Baby and Lumpy foods?!?!

teabreak36

Hi there, Not sure if this is the right place to post but...

Our son has just turned a year old and we are still having problems getting him to eat lumpy foods. We waited until he was just over 6 months until we started to wean him, everything was going well, until he was about 7-8 months old. He had been eating rusks himself with no problems when one day he choked on it, since then he will not eat anything lumpy.

Anything past puree he will gag on even once he gagged until he made himself sick. He last few days I have been half pureeing and half mashing his food he is so so with this. I just wondered if any one else has had this problem and what they did about it. We never had this problem with our two girls so not sure really how to go about it.

Thanks in advance

DaisyFlower

Hi, my little boy gagged at lumpy foods so I stuck to pureed food for longer than usual - cant remember the exact age. Have you tried offering lots of finger foods to get him trying different textures. Toast and breadsticks went down a treat and eventually he ate the more lumpy foods. It was trial and error though but lots of different finger foods did work for us.

teabreak36

Hi Daisyflower, we have just started giving him big wotzit type finger foods that you can get from tescos he seems to be getting on ok with them. Tomorrow though we may well try him on some toast, seems about the right time. Thanks for your reply

carla40

hi, as daisyflower says, try toast or a biscuit, wotsits melt to nothing so i don't think they would work very good, you could also let him taste anything that you are eating, chips maybe good as they are soft but don't melt, but just let him try what you are eating, let him feed himself with it as well, just keep an eye on him, and don't worry, he will eventually start to eat lumps, hope this helps and good luck

mrsbez_2

Hi, my little boy is was one on friday and although not quite the same, he refuses 1

mrsbez_2

Sorry about that, my little boy decided to hit the return key!!!

Anyway, my little one was 1 on friday. Although not quite the same, he refuses to be spoon fed anything other than yoghurt and fruit puree. I think he just prefers to feed himself and that way he can cope with chewing and he can control how much and when he eats. rather than us just shovelling it in - if you see what i mean!! He just uses his fingers, and manages quite well.

I tend to give him little sandwiches at lunchtime, with those organix type crisps. For dinner he either has pasta, or vegetables which he feeds himself. If i really want to fill him up i will still try and give him mashed potato and veg all chopped up.

All i can say is you have to leave them to it, make sure he has a little drink and let him feed himself. It's very messy!!

Also try strawberries, chopped up to small pea sizes, small bits of toast, little lumps of cheese, etc

Hope this helps. My little girl was different aswell and would quite happily eat those baby jars or any spoon fed food, so maybe it is a boy thing!! I don't bother with jars for my little boy as he just hates them.

mummysaver80_2

My little girl has also just turned one year old, and she was gagging on anything lumpy from a spoon - all the literature you get says they should be just about eating what you're eating, just chopped up - yeah right!! She manages some finger foods OK - I started by putting a few cooked peas on her highchair tray before her meal, and let her pick - I think only a couple went in! She also liked Organix carrot sticks for 6 mths olds (they do a 12 mth version too) - look like big wotzits, and the pretty much dissolve in their mouth. Organix are a good range, I think, because there's only natural, organic ingredients in there - no added sugar or junk. Their rusks are softer than Farleys as they are sweetened with fruit juice - he might like them, but be warned that they are very messy! Raisins are her favourite by far. I give her soldiers of wholemeal bread with peanut butter on, but its a bit hit and miss as to whether anything goes in! I'm going to try mixing in a little cous cous to puree this week - never bought it before! Also, Heinz make baby pasta - Tesco don't sell it at my store, but my mum found it at Morrisons - its tiny, tiny little stars which you can cook a teaspoon or so of and add to puree (they also do microwaveable pouches of sauce to go with them). I'm going to give that a go with Ragu for Kids pouches which they do sell at my local store - no nasty ingredients and 2 servings of veg "hidden" in puree form. I give her Ready Brek for breakfast - 4 fl oz of milk and 3 heaped dessertspoons of Ready Brek (or Tesco's equivilent as I do!), pop in the microwave for 90 seconds, then stir in 1/3 fruit pot (about 30g).

Also depends on how many teeth he has - mine has 6 now.

I would say don't force it, but do try to keep offering something every day - one day he will get the hang of it! Don't stress about it!

anonymousie

Have you googled Baby Led Weaning ? (BLW)

BLW is basically the baby DIY strategy to feeding- it should get over most babies that have lumpy puree problems- actually, if you do it from the start you wouldn't use purees at all.

THe theory is that the "old fashioned" method starting with, effectively thickened milk (runny baby rice etc) teaches babies to drink solids off aspoon and that they get very confused when they have to chew- especially if the "drink and chew" foods are mixed ie a lumpy puree or teeny pasta in runny sauce etc

Seems to make sense to me and friends have used it with great sucess (my kids are bigger and were never a problem to feed at all!).

BLW would suggest you try foods of a "gummable" texture- teeth are not really relevent (babies get the front "cutting" teeth long before the one that chew food anyway). So big broccoli "trees" (cooked just as you do for adults) cooked carrot sticks etc. Bread/ toast fingers too (I would avoid peanut butter as early nut exposure may be related to increased nut allergy). Bananas strawbs etc would be great too- offer whole or chunky- not small bits as apparently gumming them up gives the baby control over chew/swallow and they are less likely just to inhale them.

Messy but fun and it works!! Just chuck them some of what you are having onto the high chair tray and let them get going!

Carry on spooning yogs etc and feeding milk as needed. Milk is stillthe main calorie source for a weaning baby remember.

morganb

The only thing i would say about BLW, which I think is a great idea in theory, is that it gave DS2 really bad constipation and made it very difficult for him to go to the loo, I think the runnier consistency of pureed fruit, for example, which is what I had to revert to, to solve the constipation problem, wouldn't have brought this on. I'm not sayign don't try BLW, I'm just raising an issue we experienced.

sooty&sweep

Hi

My little one likes chunks of banana and grapes (cut in half) full size pieces pasta, cooked carrot, brocoli.

She managed all of these without teeth but she was a late teether and didn't get her first until she was 13 months old.
To be honest she didn't like pureed baby food and started refusing it at about nine months she prefered to try the things we were eating, obviously within reason.

My son, who is now seven was different and stayed on baby food for much longer.

The thing I'd say about the mother and baby books where they tell you what your baby should be doing at whatever age is they're great for general guidance but remember every child is different and they haven't read the book so they'll do what they feel ready to do.