I need some suggestions. F does okay with purées but he seriously freaks out when something solid is in his mouth. He will happily suck on noodles and broccoli and pancakes but if any bit ends up on his tongue approaching swallowing he starts this dramatic cry/gaping mouth/drool thing.
Is this something he will grow out of or will he be destined to eating soup for the rest of his life?
Soup for life!
No seriously he will eventually grow out of it. I would just try something everyday try and vary the texture from almost melty (mum mum's, yogurt melts, super super soft foods) to pretty firm (uncooked apple, pieces of meat) and eventually he will figure it out.
badw0lf try not to stress. Just keep offering. Can you offer foods dipped in a puree he loves, so he can lick off the puree? Pleasant food association maybe? DS doesn't understand dipping yet... But maybe F would catch on? It'll be hella messy I'd imagine.
badw0lf try not to stress. Just keep offering. Can you offer foods dipped in a puree he loves, so he can lick off the puree? Pleasant food association maybe? DS doesn't understand dipping yet... But maybe F would catch on? It'll be hella messy I'd imagine.
Yea I tried this. He went to town on the broccoli and then bit his finger and cried. I laughed. MOTY
Hahaha, poor little guy!
Like aggiebug said, he will probably grow out of it. Maybe it'll take him a while, or maybe he'll just one day decide that he likes it.
DS loves puffs, rice cakes, bread , and fries. He also stole a (soft) carrot stick from another baby at daycare, so he's ready to move on. I need MH to get over his choking fear otherwise DS will be 15 eating purees.
badw0lf, we are having the same issue here. I bought some of the stage 3 foods and whenever she gets a little chunk of solid she makes this ridiculous gagging face and sometimes projectile vomits. Lovely! I am not just giving her puffs in her highchair before her feeding so that way if she gags there isn't as much to come up.
Giving her just purees doesn't really bother me too much, BUT I just want her to know the joy of pancakes!! My bff's 7 month old eats pancakes like a champ. WTF I'm so jealous he gets to know that deliciousness and she doesn't!
badw0lf DS didn't like avocado til he got much better at chewing and moving things around his mouth. I think it was way too sticky. He started off enjoying steamed carrots and baked sweet potato fries. He doesn't like puffs (star shaped or tiny cheeto shaped) but we tried mum mums this week and those were a hit.
So I'm sure this is a dumb question but when you're giving things like pancakes and steamed carrots do you cut them up into little pieces that they pick up or into stick-like shapes that they hold and take bites of?
So I'm sure this is a dumb question but when you're giving things like pancakes and steamed carrots do you cut them up into little pieces that they pick up or into stick-like shapes that they hold and take bites of?
Veggies, avocado, banana, and meat in sticks, though DS is starting to do better with large cubes of food. For pancakes I'll either make them roughly the size of the palm of my hand and let him have the whole thing or just tear a full sized pancake into 2 or 3 pieces.
Sometimes particularly slippery fruits (watermelon & pear come to mind) I do larger pieces - long like a stick but thick like uhhhh a roll of quarters or something. So he can sink his fingers into it to get a handhold. I've done banana this way too, where I just make it shorter not skinnier.
DS is slowly learning how to manipulate food to get it the size & shape he wants it - so if I give him a long piece of avocado he may grab it in the middle and squeeze until part drops off, then readjust his grip on the remaining piece and eat it. He's had exclusively finger food for ~1.5 months now (wow didn't realize it'd been that long). Learning when to use both hands to steady a slippery or cumbersome piece of food was a game changer too.
Post by allonsy221b on Oct 10, 2015 22:56:33 GMT -5
Brandon was having a hard time with purees so I would give him small pieces of table food and he did awesome. He finally figured purees out so he's loving that. I had no idea he could have meat sticks and puffs yet, yay!!
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I've been giving DD some finger foods here and there. Banana, steamed carrot, steamed broccoli, baby mummums (the happy baby version has less sodium). The only one she's ever put in her mouth are the mum mums. She loves those. She does enjoy playing with the other foods though. Do I just keep in offering, and some day she'll put them in her mouth?
I've been giving DD some finger foods here and there. Banana, steamed carrot, steamed broccoli, baby mummums (the happy baby version has less sodium). The only one she's ever put in her mouth are the mum mums. She loves those. She does enjoy playing with the other foods though. Do I just keep in offering, and some day she'll put them in her mouth?
Keep offering she will figure it out. I also put some directly in her mouth and hold it there until she grabs it to help her figure it out. You can also mimic it for her. Making over exaggerated motions of you picking up food and putting it in your mouth. She will do it eventually.
Post by 2mrsks (mrs&mrsk) on Oct 12, 2015 15:04:25 GMT -5
DS projectile vomited my 2nd attempt at cooking food (apples pureed w/ cinnamon). he also had water. i think the cinnamon made him cough and that made him puke. UGH.
Post by toadandbuggie on Oct 12, 2015 20:12:04 GMT -5
I have the same issue with DS. He actually doesn't particularly like any of the purees I've given for the past couple months. He does the same gag reflex when any finger food gets on his tongue too. I cut up little bits of fruit and try to put it in his mouth for him to chew and he won't. He loves mum mums but mostly just to suck on.
I'm glad you posted this because I was getting worried too. All of his nutrition is coming from formula. He loves sucking on and playing with food but he doesn't like eating it so much.
How do you guys get over worrying about choking? I'm scared to give him much because of the fear of choking. Like, pancakes - what if he bites off too much?
DS projectile vomited my 2nd attempt at cooking food (apples pureed w/ cinnamon). he also had water. i think the cinnamon made him cough and that made him puke. UGH.
Maybe too much cinnamon? DS did something similar when DH went heavy on the cinnamon in DS's oatmeal.
DS projectile vomited my 2nd attempt at cooking food (apples pureed w/ cinnamon). he also had water. i think the cinnamon made him cough and that made him puke. UGH.
Maybe too much cinnamon? DS did something similar when DH went heavy on the cinnamon in DS's oatmeal.
i think so. also he is teething = drool= cough = vomit. fun times.
toadandbuggie the best way for me to handle fear of choking is to know what to do if it happens. That means an infant CPR class or at least some good videos. This one about infant choking is informative, though I learned to do chest compressions with two fingers like she shows in her infant CPR video, not the heel of the hand the way she shows in this video.
When I read Baby Led Weaning the book, it talked about how the gag point on a 6 month old is much further forward in the mouth than it is in an adult, so they'll gag before something is right in their airway. That was reassuring to me. Gagging is unpleasant to watch, especially if DS has to gag multiple times on a single bit of food, but I know it's helping him learn how to move food around his mouth as well as what's safe / unsafe (or at least pleasant / unpleasant).
DS has choked once. We're pretty sure he washed a bit of food out of his cheek and into his throat when he took a sip of water. It was pretty awful, but the whole scenario resolved in a few seconds. DH and I whipped him out of the high chair and tilted him forward a bit and he cleared it on his own.
With DS it's the little bites that cause him to gag way more than big ones. If he gets an entire mouthful of, say, pancake, he may gag a bit but he's just going to spit the whole thing out. The scariest thing I've given him were instant mashed potatoes. He just filled his mouth and chewing didn't help and he couldn't much spit them out. He didn't choke but we basically had to either sweep his mouth or wait for him to dribble enough out we felt comfortable offering water. I took those away real quick
toadandbuggie yep. Totally petrified of choking, but lilyelayne gave great advice for infant cpr, I brushed up on mine about a year before DD was born. As well I googled gagging vs choking and learned a lot that way. DD gags fairly often but I definitely would have panicked (more) if I didn't know the difference.
Also, I have started to realize she is much more capable of handling certain foods than I give her credit for and it has helped me to relax a bit.
Post by toadandbuggie on Oct 14, 2015 5:15:21 GMT -5
Thanks guys. I did brush up on cpr although I'm not certified. My friends baby choked and she panicked and froze - luckily a family member was there and helped the baby - but I'm more scared of that. Panicking. But, I think I'm going to give him more credit and try more things by himself.
I still give little bits of things: shredded cheese, peas & carrots, scrambled egg (doing this now), puffs. She loves peas. I think 'this one' is moving on from purees a lot sooner than DD1. Maybe it's just bc I'm more comfortable with it... but it's totally okay to move slowly. The idea of like a piece of steamed broccoli makes me very nervous and I'd never risk it. No need to push anything if they (or you) are not ready.
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