I was really dreading having to go down not only the puree path, but to basically give her liquid food I was wondering how long it would take to get anywhere with that, but I hope the little man that is in my head doesn't get to me ('don't cause complete solid rejection by going down the BLS path ).
I will go back to just trying every few days and see how she goes, she already suffers enough from the reflux, forcing the food is just making it worse.
RB ~ A friend had a great spoon for self feeding she did BLS with her first, I am going to ask where she got it from, but it is a bit early for DD2 to give it a shot as she needs to build her fine motor skills a bit more first
BR ~ How frusting for you a bit of damned if you do and damned if you don't! Thankyou for asking she is a lot brighter today so hopefully it was just a once off (that we don't want to repeat again!)
HotI ~ Thanks for your experience, it is good to know that 8 months or even a bit longer isn't out of the ordinary. I will just have to continue to battle certain family members who have been on my back about solids since DD2 was 3 1/2 months I keep saying the same thing over and over again, it may sink in with them one day
hey Beema, I'm a bit late on your thread, but can't resist posting ...
My kids have combined your issues between them. DS had a very sensitive gag reflex & projectile vomits on solids. He ended up refusing to even TOUCH all finger foods. We did end up having to go back to the purees for him (at 10 months!), and LOTS of very messy sloppy food play. Yoghurt was a bit winner helping us get through, and then very very easy dissolvable crackers - things like Ritz crackers & Mum Mums. Now this time around DD does have reflux (but fairly well controlled) and seems to have quite an aversion to being medicated, so BLS is working much better for her. She'll put spoons in her mouth herself quite happily (we just have to load them ) and is very happy to try all finger foods. We've had some gags and quite big spews but she's not distressed. The difference was that DS started getting quite distressed with the vomits and definitely had a negative association, whereas DD vomits then picks up the food to try again!
So I wonder if you'll be best off trying a combo and really monitoring that any vomits aren't causing distress? I think she'll lead you and show what she's enjoying most. All the best with it, I know how frustrating it is when you can see a great way to do it, but it's not working as easily as you might have hoped
Bahhh I wrote a huge post and then clicked the wrong bit so have to write it again probably shorter!
Thanks Belfie for posting I was interested to see how things have gone for you and each time has been different
We've had a few issues over the past few days and I am trying to ascertain the cause, DD2 got croup 4 weeks ago and has had a persistent cough and rattle since, but clear lungs and no infection so assumed it is just the "never ending" viral cough, that has continues since we started "trying solids" still don't know if this si the cause.
Today a couple of friends held DD2 and could feel her chest rattle and she was very audible in her breathing, it has grown worse over the past few days, after she sucked/gummed on a milk arrowroot she had about 1/2 of one. She ended up with a stridor and Sunday morning was showing signs of respiratory distress (neck tug), I was able to take her straight to our GP rooms, her's wasn't on but one of the others whom we haven't seen before saw her and put her on steroids for a couple of days, she has no symptoms or signs of infection, lungs are clear etc, so and the steroids really haven't made much of a difference at all so we don't think that they are the actually solving the problem. and after only 3 hours sleep Friday and Saturday night and only a bit more last night, the steroids usually work a lot better than that (we have delt with them a lot with DD1).
Today I tried a small amount of pureed pear just to see what she did, and she opened her mouth and didn't have the tongue thrust anymore, in the end she had about 1 teaspoon in total so not a lot and it was partially to appease DH But after it her cough and rattle was exacerbated, she became very distressed and didn't settle until after having a boob, I couldn't put her down as it made the coughing worse and she would just get more distressed.
So I am starting to think that something else is going on, one of the mums today mentioned her DS sounded like she did and had the same rattle and it was diagnosed as "Laryngomalacia (literally, "soft larynx") is a very common condition of infancy, in which the soft, immature cartilage of the upper larynx collapses inward during inhalation, causing airway obstruction", it was also something that her Paed mentioned right when her reflux was first diagnosed. But we also want to make sure that there isn't an allergy of sorts, because of the dramatic change after the milk arrowroot biscuit.
And based on how bad things have been after the last few attempts of solids no matter what form, on top of with every other attempt resulting in throwing up, we feel that pushing it at the moment is going to create an aversion because she is getting so distressed and Belfie your experience really worries me that we could end up in a similar position.
So I am taking her back to her GP tomorrow to talk to him and see if we got back to the Paed first or to a Gastro or ENT to get things checked out before we let things get out of hand, then we can hopefully work out if we can just keep going with the BLS and do it slowly or go in another direction.
I was wondering how long it would take to get anywhere with that, but I hope the little man that is in my head doesn't get to me ('don't cause complete solid rejection by going down the BLS path
).
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