What's the worst thing your young child ate?

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Is it as bad as mine?

Mouse liver (albeit spat out)

Mouse liver?! Where did they find that??

My DS was on the bus one day, aged about 2. I was sorting something in the pushchair. Turned round to check on him and he had something in his mouth ... it was a huge wodge of old chewing gum that he'd fished up from between the seats and decided to try 🤢

Hahahaha love it! My 6 month old chewed the dogs foot.

Nowhere near as bad, but my 3 year old has been learning about growing seeds at nursery this month and they sent him home with a little plastic cup with a sunflower seedling in it. We've also been moving house so things aren't 100% childproof yet. Long story short, 15 month old DC2 climbed onto the windowsill and ate DC1's sprouted sunflower seedling and some of the damp cotton wool it was growing in before I got it off her.
I feel a mum of the year award is on its way with my name on it.

He didn't eat it but DS1 cleaned his teeth with the toilet brush when he was a toddler. He's 22 now and uses a regular toothbrush.

Sunflower seeds are a good source of protein! Not sure about the cotton wool 😂

The mouse liver was found by DC age 1, on the carpet in the middle of the play area amongst the toys. Thanks Cat. You could've had your midnight snack ANYWHERE but you just had to choose around the kids toys.

My friends dc, a dead bloodied mouse the cat had brought in. Blood everywhere! He was about 1.

She’s 33 now, but I still recall picking up an earthworm in the garden and showing DD when she was 2. She took it from my hand, bit it neatly in half, and was v reluctant to spit out the half she was enthusiastically chewing…!

Ahah! High five on the mouse guts!

Half a slug. I only managed to fish the other half out of his mouth but he had already swallowed some.

Didn’t eat, but drank a bottle of days old mixed formula- it was lumpy 🤢
He is now 10 and has a much more discerning/ fussy palate 🥹

Nothing, maybe toilet roll when my son had pica (clean not used!) but mine never ate weird things like bugs / dog food etc that I hear other peoples kids eating 🤷🏻‍♀️

Toddler son in car seat. Sitting waiting for the traffic lights to change to green when I heard mmmm, yum, yum. Turned around to find he had somehow stood on a slice of discarded pizza on the pavement and was happily peeling it off the bottom of his shoe and devouring it. He didn't seem to suffer any ill effects.
My other son ate a whole tub of strawberries, including all the leaves.

Omg these are horrific but I can't stop laughing 😂🙈
My DDs never ate anything that bad that I can remember but my 3yo dd has her finger in her nose 99% of the time and is constantly eating her bogies 🤢

@AiryFairy1 this is it isn't it! They eat the most awful things and then they won't eat that pasta at the dinner table because it has "green bits" on it!

Rabbit droppings/poo🤢💩….. prob thought they were chocolate- absolutely would not spit them out and was very cross I spoiled her fun🤮

At least half a large tub of sudocrem, before I wondered why she was so quiet. After some barfing and a trip to the doctors, she was fine - but her poos were interesting for a bit 🤢

Soap that looked like a cheese sample in the supermarket. She picked up a block, took a bite, chewed, and swallowed. The vomiting ten minutes later was memorable.

My firstborn was absolutely fine... no dramas in terms of ingesting odd disgusting things, but for me it's the second child who I can't seem to watch every second.

A completely raw chicken nugget, in a highchair in a restaurant in Wales. I didn't cut them in half because they were small, and they hadn't seen the inside of an oven. I was horrified.

Bright green salt dough at playgroup. We only discovered that when it reappeared intact!. He was fine with no I'll effects thankfully

My friend was potty training her ds and when she turned her back he ate his own shit 🤢

You might like this thread www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/3354322-Gross-things-your-DC-have-eaten-off-the-floor

This was mine:

My dd was found aged about 15 months eating sweet corn kernels in the back garden.

We reckon she found them in the outside drain trap when some must have escaped in to the sink when we had had sweet corn 5 days earlier.

A red and very poisonous-looking berry in a botanic garden. Thankfully they had a plant poisons expert on hand who was able to identify it as something benign!

A glow stick, (turned the light off to clean them up)

A red crayon. Actually the plum stone was worse as we were advised to check for it. If they get to the stomach ok they dissolve into gritty poo.

Found 2 year old running her finger round the toilet bowl and eating the Harpic toilet cleaner. She'll be 50 next month so no harm done!