Hi,
My daughter Ria who is now 22 mths old eats only food which is pureed from the mixie. Its not that I never tried giving her whole solid food. She just didn't accept it. I'm being trying to give her food which is not pureed since she was 7 mths old. She use to gag and vomit it out. She'll vomit even everything that she has eaten 3-4 hrs earlier. She does that at this age too. Though she'll eat very small pieces of biscuits or 5-6 grains of rice, but not her complete meal. Plus nowadays she's started to skip her meals and will refuse to eat anything. Will go hungry for hours. What do I do? Can anyone help me? 3rose replied. my son is 19 month old ,he eats wells but ofcourse in mashed or porridge stuff,
recently he has started eating bananas, and pancakes.
when ever i try to give him the normal stuff he vomits.
he enjoys eating by himself but then the quantity is too less .
any suggestion! Pradeep Ghorpade replied. Dear Sonia,

We had a similar problem earlier. We have managed to get over it. What we did was gave him both pereed food and regular food. Initially what we did was mashed the regular food a little with the finger so he got used to chewing the food and over days reduced the mashing. As he got used to chewing the food, we reduced the amount of pureed food and increased his solid food. Now he is 23 months and for the last 6 months is eating solid food. You could try this, it may work. Do let me know if u succeed. Jasmine replied. Dear Sonia -

My son used to gag when I used to give him solid food as opposed to pureed food and he would vomit sometimes as well. You have to keep trying and she will get used to it. Cut the food into small pieces and let her pick up the food and feed herself. Children like to feed themselves. Let her see you eat the food as well and feed you, it will be a nice game for her as well.

You have to be determined and she will eat it, stop giving her the pureed food. As for her refusal on eating anything, some children get to an age where they really dont want to eat anymore for many reasons:
1) age
2) teething
3) not feeling well
4) not hungry
5) too excited or active

Good luck to you.