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A gag reflex is really normal and if anything, would actually prevent a baby from choking because the food would come out before it even got very far down her throat! I would just keep trying and let her experiment with different tastes and textures. Is she making chewing motions with her jaws when she eats puffs/purees? That was the signal I looked for to start finger foods with LO.

Also how small are you making the pieces? We started with things the size of cheerios, so even if LO swallowed it he couldn't choke.

I'm not sure how old your baby is but I feel like DS had an issue in the beginning too. I wanted to try BLW and started around 6 mo. However, every time he would eat something, he would gag and then throw up. So we took a break. I would still give him little things like puffs and cheerios but really started back up again around 8 mo. She might just not be ready.

E has a really bad gag reflex (7.5 mo). I give her food, then she projectile vomits everything up. Even purees sometimes. I still offer BLW style whole foods because she seems to like the flavor, just not the texture....and I figure one day, she'll just 'get it' and she's doing some purees now without too much trouble. But, sometimes there is barf. Mine freaks out if we do puffs, so we skipped.

I just keep offering and I don't force feed her.

Just a thought but my nephew struggled with anything other than purées due to chronically inflamed and swollen tonsils. He suffered from ongoing ear infections and tonscilitis etc and had them removed at eighteen months and now eats everything in sight