Sweetpea77 - As the others have said above, you are entitled to wean your child with whatever method you like. What you are not entitled to do is judge and verbally abuse/insult others who are also exercising their right to make informed responsible choices for their children. To call an entire group "irresponsible" and "repulsive" is just not cricket, and particularly not on an extremely friendly forum/blog where, had you sought our support our advice, we would gladly have offered it. I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but unfortunately these things happen. One of the first recommendations made by Aitch on this forum is to be in possession of an infant resuscitation certificate before embarking on BLW, and I would suggest that it is an equally valuable thing to have whatever means you choose to wean your child. Yes, many of "us people" have First Aid certificates, in fact I would hazard a guess that probably significantly more of us do than a similar pool of puree weaning parents, who tend to be less aware of the gagging issue in the first place despite the fact that their children are no less prone to it happening. Am I to assume from your post that you don't have one? Again, no one's fault (or, for that matter, business) but yours. As someone else pointed out above, you will presumably be feeding your child unpureed food at some point in her life, unless you anticipate sending her to university on a diet of apple sauce and mashed potato? Accordingly, at some point your daughter will, presumably, eat an apple in its unadulterated form, and hopefully she will do so without incident, but no one can guarantee that for you, and it is not anyone else's fault that you had a bad experience, any more than it is yours. Rubyrose from the Forum