Blw- sizes to avoid. Please help a stressed out mum

[MrsWeasely]

Just started blw with my 6mo. She’s doing great, me not so much! Despite 5 years of yearly infant first aid training I’m a nervous wreck that she will choke. She’s gagged a few times and brought the food out and I know they’re meant to.
My main issue is with the size of the food. I’m fine with toast or sweet potato finger sizes. But what about fruit like cherries or hard veggies like peppers or cucumber? What size would I cut these?

What is the size to avoid- what is deemed too small or too big and a choking risk size?

Thanks, from a paranoid ftm!

I would avoid cherries and grapes. Peppers and the like I just cut up into finger lengths and often gave them with houmous or other food to dip (building up to use a spoon) and had the same myself.

Lots of pics of appropriate sizes for different foods.

Read from page 24: www.firststepsnutrition.org/s/Eating_well_the_first_year_June_20_for_web.pdf

solidstarts.com/

Search for the food and it will tell you how to cut/serve to reduce the choking hazard by age

@Pacidove

solidstarts.com/

Search for the food and it will tell you how to cut/serve to reduce the choking hazard by age

This this this. Solid starts is the most incredible resource for exactly this purpose.

Thanks :)