 14:29

I have been trying that. i made him a lovely home made soup the other day. he started eating it, and i thought great ive found something, after 4 spoons he went back to gagging.

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karen999 · 20/12/2007 14:33

Why don't you try giving him some finger food to see how he gets on? he may like the freedom of feeding himself? Have you tried BLW?

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bethelsie · 20/12/2007 14:33

im glad someone else on here is havin same problem as i thought it was just him. my daughter was competely text book weaning and i did exactly the same for him as i did with her at the beginning. i just cant understand why hes doing it

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bethelsie · 20/12/2007 14:34

whats BLW? sorry.

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karen999 · 20/12/2007 14:39

Baby Led Weaning - there are loads of posts on here about it. I have done this with dd2 and she eats everything. She went off purees/mush at around 7 months and I switched to BLW - fingers of toast, bread, pasta, fruit, french toast etc.....just let her feed herself. She is ten months now and basically eats what we do. She usually has a roast dinner on a Sunday with us. I just put the food on her tray and let her feed herself. It can be messy but is much better (IMO) as she really seems to have fun with it. She is also brilliant at trying new things. Her favourite at the moment are red peppers and cucumber! Think it must be because she is teeting.

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bethelsie · 20/12/2007 14:49

karen999 sorry if this sounds stupid. i hve a real fear of chocking. How do babies not choke on finger foods, he has 2 teeth coming through. Will he try to swallow them whole or will he chew. how big or small do you cut the food. sorry to go off topic

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bethelsie · 20/12/2007 14:50

sorry choking

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karen999 · 20/12/2007 14:55

Hi - fingers of toast are great to start with. Gagging and looking as if they are about to choke to death are quite common - very scary I know but babies are good at being able to bring food back up.

Zealot · 20/12/2007 14:58

it's not off-topic, bethelsie, it's very healthy for a mother to be scared of her child choking but it is good to keep the actual risk in perspective. have you done an infant resus course at all? they do them for free at the mat hospitals as part of the ante-natal courses, so you can ring them and go along too. i found that helped me A Lot. also, i wrote this blog thing here www.babyledweaning.com, you could have a look at it. LOTS of pix of little babies chomping away happily.

Tommy · 20/12/2007 14:59

they might gag a bit and cough. Usually, if something is stuck then they will cough it back up.
My DS is 10 months as well and I have done BLW since 6 months and he hasn't choked yet. Also - I know if he doesn't eat it, then he's not hungry and I don't worry about it.

(he is my 3rd though so I am more relaxed about everything with him generally though!)

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bethelsie · 20/12/2007 15:01

thanks i will look into that, i just get so anxious, started happening about 4 years ago with my first, to the point where i couldnt watch my daughter eat incase i gave her a complex.

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Zealot · 20/12/2007 15:04

oh dear, that does sound like A THing. you maybe need some help with that... do you think infant resus would be a good place to start? and you know that in England and Wales in 2003 the last time the figs were compiled (off the top of my head) there were only two fatal choking incidents with children under four? one under one, i think. and we don't know what he choked on, could've been the wheel of a toy car for all we know.

mum2oliver · 23/12/2007 13:21

Bethelsie,Who made the soup?
Could I have the recipe please??

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