BLW? Help!!

Question

So I decided to go for it this morning and let Grant feed himself eggs I made. I made sure to cut it in finger strips and they were cooked through. Problem is my kid tried to stick the entire strip in his mouth and spent the whole time gagging with his eyes watering. I know that’s normal but omg I can’t with this. I’ve let him have bits of food I’ve had just breaking small pieces off for him (I know he can just as easily choke). I stopped after 10 minutes because I thought I was gonna have a heart attack. For those of you doing BLW, how do you get past this? Do your LOs try to stick the entire food in their mouth? I thought eggs would be a good first food but apparently not lol 
He did enjoy them because as soon as I took them away and we went to pear purée he got pissed 🤦🏼‍♀️

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It definitely isn't easy! Especially when I see the green bean go in the mouth and only half come out. I know eventually he will gag on it and spit it out (or surprise me and swallow it!). 
Basically he's "mapping" his mouth. He's moving the food to all the different corners with his tongue and figuring out what he can do with it there or where it makes him gag. Every time he gags it's a learning experience. 
But yeah I've also asked my husband to stay in the room just in case he chokes (he hasn't). It does get easier!

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Yeah at first he shoved it all in his mouth and then gagged it all back out. But now that we’ve been doing it for a week or so he gets the hang of it and gums smaller pieces off of the strips that he can actually eat. A lot of it ends up on the floor though

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I know it’s scary, but it does get easier! With my first, he started to learn how to move the food around in his mouth until it was small enough to swallow. It is definitely scary when they gag, but it’s all part of the learning process. Someone once told me that BLW teaches babies to chew their food whereas serving purées teaches them to swallow. For me, the idea of starting off teaching my baby to swallow everything was scarier than the thought of teaching him to chew. Not sure this mindset will help you, but I thought I’d share. ❤️

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I cook scrambled eggs for my girl just big enough for her to pick them up, more goes on the floor than her mouth though lol. I do toast finger length and she does well with that, apparently they only put in as much as they think they can handle. Its still so scary though lol. This is the size of eggs we do. Hope this helps!!

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I am the same way! He loves it and is really good at getting the food to his mouth...but I am a nervous wreck. He ends up shoving his fist in his mouth sometimes and I’m so scared he is going to let go of it and suck it down. He loves purées too but I really want to do BLW because he wants food so bad. I just don’t know if I can do it 😂

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Does you babe have teeth? I’ve been wanting so badly to do tiny, tiny pieces of eggs and some mashed avocado, but my daughter doesn’t have teeth yet so I’m scared.

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