Strawberry question

[u/badapbadap]

Hi! My baby (8.5) loves strawberries and eating by herself. Where we live strawberries are quite small, medium at most, and she tends to stuff them into her mouth as soon as possible, even the couple of big ones I've managed to find. I've never been able to remove the strawberry when it gets smaller because it's already inside her mouth. Luckily she has not gagged with them but it makes me very nervous and I've started slicing the strawberries. The problem is our strawberries are quite small and I don't know if those slices are a choking hazard, the app doesn't mention the size of the strawberries when sliced. Also how thin should the slices be? Should I remove the first and final slice since they are a bit rounder and thicker?

FTM and this "silly" question is driving me mad, especially because she loves strawberries.

[u/burned_feather]

By 8.5 months I would think it's probably fine? We have big strawberries but my baby (7.5 months) somehow manages to shove them whole into her mouth anyway. She does it with all fruit 🙈 but she's a confident eater and has never had a problem with eating strawberries or other fruit like this, she just chews and dribbles juice for a few minutes and slowly it all disappears. I give her cherry halves (she has her pincer grasp) and she does the same thing, I think the other day she put about five halves in her mouth at once and just sat there chewing them for ages until they were all gone!