shauni27, probably not very common, but I did purees for quite a long time. A just never put anything in her mouth, including food. She also had a very strong gag reflex. I think we did tastes of solid food, but purees to cover the main calories until she was about a year old. Then it was like a light flipped on and she started feeding herself and stopped gagging so much. It was never a taste thing with her, mainly a texture thing.
Same for my son. He finally stopped gagging on solid food at 10 months.