gag me with a....PB&J?

This is rather gross....don't read if you have a weak stomach. Sorry....but this is what we're dealing with at the moment.

A couple of weeks ago we ate dinner at The Olive Garden. At the end of the meal they bring those Andes mints when they bring your check. I broke off a small piece of one and gave it to Rachel. She started chewing it up with a very strange look on her face (we've since come to realize that she doesn't like mint). Then she started gagging and proceeded to get sick all over the table, her high chair, and the floor. Thankfully I had an extra pair of pants in the diaper bag so I went to change her while my husband cleaned up the mess (What a guy!). She wasn't sick...just gagged, which then triggered her to throw up. She didn't fuss and was as happy as can be after it happened. Very strange.

So yesterday she was eating lunch--PB&J. She had only eaten a few bites. My mom, who is here visiting for a couple of days, and I were trying to encourage her to eat a couple more bites. She kept saying she was all done (this is a frequent struggle in our house). We bribed her with a piece of halloween candy if she ate the rest of the half she had in her hand. She willing ate the rest...all at once. Then she started gagging. And up it all came, all over her bib and tray of her booster seat. My mom got her out (she was crying by this point) and she then got sick again all over herself and my poor mom.

My mom thinks it's all related to her feeding problems she had early on (when she had to drink her bottles laying flat on the floor instead of in our arms because she started choking and gagging). Maybe she has a super sensitive gag reflex. I don't know. It doesn't seem to be anything particularly serious, but it is pretty gross!

Anyone know anything about this problem??