September 23, 2024

Breaking Off a Small Bite: Is This a Choking Risk?

19 minutes

#469: What if your baby bites off a small piece of food from the adult pinky sized shape of food you offer? Is this small bite a choking risk? In this episode we explore what to do when your baby bites off a piece of food and you are worried the baby is going to choke.

Listen to this episode to learn:

Why longer pieces of food are safer for early eaters to pick up

What happen when your baby bites off a small piece of the longer piece of food

What to do when you baby takes a small bite and how to lower choking risk

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/469

Links from this episode:

Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program

Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners

Other Episodes Related to this Topic

Episode 6 - Safe Food Sizes for Baby-Led Weaning

Episode 194 - BLW Food Size: Why Do Early Eaters Need Big Pieces of Food? with @msdawnslp Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP

Episode 254 - How Babies Learn to Chew and Swallow with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP @msdawnslp

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