What age did you stop cutting cherry toms and grapes up for your children?

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I still do it for my dd's 3 & 5 am I being to cautious with dd1?

Joking why?
I am cautious I know but I heard a story about a four year old choking to death on a cherry tom whilst at nursery.
I keep putting them whole in her lunch box then I just have to go back and cut them in half

dd is 20 months and I don't chop them up!

Because of the recent threads on MN, for DD's school snack, I have started cutting grapes in half again. She's 4y5m. Had never thought about it before. I don't cut cherry tomatoes up though as they are normally not small enough to be eaten whole.

Dd is three and I only just stopped cutting them up. If they are really big grapes, I still do.

Can't help myself.

My DS is nearly 3 & I now cut large grapes in half as I have heard a number of stories about children choking on grapes. I also don't bother with cherry tomatoes unless really small.

I have never cut them up, tbh. Not even when they were little. But then DD2 has never knowingly eaten a grape or cherry tomato in her life (she is 5)

dd is 4 next month and I chop them up
I know someone who's son died from choking on a grape and he was 5.
My aunt also died choking on a nut, so I am particularly careful. But I was brought up with it

maybe im crazy but dd is now 12mths and she has loved grapes since about 5mths, finstly i chopped and even peeled the grapes as she would not swallow them with the skin on.
but i have been giving her them whole and skinned since about 7mths! she never has them without me there!

But i am now panicking that im a bad mum after reading what others have put!!

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also give whole grapes and cherry tomatoes my dd loves both and has been eating since about 9 months. had no idea could cause choking but dd likes to bite them first and suck out good bits and then spits out any bits that aren't acceptable. have noticed she's very good at keeping things in side of cheek until soggy enough to swallow

I insist dd bies grapes and toms in half when eating or even cuts them up herself (she likes doing that). Lazy? Moi?

I've never cut them up. It wasn't until I found MN that I read that you ought to - but as dd was 3.5 then and I'd never cut them up before, I didn't bother starting.

I still cut them up for ds1 who is 5.5 - mainly because I'm chopping them anyway for the younger two.

The other week my friend nearly lost her little boy who was choking on a 10p - he is big 5.5 year old. Luckily the paramedics arrived quickly.

I was getting complacent till then but now I'm on high alert again.

Ds has always been rather easily choked/gagged on things so I still do. He's 3.

I cut them up, ds is 2.4. There have been 2 instances of 3yos choking to death within a 5 mile radius of where I live. Only takes a minute.

I had stopped cutting grapes and cherry toms up for my child but after reading about 2 three year olds who had died after choking on a grape in one week, I have started cutting them up again. My children are 5 and 3. The baby (15months) won't eat them at the moment.

My dd is nearly 6 and I still cut them up.

I always cut cherry tomatoes up because that's what I always do in a salad anyway have recently gone back to cutting grapes up due to a thread on here about a 3 year old choking to death.

I'm glad I am not a neurotic mum who is over reacting and others still cut them up.

DS is 4 and I still cut both up!

For info: the recent grape scare story involved a boy of 2(?) who suffered brain damage as a result of choking on a whole grape. There are quite a few cases per year of children under 33 mths choking on grapes etc.

The consultant told the parents that grapes are particularly problematic because of shape & texture. Once in the airway they are very hard to cough up. The heimleich manoeuvre won't always clear them either.

I still halve grapes & cherry tomatoes for 2 & 3 yo but not for 4yo.

My DC are 4 and 7, I have never cut them up.

I think I stopped cutting grapes for DS (now 26 months) when he was 12 months, maybe sooner. Never cut up cherry toms as he has only just started eating them.