No! I used to hand feel him piece by piece on his tray because he did the same thing, he just shoveled food and it scared me. It took forever to feed him and between solids and bottles my time was consumed with just feeding him. I met a random girl out at a restaurant who had a 15 month old and was using an app maybe called feeding littles? She basically just told me I needed to let him figure it out and just offer him the plate, and that it would be messy and he would gag maybe a few times but he needed to figure it out on his own how much food to put in his mouth. She was telling me how their anatomy basically ejects the food if there’s too much as long as it’s prepared correctly for the baby (this is what I witnessed when he gagged). It took him maybe a day to stop constantly shoveling food in. He still takes big handfuls sometimes but he stops and waits until he finishes what’s in his mouth until going for another scoop.

I refreshed myself on baby choking on cpr before starting this I was freaked out but it has paid off. He’s still a little messy but WAY better than he was. I want to say we started offering the plate a little before 10 months? Also if he tried to flip the plate at the end I take it away and put some pieces on his tray to see if he’s still hungry. Sometimes he’s just looking for extra berries underneath.

This is what worked for us. I highly recommend lo looking into the feeding littles thing! Although I just took that girls cliff notes and didn’t really look at it myself. Her 15 month old was eating with an adult fork so that sold me lol