I'm sorry everyone, but I am calling B.S. on this. I am so very supportive of babies calling the shots when it comes to food, and we are excited at how wonderful it's been to put food in front of our 6 mo old and have her learn new tastes and textures herself with her own hands. I'm also happy not to puree it all, and use food that we ourselves are eating, but I will tell you that after today I am no longer giving our baby ANYTHING that isnt' at least mushed up. The piece of apple that I fished out of her throat today was very close to killing her. Have any of you people even taken a CPR course? I'm sorry, but you are completely irresponsible and to laugh about how you "worry" that you're not concerned enough about real choking is repulsive to me? This is not responsible parenting.