Just to agree with everyone who's posted before me and add: If you were being as responsible as you would like other moms to be, you might not have given a 6-mo old, presumably in the beginning of the solid-eating adventure, pieces of apple unless they were soft enough to be smooshed on the roof of your mouth with your tongue. Like probably most of the other BLW moms who are reading this site and who are applying their perhaps starving intellects to ceaselessly reading up on these issues, I have in fact taken a CPR course. And in that course I was taught that all babies gag as they are learning to eat (yes, even and maybe especially on mush as its pushed to the back of the mouth without baby's control!). And that we shouldn't interfere with that process unless baby is truly choking. Being responsible is educating ourselves as fully as possible. Any method of eating is dangerous if you don't know the facts.