What she did you stop chopping grapes for LO’s?

[Anney28]

As above ^^ DD is 4, soon to be 5. She loves grapes. I always half or quarter them if big.

She’s gone back to school and said she had grapes for snack and said the teacher didn’t chop them.

Is this too young? Or ami being over paranoid?

Been a nervous wreck since me son choked on food whilst I was driving (not grapes). Had to stop the car on the side of the road and perform the Heimlich manoeuvre!!

I asked the school to make sure grapes were cut up when DD started. I also told her not to eat grapes unless they were cut up. She's 7 now and we still cut them.

When did we have to start chopping grapes?
Youngest is 2, never chopped a grape, eldest is 14, defo never chopped a grape for him.
If feeding something like that I tend to make sure that I am lunching or snacking with them to supervise; if I can't supervise then she gets a banana.

Children can choke on grapes even when you’re sitting right next to them. And once a grape is in a windpipe they are almost impossible to get out.

Try it yourself - wet a grape and see how much friction there is. Once it’s in it’s not coming out. It’s absolutely not worth the risk at all.