Bloody Kerplunk!!!

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Played this game with my 2 DC loads!

DS1 (aged 6) went up to stairs to get a toy for each of us to have in our team, I went to the toilet at the same time (also upstairs) and DS2 (aged 3) has told when I came down a whole minute later he "put a marble in his tummy"

Totally out of character and of all the thousands of times we've played this game he's never ever put one in his mouth.

He's eating and drinking fine, breathing no issues. I've got him to take deep breaths through his nose, I've held his nose and got him to breathe through his mouth all no issues. Ive phoned NHS 24 and waiting on an advisor to phone me back to see if we need to go to hospital.

I'm trying not to panic and hoping they'll tell me it will just pass through...if he's even swallowed it. I have no idea!

So mad at myself and I know so so so stupid of me to leave him, but I honestly wouldn't have thought he would have done this! I feel like such a shit mum right now. 😢

You aren’t a shit Mum, kids are unpredictable and can put anything in their mouth at any age. I hope it all works out ok!

When my brother was about 6 he stuck a boggie from a Dick and board game up his nose. He had to have it sucked out in a&e.

Could he have meant he stuck it in his belly button?

(...and you're not a shit Mum. )

If it helps, my 16yo dd swallowed a bit of Lego last month
Not even a little bit, a 4x2 chunky rectangle bit.
Nhs24 told me itd probably work it's way through, and only to worry if there was blood, or she had stomach pains. I'm sure the nurse hung up and pissed herself laughing - she kept saying "16? Really?"
Dd will never be allowed to forget it!

My ds was 3 when he told me he had swallowed a window key. Took him to a&e where they x-rayed him, saw it wasn’t in the windpipe so just gave him some choc cake and squash to wash it through - which it did (yuck).

You really aren’t a shit mum.

I don’t think Id worry too much about a marble if he wasnt choking on it. It’s nice and hard and smooth and should go right through quite nicely.

Oh i thought this was going to be a moan about the stupid spikes you have to put in.

I made my sister swallow a marble when she was a similar age and it was fine, just came out apparently.

Thank you all so much. I've barely slept a wink constantly checking on him. He slept like an angel all night and is having breakfast as normal. The nurse phoned me back and said exactly what you all have. She said it was so common in kids and only to worry if he complains of a sore tummy and bleeding etc.

Still feel awful, they're going with their dad today and just about to text him about it. Waiting for the abuse of how dare I leave them and how it will be all my fault. Which I know it is but still I feel bad enough about it so I'm not looking forward to this.

@ImaginaryFoe I thought about that it was the first thing I checked but no! Lol

DS1 swallowed the metal ball from Mousetrap when he was 5. We tracked its passage with his metal detector and it came out just fine a couple of days later.

Have they pushed a bead up their nose yet? That's another one they do. Kids are so stupid sometimes.

Have they pushed a bead up their nose yet?

DD2 did when she was 6. There then followed a traumatic evening at A&E where they failed to remove it, so we had to go back the next morning to the ENT dept where they succeeded with a special thingy-bob. (I blame DH, he did bedtime and knew she was playing with beads and didn't remove them!)

Glad he’s ok OP

I swallowed a pound coin when I was about 14

I didn’t mean to. I was messing about with it balanced on my lips whilst I was laying down. It hit the back of my throat and I just swallowed without thought.

It worked it’s way out a few days later. Never felt a thing but I saw it at the bottom of the toilet.

Thanks everyone I just got a fright with bow matter of fact he was about it. I stupidly spent the night googling so of course only found the horror stories. Which scared me sick of course.

Thankfully all seems well and hopefully it will pass in a couple days 😊

Are you more worried because of your exes reaction?

Kids do silly things. It happens to the best of us. It does not make you a bad mum

Glad to hear he's ok at the moment. My 4yo is totally likely to do this so I haven't let him have marbles yet

@RebootYourEngine I wouldn't say I was more upset with that - it was more something else piled on top. He's the Disney dad sees them the equivalent of less them 2 days over 2 weeks but he can get quite angry sometimes and I don't like the kids going when he's angry. He was okish when I told him.

We've played the game millions of times and he's never put any of them near his mouth! I couldn't believe it. He's right as rain, I've checked in with them a few times and he's his usual self.

I guess it's just the waiting game now. Kerplunk is in the charity box now though! 😂🙈

My then 3 year old put a Lego stud up his nose. I remember him turning to me and saying "Mummy I putted it and I can't get it back." Took me a while to realise what he meant. We ended up in a walk in clinic and a nice doctor removed it with tweezers.
I concluded he was just jealous of his big brother who'd broken his arm two days before. If we'd had to go back to A&E I'd have cried.

My son swallowed a marble-for some reason he popped it in his mouth-just as his brother hit him-a mad dash to a&e I was told it would come out the other end within 24 hours
I dunno if it ever did cos I refused to check!
Your not a shit mum-you haven’t had a childhood if you haven’t done something daft

He was okish when I told him.

Translation = something similar has happened on his watch and he didn’t tell you about it at the time! ;)

DS (3 at the time) stuffed a piece of Lego up his nose and first I knew about it was a few days later when he sneezed it out. Despite a long chat about how we don’t push things up our noses, a few weeks later he shoved an orange pip up there at nursery. We again only realised a week or so later when he started complaining his nose hurt and when questioned, admitted he’d “put an orange up his nose”. One trip to A&E later, we were taught the magic/mothers’ kiss for extracting similar objects! Luckily we haven’t needed to do it since.