Finger Food Question

[Anonymous]

I am SO scared that Dagney will choke on things, that whenever I introduce anything new I give it to her in such a miniscule size that it probably almost can’t be considered a finger foods. Once I’m comfortable that she’s comfy with the texture, I start to make them bigger, it’s worked for us so far, so why mess with a good thing?!

I’d like to start her on crackers or something like that, but I’m so scared of giving her a whole cracker, or even 1/2 or 1/4 of a cracker, how do you all do it? Am I just being overly cautious/neurotic? She’s only had a handful of instances where she’s gagged on anything, and that was when she was younger with fewer teeth. She seems to do really well now. She’s been eating elbow-size macaroni, little bits of chicken, green beans, potato bits, carrots. I cut up the Gerber peach slices b/c I think they’re way too big, those get cut into 3 or 4 pieces…

Any suggestions on anything else that may be safe, or to help get me over this fear? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

If she is chewing I think she would be fine. I just stick by the riule of keeping Alana in sight when she is eating (and making sure I keep up to date with the heimlich manourvre LOL). Perhaps give her the more “dissolvable” crackers….the ones Alana loves are kind of melt in your mouth texture versus hard cracker texture.

Nothing wrong with being overly cautious IMO….practice for later when boys appear on the scene!!!

[Anonymous]

Denise,
Gerber graduates has some little crackers that dissolve really easily. Bryce can even handle them and he’s horrible with gagging and new textures, etc. Maybe you could try something like that to start out and then move on to regular crackers.

[Anonymous]

I know how you feel Denise, but Ben puts a WHOLE Gerber wagon wheel in his mouth!!! Scares me to death, but he just lets it sit in there until it dissolves and he can chew it. He can’t figure out how to eat it any other way, and even if I break it up, he still puts a lot in his mouth at once. I figure the wagon wheel is too big in itself for him to swallow.

He hasn’t figured out the whole “take bites” idea yet, obviously. So, I’m thinking that those teething biscuits might work. (I think their called Zwiebac, or something like that) They are pretty big and you just gnaw on them, so that might help him (and Dagney too) get used to taking bites???

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone! I’ll have to try it. I bought those ritz-like crackers, can’t remember the name, they’re dairy & soy free, I may try that over the next few days, and then go from there! Of course, tonight Dagney did almost choke at dinner–she shoves as many green beans in her mouth at once as she can fit, and then she started to choke! I managed to stay calm & she was ok, but I really need to take the infant life saving/cpr course!!

[hellbennt]

not sure if these are good for mspi: baby goldfish- ari still at 13 months spits out regular goldfish and regular whole wheat bunnies bcse they’re too big…i also break up earth’s best crackers for him- they’re sesame street & I feel bad for poor elmo & big bird as I take their faces apart LOL!-

kashi brand crackers might be milk & soy free? I also break these up

[Anonymous]

Alex routinely shoves too much food in her mouth at one time, chokes, spits some out, swallows and then puts the food that she spit out back in her mouth. I tried giving her just a small amount at a time, but she eats so quickly that I have trouble keeping up. So, we just stay really close while she eats and try to keep her from shoving too much in at a time. We used to panic when she chokes, but it never bothers her. She acts like it’s totally normal.

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