If your baby is choking and has not coughed up the food themself you may need to commence CPR.
To do CPR on a baby remember to use not quite as much force as you do with an adult. All new parents should read up on basic child first aid and should keep a book handy.
If your child is choking:

Give your baby a couple of medium hard pats on the back. See if you can easily disodge the food with your finger but do not try too much as you may …

Many babies will seem to to choke when first starting to eat solids. This is usually just a gag reflex at a new taste or, if some food has got stuck, they will often manage to dislodge it themself by gagging. In some cases you will need to help them out with a firm pat on the back or in rare cases CPR.
You can usually tell straight away if your baby is choking:
 

They will go quiet or make a strangled noise.
They will often have their mouth open and tongue out …

Baby Led Weaning is weaning baby onto solids by letting them lead the way on what they eat.
This approach moves away from using spoons and feeding baby progressively chunkier purees and instead is based upon using finger foods and letting baby feed themselves. This is often an approach which many parents fall into without knowing that they are actually using the Baby Led Weaning method.
Finger foods are best started at around seven to nine months. Around this time babies will have begun to learn how to swallow without gagging or …