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Posted: 02/09/06 - 01:00
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neils
Joined: 10 Apr 2005

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Hello. I'm 25 year old female and I consider my self to be a very capable woman. But there is one job in which I'm not so perfect and that’s because I had no previous experience- begin a mother.
I have a son which is only five months old and I'm learning almost every day something about nursing a child. I'm getting used on sleepless nights and everything that goes with it but I'm having big problems with feeding my own child. It seams that everything I give to him he, gagging, troughs out.
Can someone tell me is this normal and is there anything I could do to prevent this gagging from happening.


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Posted: 03/08/06 - 17:37
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First, I want to tell you that I totally understand you because I have had almost the same problems with my little daughter.
You should know that it is completely normal and that all kids are born with a gag reflex to help prevent them from choking.
While you try to feed him, you probably push spoon with food too deep in child’s throat because tongue automatically thrusts forward to get rid of the object. Good thing about all this is that this part of this reflex last only till sixth month. After six months- it disappear.
In the future- put a small amount of food on the spoon and place a on the front of his tongue.
That’s how you will avoid all possible reflexes!


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