My nine month old son is having problems swallowing regular food we started with just crackers he will bite a piece off when he goes to swallow it he gages and throws up any thing he recently ate. Mash potatoes even gave him a problem. Should I keep trying and he'll do more when he's a little older? We never had a problem with our older son who is now 5. He had reflux but he has been off medicine for a month and a half now, could this be part of the problem?
We didn't start giving our son regular food until he was closer to 12 months. Is he taking baby food okay? You might want to try to give him some of the older baby food that has "chunks" in it (usually labeled for 9 months and older). When our son mastered the chunky baby food is when we started giving him "table" food. Does he have a lot of teeth? Maybe he's just not ready to chew it down yet. Hope this helps!
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I have been through this with both my girls but my first one was the worse! She is 12 now and my other daughter is 10! I also have a son who is 5! She never did this at all till she started table foods and she would eat just fine but then when she was done it would all come up and just keep coming! We went through this for over a year at every meal too! We took her for all kinds of tests and they never could find anything! To this day I still don't understand it. And I don't know how she still gained the weight she was suppose to gain but she did!
S. Bailey CLD
Aurora
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My son was like this. stage 2 great....some stage 3 too chunky. didnt do mashed banana or avacado either. stayed at stage 2 and sopme stage 3 like pears, apples (the thinner ones)At 1 year, we went to chunks of soft foods, like the gerber graduates carrots, pears and apples which we cut in half and he handled great! then we just cut up banana and that worked good! I talked with a developmental therapist and she said a lot of kids fail at stage 3 chunky foods. its just a thing. more than likely, he will be fine. if it keeps up, i would follow up, but give him some more time and i think it will work out well. good luck!
It may be that he's too young, but I would keep an eye on it. My son had feeding issues even with baby food and gagging on it. We called early intervention, and he qualified for speech therapy services (for feeding). 3 therapists later, we discovered that besides low tone in his cheeks, he didn't have the strength and dexterity in his tongue to help move the food around in his mouth (anything that became stuck on the roof of his mouth produced major vomiting...) Oral-motor work with a speech therapist improved his problem immensely, although b/c it took so long for us to figure out what the problem was, he had emotional issues tied to food that he had to work through.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, wait, but not too long, and if you're concerned, call early intervention. My son's problem could have been solved in 6 mo, but it ended up being 4 years b/c he developed fears about food.
Good luck!
Maybe is isn't ready for table food yet. Crackers tend to be a little hard to swallow and mashed potatoes are really thick. Wait another month and try again.
My son who is now 13 months had the same problem at his age. When we went in for his 9 month checkup the doctor told us we had to take him to a speech therapist because of his gag reflex and to get sallowing help. We ending up going to 2 different therapists and the end conclusion was just that he needed more time. They were right, we didn't push things on him and stayed with stage 2 baby foods. Within a few weeks he got over it. The therapist told us some kids just have there gag a little longer than others. They did have us give him a kids toothbrush to stimulate his mouth and tongue, gave him things like cherrios, cheese puffs(becuase they melt easy and they can play with them), and they had us give our son his spoon to play a explore with in his mouth.
Hope this helps! Good Luck.
