We just started over here so I hardly feel right about sharing a tip, but I wanted to repeat the important fact... THEY GAG... a lot.... so calm down about it already. And Eli spit things out for more than 1.5 months. If he didn't gag on it (rare), he ruminated on it before spewing it all over the place. Eventually they get it and it will all work itself out and at nearly 8 months Eli at least tries to eat anything set in front of him and a lot more of it goes in that it used to (a lot of it is also dropped on the floor), but he almost never gags anymore.