Choking - What to feed?

doctor is closed so will have to wait til monday. his reflux isnt too bad i dont think. he was only on meds for the pain cos it was burning his throat but he has never been a power chucker and doesnt cause him any pain so took him off the ranitadine at about 5 months with no problems. he is on thickened formula and always has been, he still spills alot after every feed even if it is hours after. he never coughs the food up on his own, we dont normally have him so bad we have to tip him upside down and whack it out but we often have to give him a few pretty hard smacks on the back to get it back up. he still spills water if you try give it to him. ummm, cant think of what else. what could possibly be wrong that would casue that though. its really annoying. i never wanted to have him eating different food from us but its just too horrible trying to give him anything else cos you are on the edge of your seat the whole time. ive put him on jar food for a few days to see what happens and im only using stage 2 cos he has never choked on that, its the only way to keep me from being really freaked out. im still giving him weetbix and yogurt/banana and other adult food. just not dinner cos i want him eating veggies like we do

Chloe just choked and gagged on every single thing that wasn't smoothly pureed until about ten months. It wasn't until about a year that she was eating toast and lumpy things like all the other kids. But she only turned blue once, normally she would bring up the lump of food (and everything else too) - this was just about every meal! She had a mega gag reflex.

But if he is turning blue/purple and you are that worried about him, then I would definitely be talking to the Dr. It doesn't sound like normal gagging on lumps to me, so there may be something going on, best to get it checked so you know!

my girl was born within days of your lad Monikah and was a reflux bubba too

Until Xmas day actually if you gave her anything other than super smooth puree there would be hideous gagging where her eyes rolled back in her head and all the rest of the drama

Oddly on Xmas day it was like she just snapped out of it - and since she has been going from strength to strength with her eating!

I have no idea what solved it other than time so i hope your boy is the same and matures into being able to eat lumps.

Sorry i wasnt much help but wanted to let you know that there are others thinking of you and hoping for a similar outcome!

no, some of the girls in the may 09 thread said they still have their babies on puree food so i decided id give it a bit of time. i gave him toast again yesterday (first try again on non-puree food) and he gagged 3 times but i only had to hit him on the back once to get it back out which is good. 2nite i gave him mince out of our lasagna and some pumkin which i mashed but left quite lumpy and no probs. he is far from the cooked carrot sticks/sandwhichs/sultanas and stuff plunket want him on but its an improvement so ill see how we go.