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AIBU?

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To eat bits of my child?

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TastyMorsels · 24/07/2011 22:19

Name changed here as what I'm going to admit sounds rather appaling. I have a lovely new baby, and her skin is flaking off now thanks to her being a tad overdue. The skin underneath is perfect and peachy soft. The bits that are coming off are causing her no discomfort. Anyway, when she's feeding I find myself plucking at her skin and teasing away bits that are ready to come off. And eating them. Is this cannabalism?? She doesn't appear to notice, and I only caught myself doing it once, and thought WTF??? For what it's worth i used to bite my older dd's nails when she was a baby, and nibble them up. It just seemed an automatic reaction to pop the bits of skin in my mouth, who knows how many bits i'd scoffed before I realised what I was doing. So, erm, aibu?

OP posts:

WhoseGotMyEyebrows · 25/07/2011 09:55

mrszimmerman uuueeuerrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk!

LadyFlumpalot · 25/07/2011 09:58

Actually just spat my tea out when I read mrszimmerman's post followed by FilthyDirtyHeathens's Do you actually swallow?

PlentyOfPubgardens · 25/07/2011 10:02

I would imagine this is probably perfectly normal mammalian behaviour that most of us have been civilised out of. I hope you're not also wolfing down her nappy contents though

Charleymouse · 25/07/2011 10:29

Tasty
just to reassure you (or add myself to the weird set, not sure which) when the DCs were little I used to use the sucking nose technique when they were bunged up. I also bit their nails when really tiny and they were so soft and tiny they just got lost in saliva.

I have occasionally picked at cradle cap when they are feeding and half asleep (after treating with oil), sometimes (shock horror) the easiest way to remove debris from under my nail is to use an incisor, therefore I have probably eaten some cradle cap as well.

I may also be a little weird as after my dad died my mum kept him in the cupboard under the stairs and we packed him off with mars bars, creme eggs and various treats as you do. I decided when I was pregnant with DD I would have a spoonful of Dad for good luck. He just tasted a bit ashy to be honest, not even a tiny sign of all the blardy confectionary. Oh just to clarify this was his cremated remains she didn't just keep him under the stairs after he died.

Hope this makes you feel better.

DirtyMartini · 25/07/2011 10:34

Did I read that last post right - you ate bits of your dad's ashes?

I'm not sure if it was a joke or not

Charleymouse · 25/07/2011 10:39

Dirty, no you read it right. Not sure if I should have posted that though now I may seem a bit strange and I am not really. I only had a spoonful not like a bowlful. Mum had got him back from the crem and wanted to show me so I just had a small taste.

altinkum · 25/07/2011 10:41

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

mrszimmerman · 25/07/2011 10:44

I am formally leaving this thread... it's just too much for my mind to take!

lookout · 25/07/2011 10:53

This is certainly the most bizarre thread I have ever read. Eating skin flakes is odd enough itself, but your father's ashes? Sucking baby boy willies? Where on earth will this end??

michelleseashell · 25/07/2011 11:13

I wanted to keep all the skin. There were some big bits! Like nearly a whole forearm's worth came off in one go!

I kept telling my baby that this was one for the skin box.

I did just bin them but I'll admit it was regretfully.

DirtyMartini · 25/07/2011 11:17

OP and charleymouse, I don't think you should worry about all the outrage being expressed. People do all sorts of stuff and in the bigger picture it strikes me as pretty harmless, if a little odd, to munch bits that come off a baby, or a little taste of ashes.

I mean ok, it is perhaps very odd. But so what, really? If we all had our oddities exposed to the world I'm sure you'd find there was a lot out there that seemed MUCH weirder :)

I'm sure that by the time I've posted this there will be ten more "eeeeeew" comments on the thread. Inevitable really

dementedma · 25/07/2011 11:53

don't know which is worse, the OP's post or Charleymouse's. Both completely and utterly gross!

SmethwickBelle · 25/07/2011 12:01

Blimey this is going off on some odd tangents. After my miscarriage I had dreams where I ate the lost baby, I interpreted this as wanting them back so badly, as part of me, to absorb them. It was a comforting dream at the time.

Charleymouse I imagine that is along similar lines to where you were coming from.

TheOriginalFAB · 25/07/2011 12:04

I think I might actually be sick.

YABD.

yoshiLunk · 25/07/2011 12:08

OP - Not weird to gently peel your baby, i'm a bit of a picker myself, but to munch on it and tell us here - that is a little odd.

Charleymouse - I am still puzzling over what has gone on here. Your dear Dad's ashes were kept under the stairs - nothing strange there, but I don't understand the "we packed him off with mars bars ... as you do" ? Do you mean you had chocolate treats packed in his urn as you do ? - I really need some clarification please.

Dorje · 25/07/2011 12:13

You need to take a multi MINERAL and VITAMIN supplement. Solgar make great ones. Take iron also Spatone is easily tolerated.

We eat non food when our bodies are minerally depleted - I think it's called pica.
Congratulations on the birth of your baby - but she obviously took a lot out of you so be nice to yourself and supplement your diet to bring your minerals up again.

Enjoy your baby!

ShowOfHands · 25/07/2011 12:17

yoshi, I think Charley means that when his coffin was taken away with her lovely Dad in it, they had also put in mars bars etc for him.

I am very surprised Charley. In fact in ordinary circumstances I'd think it was a wind up, but I know you and it's not your style. It's certainly interesting.

yoshiLunk · 25/07/2011 12:29

Oh I see, Show, that makes more sense.

It's not something I would do CharleyMouse but I can understand it would be something that might bring comfort that part of your Dad's spirit was somehow being passed onto his Granddaughter, - I get that.

FuzzpigFourFiveSix · 25/07/2011 12:31

I'm a picker/peeler as well. DS is recovering from chicken pox (and his eczema is going peely again because we had to take a break from wet wrapping) and it is pure hell for me ATM - have to sit on my hands.

I also nibbled off his nails when they were too delicate to use nail trimmers. And I readily admit to getting a huge thrill out of extracting those enormous crusty bogeys that toddlers get.

But I never ever EAT anybody else's bodily products thank you!

DirtyMartini · 25/07/2011 12:43

God yes, I love extracting the huuuuge crusty bogeys. DS hates it but allows it under suffrance.

DirtyMartini · 25/07/2011 12:43

(but I don't eat them)

mrszimmerman · 25/07/2011 12:44

someone needs to stop this thread because it's making me heave a bit.

It's like just knowing about the film 'the human centipede' I wish I didn't know about it because it has slightly ruined my life..... just the knowledge.. .it's like a kind of human stain on my consciousness.

HairBearz · 25/07/2011 12:46

This thread title makes me feel ill.

DirtyMartini · 25/07/2011 12:49

Yeah, it's another thread that helps the case for AIBU threads to vanish after x amount of days as per Chat.

scottishmummy · 25/07/2011 12:51

if you all so repulsed stop reading it
is it honestly worst thing you've read,or thought about?
it is def bit gross,but not i cant think digusting

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