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Hm fairly early on. But that doesn't mean that if I give her a big piece of something she doesn't try to shove it in her mouth! lol I think that's more a personality thing tbh. My older one never shoved foods whole but the younger one will. So usually with denser hard to chew foods I will cut up. Softer foods I let go.

It's been gradual for us. Mummums were also an exception for us (mostly bc they were too hard to really shove in her mouth so she had to bite). It's hard to say exactly but I feel like she was definitely not taking bites of things well at 11 months. She is 16mo now and I can hand her a half a grilled cheese sandwich. I think she started taking bites of things maybe shortly after 12 months (this is when she started doing a lot better with food generally). But then our issue was she was like distracted about it so if I handed her a larger piece of food she'd take one bite then throw the rest lol. It has probably only been the last month that I could give her larger things and trust her to hold onto them and take bites.

Also in terms of chewing better/not gagging, that was an issue for us for a looooong time but her getting molars in the last month has been HUGE. Which I guess makes sense. Seriously when she got those first molars it was like she could suddenly eat (almost) like a kid rather than a baby.