1 year old still on purée

[Pixieanna]

Hi, so my 1 year old is still struggling with textured food, we have tried absolutely everything we have had SLT out who said some babys have food sensitivity to texture! He loves carrot puffs (the melting ones)
He loves flavourful things - pineapple, tikka masala sauce, spicy tomato sauce etc

when we do try more textured food he gags then starts choking which is horrendous and then ultimately vomits and begins to cry (traumatic for everyone involved)

we started weaning at 4 months due to his reflux being extremely bad and we just started with baby rice, and puréed pouches which he never had an issue with!
He wants to try everything we have and we let him but he just ends up gagging then chocking then being sick! He’s desperate to have it but he just can’t deal with it in his mouth!

he is hitting all his milestones! We are waiting to hear back from the hospital as he has enlarged tonsils (Dr said they are basically touching) but we asked them if this is why he struggles with food and they said no! But surely if his tonsils are enlarged with a very small gap between them the food would struggle to go down right?

we’re just at a loss tbh
any advice is recommended

my 17 month is still on puree and struggles with texture.

But he is getting better with more teeth and time.

We’ve had quite a similar issue, but not quite as bad. My 16 mo vomits on certain textures, can tolerate others fine. He has grade 4 enlarged tonsils and we’ve been told by the ENT consultant that this is likely the cause of the overly sensitive gag reflex and vomiting, so interesting that you have been told it’s not! He is having them removed in 2 weeks so I am hopeful it changes things for us and will let you know if it does.

@Cdoc so glad we aren’t the only ones, feel awful when I see other kids his age having full meals and I’m blending all his stuff down! We’ve been told we have to wait to be seen by ENT but the waiting list is over a year long, but everytime he chokes badly during the day I’m on the phone to my GP to get him checked ( they really don’t mind and are just happy to see a cute smiling baby😂) he’s always okay and it doesn’t affect his airways! (So glad I know how to handle a choking situation in young children otherwise I’d be screwed)

I was really confused when he said that to tbh & then said he’d probably need oxygen throughout the night as his tonsils will be touching more ( he stops breathing for around 20 seconds then takes a big deep breath and is fine) I did explain to my partner if you have tonsillitis or anything that involves them they get bigger which makes it harder to swallow so we got very confused 😂

we’ve not had much luck with all of this tbh when we took him up to the DRs when he first stopped breathing we got told “it’s just his voice box developing” & “well he’s breathing fine just now” we even have a video of him doing it and they said “he’s not Turing purple so he’s breathing” I remember sitting there going wtf, kept happening requested a Dr I knew would listen to us and she referred us to the hospital and she even listened to his chest and he pants like a dog which we had been saying for months but “baby's do that” We showed her the video and she was like nope getting that referral in now! When we got seen by the Dr at the hospital and we told him that he stops breathing and what the GO said to us he went “ahh which GP was this? Because I’m going to speak to my boss about this because he should of sent you to the hospital or made a referral” we are so thankful the two Drs actually listened to us and we showed them the readings from our owlet sock and his oxygen levels when he slept where all over the place they’d go from 98% to 89 or 91 then back up and back down which is very concerning!

I hope your little one copes well with the surgery and he gets lots of ice cream after ! X