Another toddler dies from choking on a grape :(

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See here, lovely little girl, it is so sad

story here

Just been reading this. Very sad

Poor family.

so so

unbearable!

So, why am I the only one of my friends who cuts grapes in half?

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I was starting to think I was OTT for cutting grapes in half now ds is 24mo, but obv I'm not!

Very sad. We had a woman from the Red Cross come and do a talk on resuscication (sp? ) mouth to mouth, cardio massage etc. at dd1's nursery. Very useful thing to know... Don't forget to cut your sausage and carrot slices in half too...

How totally tragic.

I had a terrifying incident with dd, 3 months, she somehow grappled a piece of lettuce from my plate into her mouth without me seeing it and she went purple, choking, vomiting. My friend held her down, I wrenched open hour mouth and pulled it out with tweezers.

So so so scary.

so paranoid about choking, so sad about that beautiful little girl.

That poor family, my thoughts are with them

So, why am I the only one of my friends who cuts grapes in half? !!! SAME WITH ME

Whilst BIL and SIL think its funny that DN stuffs his mouth with them

My DD choked loads of times on tortellini pasta. I used to cut it in half but if I missed one she would choke on it.

Just read story so sad. My mum always warns me about giving my DS fruit like apple due to choking because of stories like this in the past. DS is nearly 15 months and I do not allow nursery to give him apple due to these worries will they think I am over reacting if I say no to grapes as well!

so so sad and such a beautiful little girl.

pcm grapes are worse I think due to there shape and the penatrablity (is that a word?) of the skin

Desperately sad.

PCM -- nursery ought to be cutting grapes into halves or quarters anyway. Checking that they do definitely isn't overreacting (while if they do cut them up then it would be overreacting to say no to cut-up grapes).

[it occurs to lemon that, actually, she hasn't checked that DS's nursery cuts up grapes but has just assumed they do because they are generally sensible]

lemonaid- do you let your ds have apple at nursery

Poor baby, how sad.

I stopped doing it for dd, now 3. But I think after readng this, I will go back to doing it.

The grapes here are huge too....don't know why I stopped.

Will be showing this to my MIL who thinks I am overreacting by cutting up grapes.

TBH cutting up grapes is something I didn't do for my DSs at 2 but if I ever have another child I will.

How awful. This is local to me and is the second case that I know of in two years in the Preston area.

Yes, because I don't think he's any more likely to choke on apple than any other food item, and the staff at nursery are first aid qualified. If I'm going to let him eat at all then I don't personally have a problem with letting him eat apple. Whole grapes however are evil and often can't be removed even by experienced first aiders, because of their shape and slight squishiness and the texture of the skin. In fact if you wanted to design something expressly designed to choke a toddler, you'd come up with a grape.

I think this is tragic, poor child and poor family having to go through something that seems so easily avoided.

If a lesson is learnt form this then it might not make it so pointless, maybe if health visitors and midwives were to give parents (antenatal and postnatal) basic first aid as a must, including choking and other more common incidents, burns, asthma attacks, and other such instances where a quick reaction (quicker than an ambulance) would save a life possibly. I dont know if this is done already, I certainly didnt recieve any first aid information, but you are taught how to bathe your child, and change a nappy etc, it probably wouldnt take much more to add on some first aid skills.

I cut ds up for school and he's 5 1/2! I do seem to buy particularly large grapes though. His friend choked/inhaled last year on a cherry tomato, so be careful of those as well.

luckily ds' friend was ok btw