Baby vs Food

Re: Baby vs Food

• yellowdaisies84 member

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  My baby is also having a hard time with textures and solids. She actually freaks me out when I give her something chunkier she opens her mouth incredibly wide in a big "o" and makes a sound like she's trying to cough but can't. Basically she chokes on it at the back of her throat! After a few tries I feel tempted to stick with purees longer and do a slow roll-out of the chunkier textures. She's not used to it and I feel like she isn't totally ready? Freakiest was when I recently gave her a rice husk cracker/cookie for 6 month +. She bit off a piece of it and then did that "o-mouth" thing and honestly it was so freaky I was really quickly unbuckling and pulling her out of her high chair, luckily at that point she was okay but she had lots of tears and needed lots of snuggles.

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• RIngReady member

  January 2016

  I know it seems silly, but just keep exposing her to the 'chunky' foods. My daughter did the same thing at first, but every morning I plopped a bannana in front of her so she could hold and mouth it. She kind of sucked on it at first, but then I moved to whole wheat toast slices and scrambled eggs. She continues to spit new foods out the first few times she has it but with expereince and exposure she is getting the hang of it. 
    
  If baby is getting enough calories from food and milk/formula they really are fine, and exploring textures in avariety of ways is normal. 
  
  

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• morninglory530 member

  January 2016

  My little guy is 9 months and he's had some serious texture issues, too! He wouldn't eat willingly from a spoon from us until 7 months, and that relationship was short lived, lol. He would literally shudder when we put things like pea purree in his mouth and when he put things like pancakes in his own mouth. But...at eight months, we turned a sharp corner and he decided he wanted to eat food. We don't spoon feed him anymore and we offer pretty much whatever we're eating. Depending on the food density with things like chicken, we might cut it into tiny pieces. He likes gnawing on things like broccoli and goes to town on ritz crackers and cheese. He eats just about anything he can get into his mouth by himself now and we don't see much shuddering anymore.
  
  Our philosophy has been that we offer what we're eating and he decides what and how much to eat (basically once the food is in front of the child, the parents job is done). So I would recommend offering the food you're eating at mealtimes, but don't pressure baby to eat something they don't want to eat.
  
  If you feel like your little one needs more of a transition, you could use rice cereal or mashed potato flakes to thicken your purrees to prep for harder solids a little later.

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• Nickioch member

  January 2016

  Same here with any texture at all! Even mashed bananas, if he gets a tiny chunk that isn't purée texture he does the gagging throat cough thing and tonight did it like he was trying to throw up! I grabbed him out of the chair thinking he was choking or about to throw up it was a little scary, but he must've worked it out and was fine. My thought is to keep trying now and then until he's ready. Glad to hear it's pretty normal from what I'm seeing here!

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• cf101009 member

  January 2016

  I didn't see this and just posted something very similar. I'm glad to hear I'm not alone. It's conceding when it seems like my little guy is behind on the eating

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