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12mo doesn't tolerate lumpy food

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MadameCheese · 22/04/2009 14:10

I'm trying to add more texture to his food but he gags and often vomits back the entire meal This lunchtime it was a sandwich. Can you help me I'm really exasperated! I don't want to have to puree everything but this seems to be the only solution.

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MadameCheese · 22/04/2009 14:49

Help!

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MadameCheese · 22/04/2009 15:57

bump, anyone?

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Alieight · 22/04/2009 16:58

Not sure quite what to suggest really, as DS is only 9mo and a good eater.

In the early days we gave him lots of roast veggies - carrots, parsnips and butternut squash were favourites. They're nice and squishy, but easy to hold. No real lumps as such, but he did need to be able to chew.

Have you tried toast rather than bread for sandwiches? It doesn't go as claggy when they eat it and is a little easier to cope with.

Hope that helps, if not there's a bump anyway, hoping someone more experienced will come along.

Alieight · 22/04/2009 17:00

Or maybe mashed stuff on toast? That way he can suck/lick the mash off the toast but get used to the idea of having solid foof in his mouth as well?

Alieight · 22/04/2009 17:00

foof = food

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MadameCheese · 23/04/2009 14:29

Thanks Alieight. Tried to do BLW but just played with food and didn't put it in his mouth funnily, whereas everything else is just fair game! I have given toast but again that just gets mushed in the hands, other finger foods he rejects on the grounds that they are repellent to hold!

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MadameCheese · 23/04/2009 17:13

anyone else please?

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OatcakeCravings · 25/04/2009 18:00

Hi there,

I am in the same boat. My DS is nearly 11 months and won't eat lumps either - he'll get to about the last mouthful of a lumpy meal and then the whole lot just comes back up. So I puree everything and I know that he's getting all the nutrients etc. that he needs. Before I give him his breakfast and lunch though I give him finger foods to eat (play with!) He doesn't get much down but it is getting him used to solid food.

If I was you I would put out fruit/veg/toast or whatever on his high chair and just let him play with it - he'll get used to it eventually and as I'm fond of saying to my HV etc - I've never seen a 15 year old that can't eat a bag of crisps so he'll get there eventually!

RubyBlueberry · 28/04/2009 11:42

He'll eat soon enough, I wouldn't worry about him still eating purees. Can you maybe make them thicker with baby rice?

My DD (now 3) still had the odd puree til last year and if I was desperate to get her to eat something, (anything!) she would eat the carrot and sweetcorn plum baby food - still loves stealing DS's now!

TabithaTwitchet · 28/04/2009 11:45

This happened to me too. DD was about 14 months when one day she just didn't gag. I had been giving puree and finger foods, and trying a more textured thing a couple of times a week. Up to that point she would gag on the first mouthful, then refuse to open her mouth (so I would have to rush off and put it all in the blender), then suddenly she could do it

TabithaTwitchet · 28/04/2009 11:48

BTW also can completely sympathise with the "repellant to hold" finger food thing, DD is still the same, although she is slowly improving. I try and do lots of messy play with her, play dough, shaving foam etc to get her used to textures. She used to scream her head off, but she is getting there now. (she is 16 m btw)

Divvy · 28/04/2009 11:48

My dd was like this until around 18 months! She has grown out of it now, but it was difficult at the time, as you keep trying them on lumps and they are just sick everywhere.

Gledhill · 04/05/2009 18:50

My ds (11 months) is the same. Especially hates finger foods and throws them away. I'm just trying to introduce more texture to the mush, but it is exasperating. My HV referred us to a speech therapist - they know all about muscles around the mouth / throat, but I'm not convinced they will be able to help, it will prob just take time!

OatcakeCravings · 20/05/2009 13:12

MadameCheese if you're still about - just to say that I think that I've finally turned the corner with my son - he's 2 weeks a way from his first birthday and I've managed to get him to eat a little 'proper' food.

Instead putting down finger foods on his high chair or handing them to him I've been putting little bits of food in his mouth - bits of toast, potato, pasta etc and he's been eating them fine. You might not be happy with how I did this though! Basically I popped a little bit of cake in his mouth when we were at a birthday party and he thought that all his Xmases had come at once! So over the next few days I continued giving him sweet things (I know bad!) and now he has progressed to toast, pitta and houmous, chicken breast etc.

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