For those concerned about choking and BLW

[CherryChoc]

I was just browsing on youtube and found a video of a baby gagging which shows how they can easily sort it out by themselves. Thought it might be useful if you are worried about it as it can be very nerve wracking to sit and watch calmly while your own baby gags for the first time!

Here is the video

I must have been lucky as DS never gagged once.

ds1 was blw'ed. one night i gave him a huge bit of chicken to gnaw on (abot 2-3 inches long and 1/2 inch wide), ate a few bites of my own food and turned to him to find him sitting there happily, no chicken in sight.

wow, thought i, that was good going, and gave him some more food.

half an hour later he proceeded to gag up the piece of chicken in it's entirety, unchewed in any way, and presented it to me happily

my DS2 was the worst gagger - and he was puree fed

same with my dd, purree fed and choked constantly... hence my about the 'dangers' of blw

Big difference between gagging and choking.

Often people use the terms interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

gagging is the thing where they retch and bring it back up

choking is when it lodges in the throat and they go all red faced and can't breathe until it dislodges.

dd choked on purrees... daft child

LOL PinkTulips that must have taken some doing! Bet it freaked you out though.

I know, it's just that sometimes people start BLW and see their DC gag and worry that they nearly choked or think that gagging could lead to choking and so stop. So I thought a video of a baby gagging and coping perfectly well with it might be reassuring.

at that point i'd endured months of reflux, colic and no sleep at all so think i was immune to her insanity difficult nature

I had a great demo of the difference - 7m DD gagging on toast, next moment my Mum chokes on a branflake . Full on choking with abdonminal thrusts needed. She's fine but scared us all silly - apart from DD who carried on calmly eating her toast.

Easy way to remember is that choking is when it goes down your windpipe, i.e. makes breathing difficult, gagging is just sending it back up the gullet. My LO was BLW with a bit of spoon-feeding for my sanity and I was lucky as he only gagged once that I can remember, and has never choked badly.