How to move onto lumps without sick

[mrsflux]

My ds is almost 7 months and a good eater. However he can nit do lumps at all ! Everything and I mean EVERYTHING come back out exorcist style
food has to be really smooth or else! Even some soggy rice cake got him.
How and when do we do lumps? I can't bear him puking his little guts up!

Have you tried giving him some very soft finger food (carrots or broccoli cooked)? He might just need to chew it slowly himself.

At 7 mths though I wouldn't worry too much. Just go back to smooth and wait a bit. He might just not be ready.

Also might be worth talking to your HV?

my HV is totally pants so she's no good unfortunately!

i'll re try the soft finger food once my washing basket is less full (lots of sicky messes lately)

At 7mths I don't think it matters that he's not wanting lumps, just mash it up a bit more and introduce slowly.

Good luck.

We went straight to the Baby Led Weaning route at 6 months and it was a fantastic success. I'd suggest scrapping the mush altogether- smooth or lumpy- and just give your little one soft finger food to chew himself. At 8 month dd can pretty much manage whatever we are eating just placed directly on her high chair tray to help herself to.

Giving pureed food with lumps in is very hard for some babies to manage, because they can't cope with the different eating style needed to cope with the different textures. They slurp the puree then gag on the lumps.

Also gagging is very different to choking - gagging happens occasionally and can be a normal part of learning to eat; babies learn how to move the food around the mouth and throat and gagging can be part of that process. Choking is less common. Does he vomit his milk up? If not then the sicking up food may well be a very strong gag.

Try offering more finger foods, that he can control himself such as toast fingers, veg and fruit sticks, chunks of cheese, and see if by controlling the intake himself he gags less.

singed - when he pukes it is EVERYTHING that's in his tummy at the time so yes milk included. he hasn't thrown up a lot of milk since he was really tiny though. he pulls a proper retching face just before it happens but i haven't worked out how to stop it one he gets to this point.
even with finger food a lump can make him puke. (classic example was a piece of rice cake at a cafe in shopping centre - green courgette puree puke everywhere!)

i do wonder if the fact he had a tongue tie may affect how he deals with lumps. we had it cut at 5 weeks but he did have a long time as a bump with a tongue that wouldn't move the right way....

OP really interested to hear this. How is your ds coping now? We are going through the exact same thing atm. I was wondering whether I was rushing him (ds is almost 7 months and has been eating puree happily for 4 weeks).

Ds was diagnosed with a tongue tie but a 'minor' one which shouldn't affect speech therefore the consultant decided it didn't need snipping.