Krystal has started introducing solid food to her 5-month-old son's diet but he keeps spitting it back up. She asks you if she should discontinue the solid food. Having learned about development, what would be an appropriate response?
a. Stop feeding him solid food—he obviously cannot handle it.
b. Wait until he gets his molars in at 12 months.
c. He must be allergic to the food; try something else.
d. He has a reflexive gag and he needs to learn to work around it. Keep trying, slowly.
D. Most five-month-olds still have a gag reflex and so the job of learning to eat is to work around it.
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