LO is 7 months and has been eating purées like a champ for the past two months. I'm interested in trying some finger foods/self feeding with some cooked veggies but I'm kinda paranoid about choking. Everyone says to cut the pieces small but just how small are we talking? I feel like anything is choke-able. How small do you chop your finger foods?
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When I first started giving real solids, I actually gave her big pieces of food (like, my finger-sized) so that she could grab hold of it and gnaw on it until she really understood what the food was for. Now that she feeds herself, I give her Cheerio-sized pieces of food, sometimes bigger, depending on if it breaks down easily.
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Lo didn't have teeth so we gave her teeny teeny tiny. I was paranoid!
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Foods he can bite easily we give big pieces (toast with spread cut into 4 strips, for example).
Foods he cannot bite easily (for example, some meats) we give him bits no bigger than a chickpea. -
I usually give pea-sized pieces. But it depends on the food. I will give huge chunks of tofu because it dissolves pretty quickly in her mouth, and i will give her big strips of pear when it is super ripe. Everything else is small but big enough for her to pick up.
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I think i would concentrate on the foods being really soft rather than the size.
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Thanks guys. I gave her a big piece of apple today to see what she'd do. At first she seemed to not like getting her hand dirty but the n gnawed on it a bit. Tomorrow I think I'll try some banana or really soft carrot pieces.
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