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Choking on bread/toast

My baby is 9 months and has been doing really well with BLW since 6 months. But on 3 separate occasions now she has choked on bread - not just coughing and gagging, full on silent and struggling where I gave back blows to get it out. I’m now terrified of giving her any bread or similar foods now. I’ve tried it toasted and untoasted, use solid starts to make sure they’re appropriately sized, I’ve given it both dry and with toppings but it’s always the same. The other times where she hasn’t choked she coughs and gags every time she has bread, which I know can be normal but I don’t think it is in this situation. Please help 😭😭😭

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I'm no expert but I would stop giving any sort of bread until she has more teeth?

My suggestion would be to keep working on chewing skills with lower risk resistive sticks then trying bread again. You can also give very stale crusts of crusty bread like sourdough, French bread, etc. Bread is a higher risk food for choking! When you reintroduce softer bread, make sure you give very small pieces and only give one at a time (smaller than a drinking straw!!)

Bread has a tendency of sticking together while soggy so i totally get that! My little one is also 9 months and toast is always getting stuck at the roof of his mouth! I get nervous too!!

Thank you everyone, no more bread for a while then! I always see baby’s the same age/younger having sandwich’s/toast etc I thought I was doing something wrong

Something weird happens at 9 months. From 6-9 months you can give stick shaped bread. At 9 months, you have to start doing bite sized pieces. We have an issue with bread too. We joke that he turns it back to dough because he gets it all soggy and gooey

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