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[Music throughout video]

Voice

Safety's important when your baby's eating. Make sure your baby's well-secured in a high chair, or on your lap.

[Sounds of high chair straps being buckled]

[Baby sounds]

Voice

An adult needs to stay close and watch to deal with any problems like choking or a reaction to food.

[Muffled background conversation]

Voice

Never leave your baby alone with food.

Mum

He doesn't have time for games when it comes to eating. He just likes the spoon constantly going in.

[Background laughter]

Mum 2

Um but I think that will come later.

Voice

Find out about foods that are more likely to cause choking. And don't offer small hard foods, such as whole nuts and large seeds.

Key messages in other languages

He mea nui te haumaru i te wฤ e kai ana tล pฤ“pi.

Me mฤtua whakarite kei te mau tika te pฤ“pi ki tฤ“tahi tลซru teitei, ki ล papa rฤnei.

Me noho tata mai tฤ“tahi pakeke ka mฤtaki kei rฤoa, kei tauhohe rฤnei ki ngฤ kai.  Kaua rawa e waiho tล pฤ“pi kia kai ko ia anake.

Kimihia ngฤ mลhiohio mล ngฤ kai e nui ake te tลซpono ki te rฤoa.  Kaua e whฤngai ki ngฤ kai mฤrล iti, pฤ“nei i ngฤ nati me ngฤ kฤkano nui.

Uhoaki ke Leveki tumau e muke ke ua fai mena ka tupu he tau magaaho kai.

Pipi ke mau e muke ke he hana nofoa kai tokoluga po ke hapai po ke fakanofo mo koe.

Kua lata ke nofo mau e tagata motua ke leveki neke hakea po ke fai lekua ka tupu ha ko e tau mena kai.  Ua toka e muke ke kai mena tokotaha.

Hลซhลซ ke iloa e tau mena kai ka mukamuka ke hakea ai e muke.  Ua age e tau mena kai maล ikiiki, tuga e tau fua nati po ke tau sega akau.  

O le saogalemu e tฤua tele a o ai lau pepe.

Fai ia mautinoa o lo o saogalemu lau pepe i se nofoa ai mo pepe (high chair), po o le siโ€˜i foโ€˜i ia oe.

E manaโ€˜omia le i ai o se tagata matua na te vaโ€˜aia ma ia latalata i ai ina ia mafai ona ia foโ€˜ia ni faโ€˜afitauli e pei o le laoa po o faโ€˜afitauli e mafua mai meaโ€˜ai e le fetaui ma le tamaititi.  โ€˜Aua lava ne i tuโ€˜ulafoaina lau pepe na o ia ma lana meaโ€˜ai.

Suโ€˜esuโ€˜e atili i meaโ€˜ai e ono tupu ai le laoa.  โ€˜Aua ne i aveina i ai ni meaโ€˜ai laiti malo, e pei o pinati ma i si fatu lapopoโ€˜a.

Ko te haogฤlemu e tฤua i te taimi e kai ai tau pepe.

Fakamautinoa ko tau pepe e mau lelei i he nofoa maualuga pe ko luga o nฤ vae o koe.

E tatau lava ke i ei he tino matua e nofo tafapili ki ei ke taukikila ma fofล ni fakafฤซtฤuli e tลซlaki mai e vฤ“ ko te laoa pe ko te ฤfฤina i nฤ meakai.  Nahe tukua tau pepe tautahi ma ni meakai.

Hฤkilikili fakamatalaga ki nฤ meakai e ลno mฤfua ai te laoa.  Nahe fokia ni meakai mฤkeke taigogole, e vฤ“ ko nฤ fatu kฤtoa (whole nuts) ma nฤ fatu fuaefa (large seeds).

โ€˜Oku mahuโ€˜inga โ€˜aupito โ€˜a e malu mo haoยด โ€˜i he taimi โ€˜oku maโ€˜u meโ€˜atokoni ai โ€˜a hoโ€˜o pฤ“peeยด.

Fakapapauโ€˜i โ€˜oku fakamaโ€˜u lelei โ€˜a hoโ€˜o pฤ“peeยด โ€˜i ha sea kai maโ€˜aยด e pฤ“peeยด (high chair), pe โ€˜i ho fungaยด.

โ€˜Oku fiemaโ€˜u ke nofo ofi atu ha tokotaha lahi ke siofi mo tokangaโ€˜i ha ngaahi palopalema hangฤ“ ko ha loโ€˜oa pe ko ha kau kovi ki ai โ€˜a ha meโ€˜akai.  โ€˜Oua naโ€˜a tuku tokotaha โ€˜a hoโ€˜o pฤ“peeยด mo ha meโ€˜akai.

Fekumi ke ke โ€˜ilo ki he meโ€˜akai โ€˜e ngalingali ke hoko ai ha loโ€˜oaยด.  โ€˜Oua naโ€˜a โ€˜oatu ki ai ha meโ€˜akai fefeka fuoiiki, โ€˜o hangฤ“ ko ha faโ€˜ahinga nati pea mo ha tengaโ€˜iโ€˜akau.  

E mea puapinga maata kia noo taau pepe ma te meitaki iaia e kaikai ra.

E akapapu koe e, kua piri meitaki taau pepe i runga i te nooโ€˜anga teitei, me kore ra, i runga i toou uโ€˜a.

Ka anoanoโ€˜ia tetai tangata kia noo vaitata ma te akara marie ma te rave i tei tau me tupu ake tetai au manamanata, mei tera ra e, me raoaโ€˜ia aia, me kore ra, me tupu te kino kiaia no tana i kai.  Auraka rava e akaruke i taau pepe koia anake ua ma tana kai.

E kimi koe kia kite koe i te au kai te ka raoaโ€˜ia te pepe.  Auraka e oronga i te au tuanga kai rikiriki matutu, mei te au ua nati (nuts) e te au ua rakau mamaata.

ๅฉดๅ„ฟ่ฟ›้ฃŸๆ—ถ็š„ๅฎ‰ๅ…จๅพˆ้‡่ฆใ€‚

็กฎไฟๆ‚จ็š„ๅฉดๅ„ฟๅœจๅฉดๅ„ฟๅบงๆค…ๆˆ–ๅœจๆ‚จ็š„่…ฟไธŠๅฎ‰ๅ…จๅ็จณใ€‚

่ฆๆœ‰ๆˆไบบๅœจ่ฟ‘ๆ—็œ‹็€ๅฉดๅ„ฟ่ฟ›้ฃŸ๏ผŒไธ€ๆ—ฆๅ‡บ็Žฐๅ™Ž้ฃŸๆˆ–้ฃŸ็‰ฉไธ่‰ฏๅๅบ”็ญ‰้—ฎ้ข˜๏ผŒๅฏๅŠๆ—ถๅค„็†ใ€‚ไธ€ๅฎšไธ่ฆ่ฎฉๅฉดๅ„ฟๅ•็‹ฌ่ฟ›้ฃŸใ€‚

ไบ†่งฃๅฎนๆ˜“ๅผ•่ตทๅ™Ž้ฃŸ็š„้ฃŸๅ“ใ€‚ไธ่ฆ็ป™ๅฉดๅ„ฟๅฐๅ—็š„ๅš็กฌ้ฃŸ็‰ฉ๏ผŒไพ‹ๅฆ‚ๆ•ดไธชๅšๆžœๅ’Œ่พƒๅคง็ง็ฒ’้ฃŸๅ“ใ€‚

ๅœจๅฏถๅฏถ้€ฒ้ฃŸๆ™‚ๅฟ…้ ˆๆณจๆ„ๅฎ‰ๅ…จใ€‚

็ขบๅฎšๅฏถๅฏถๅฎ‰ๅ…จๅœฐๅๅœจๅฌฐๅ…’้ซ˜่…ณๆค…ๆˆ–ๆ‚จ็š„ๅคง่…ฟไธŠใ€‚

ๆˆไบบ้œ€็•™ๅœจๅฏถๅฏถๅ‘จๅœ๏ผŒไปฅๆณจๆ„ๅฆ‚ๅ™Ž้ฃŸๆˆ–ๅฐ้ฃŸ็‰ฉ็”ข็”Ÿๅๆ‡‰็š„ๅ•้กŒใ€‚็ต•ๅฐไธ่ฆ็•™ๅฏถๅฏถๅ–ฎ็จ้€ฒ้ฃŸใ€‚

ไบ†่งฃๅ“ชไบ›้ฃŸ็‰ฉๆ›ดๅฏ่ƒฝไปคๅฏถๅฏถๅ™Ž้ฃŸใ€‚ๅˆ‡ๅ‹ฟๆไพ›้ซ”็ฉๅฐๅˆ็กฌ็š„้ฃŸ็‰ฉ๏ผŒไพ‹ๅฆ‚ๆ•ด้ก†็š„ๅ …ๆžœๆˆ–ๅคง็š„็จฎ็ฑฝใ€‚

์•„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน์„ ๋•Œ ์•ˆ์ „์— ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์„ ์จ์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์œ ์•„์šฉ ๋†’์€ ์˜์ž์— ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ์•‰ํžˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฌด๋ฆŽ์— ์•‰ํžˆ๋„๋ก ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์งˆ์‹์ด๋‚˜ ์Œ์‹ ์•Œ๋ ˆ๋ฅด๊ธฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ์ ์ ˆํžˆ ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์–ด๋ฅธ์ด ์•„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ์ž˜ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณผ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  ์ ˆ๋Œ€๋กœ ์•„๊ธฐ ํ™€๋กœ ์Œ์‹ ๊ณ์— ๋‘์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

์งˆ์‹์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ฌ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋งŽ์€ ์Œ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์•Œ์•„๋‘์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

๊ฒฌ๊ณผ๋ฅ˜๋‚˜ ํฐ ์”จ์•—๋ฅ˜ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ž‘๊ณ  ๋‹จ๋‹จํ•œ ์Œ์‹์€ ์ฃผ์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.  

Key messages 

Safetyโ€™s important when your baby is eating.

Make sure your baby's well-secured in a high chair, or on your lap.

An adult needs to stay close and watch to deal with any problems like choking or a reaction to food. Never leave your baby alone with food.

Find out about foods that are more likely to cause choking.

Donโ€™t offer small hard foods, such as whole nuts and large seeds.

PlunketLine offers parenting advice, including advice about feeding your baby.

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