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Originally Posted by AzNightmare
We're starting to feed solids to my 6 month old and yesterday, it was all going well until he suddenly had the whole thing in his mouth and then his face turned red and he was choking.
Luckily he was able to vomit it out , but in those few seconds, my wife and I were like uhhh shit shit shit!
We fed him some baby food that's supposed to dissolve slowly. Jeeze that was scary. Is this supposed to be a normal part of transitioning to solids?
Should we also have milk on standby so he can wash it down?
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Had kind of a similar experience when we started the transition to solid food.
It's normal for babies to gag a lot when first learning how to swallow solids. It's hard to watch! Although sounds like your experience might have been a bit extreme if his face turned red for a few seconds.
In our case, our son would gag and gag while trying to swallow (which is normal) but then he'd vomit food up from his stomach, which they said wasn't normal. So we saw a pediatrician who couldn't find anything obvious that was wrong and said to just monitor it over time and keep checking back.
So we did that for about 3 months and slowly but surely he grew out of it and now he eats like a monster truck.
But I won't lie, it was a tough 3 months watching him gag and choke every meal up. And messy. My wife was the hero helping him get through it. She did a lot of reading/research and worked hard at it until he figured it out eventually.
Babies are pretty residual. If they are coughing or choking, more often than not they'll cough it out unless you gave them something that was too large for their airway and not dissolvable.
One thing my wife said is if there's something inside the baby's mouth, never stick your fingers in and try and pull it out. More likely you'll push it down their throat into their airway. It's more dangerous to do that as opposed to letting him work through it himself.
https://www.news24.com/life/wellness...oking-20221003