Anyone able to share any tips??

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My son is 14months old now & I can't figure out how to search this to even find an answer so I was hoping some of you ladies could help. My son eats finger foods, but I have to make everything into bite sized pieces. For example, I can't just give him a whole animal cracker or piece of bread because he will shove the entire thing in his mouth & I'm so terrified that he's going to get whatever it is stuck in his throat.. Is anyone else dealing with this or know how to teach him to take bites? He doesn't really "bite" pieces off. He chews even some crunchy stuff, but won't "bite." Ugh! Maybe it's just a phase?

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I still have to cut up most things in peices for my 14 month old. He can eat certain things while, but like you it freaks me out he is gojng to choke. He's been eating solid foods since he was about 9 months, but i still cut it up lol. I think it's something they catch onto as they get older.

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My 15 month daughter will take bites of large things, like an oat bar, but generally shoves most food in her mouth haha if I give her bite sized pieces of bread she'll pick them all up and shove them haha give him some time. He'll figure it out 👌🏻

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He will mimick anything that you do. Show him how to bite something and then give him the opportunity to do the same thing. It will take time- I still have to cut up some things for my daughter who is the same age as your son. He will get the hang of it soon ☺

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I taught my son by feeding it to him first, and putting my finger in the way to where he can't put the whole thing in his mouth at once. Now he takes bites. (:

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Those baby mum mums things that are like made from rice or something, they're really soft and break easily and I gave her those cause she can bite of pieces and that taught her to bite pieces off of things

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My little girl does the same thing.

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It's the age. We are teaching her how to bite, but sometimes she'll shove an entire thing in her mouth. It's how they learn though! My daughter has already overstuffed and had the "uh oh" look and then taken some out of her mouth. They aren't old enough to turn your back while they eat yet, but they'll get better little by little!

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We give our son pieces of things most of the time when he is eating. When we are sitting at the table together we may give him a bigger piece of bread or a cracker but we watch him like a hawk. He is usually pretty good about biting off a smaller piece but he forgets when the price gets a little smaller and shoves the whole thing in his mouth. We tell him it is too big and sometimes he spits it out and other times we have to take it out for him.

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Still working on this too! I let him feed me a whole graham cracker where he held it and I took tiny bites showing him my teeth the whole time. Or I hold bread to his mouth and rip it away after he bites down to help show him how it's done. But yeah, I have to keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't put it all in his mouth at once.

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I cut up most of my son's food.  He does take bites of things (i.e.: cookies, crackers), but has a tendency to choke because he shoves things in his mouth, sonif infeed him meat or pasta...I will cut it into small pieces.

Anyone able to share any tips??

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