String Cheese Question

KarlsSweetie05

If you let your LO eat string cheese, how do you give it to him/her?

My hubby and I disagree and thought I'd get some opinions.

I have been giving the whole stick to each kid (we have twins) and let them gnaw on it.  They don't have any problems with choking. One has 2 teeth.  Other has 4 teeth.  Both bite off little pieces, chew, swallow.

Hubby says we should pull apart the string cheese into thinner strips and cut up and let them pick up with fingers.  Kids do not seem interested in these small thin pieces and leave them on the try.  Hubby is afraid of them choking using my method.

I know that there is not a "right or wrong" answer.  Just wondering what others do.

 

 

KERJF

I give DD the stick as is. She enjoys it for all of 5 minutes and then its a race to grab it before the dog does lol

Nanna

We have a good friend whose daughter choked on a piece of a (whole) string cheese (like, someone had to give her the heimlich). That little baby is the perfect circumference to get lodged in a windpipe. My kids get their cheese pulled into 2 or 3 long strips before I give it to them (even Kermie's). Beaker gets hers the way your DH advocates. I'm a bit of a freak about choking, though, so we still even cut hotdogs into fourths for the boys.

sarahbeth827

I haven't given LO string cheese yet, but I would pull it apart.

JenniCollins

Haven't given Chloe any yet (always forgetting to grab some) but I'll probably just give it to her.  If not I would only cut it in half longways.

GHBEA

We use rice cheese and only in the square, I don't think they come in a string cheese shape.  I'd cut it up though.

 

Kmhsswim

When I used to work in childcare and even at the public preschool I teach in now, it is part of the NAEYC policy for accreditation that parents had to send in things like string cheese, grapes and hot dogs cut in half because it is a choking hazard. 

 I've had that so drilled in to my head, that I naturally cut it in half.

RunningGal900

I'd cut in in half or quarters. Like pp said, it's the perfect shape to get stuck in a small windpipe. I would also cut hotdogs up, even for an older child. I know a 22-year-old who choked and died on a hotdog (he was alone, so apparently there was no one there to give him the heimlich).