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To ask what's the worst thing your kids have eaten??

162 replies

BlueSpanishEyes · 27/05/2016 12:55

Just caught ds 15mo attempting to eat a dead bug of some sort, wee minger that he is! Anybody elsr caught their toddler attempting to eat/eating something nasty?

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MyBreadIsEggy · 27/05/2016 13:16

Cat food Confused
When I have visitors, I very clearly say "if you leave the leaving room, can you please make sure you close the door all the way".....this still goes over some people's heads (I'm glaring at you Grandad!), and my DD, being the stealthy ninja that she is, manages to sneak the door open, toddle her way to the kitchen, and start chowing down on the cat's meaty mush food.

NestMaker · 27/05/2016 13:17

Found DD in her cot eating sweetcorn .... Straight from her pooey nappy Envy vom.

Still eats weird stuff, nearly a dead worm the other day (she's now 3), I despair.

She's very healthy though Grin

idontlikealdi · 27/05/2016 13:17

A slug.

BadDoGooder · 27/05/2016 13:23

DS has eaten sand, a woodlouse and half a snail
DM made a joke about him needing protein (we are veggie!)

mmgirish · 27/05/2016 13:27

A snail, twice.

Mcchickenbb41 · 27/05/2016 13:31

My beef casserole according to dd Sad

WellErrr · 27/05/2016 13:32

A spiders nest.

I posted on here and was told to feed her a bird.

Love mumsnet Grin

MrsStokes2010 · 27/05/2016 13:33

Sand...it was a nightmare going to the beach as he'd shove handfuls into his mouth & then when it came out the other end it was vile! He was banned from the Sandpit at Nursery lol

Muskey · 27/05/2016 13:35

When dd was little I found her eating sudocrem. It was a very large tub and had only recently been opened. I telephoned. Nhs direct for some advice. I explained what had happened and the lady on the telephone began asking me a number of questions including if my dc was depressed. Err no she's a baby. Eventually the lady said that there were no known cases of overdose with sudocrem. My question to her was that when its rubbed on the bottom or when it has been eaten. The lady was unable to answer that.

MaisieDotes · 27/05/2016 13:40

DS1 (21mo) tried a ladybird a couple of months ago. Bad mother that I am, I didn't notice it on the way in. I just saw it languishing in the drool puddle on his chin so he must have spat it out.

DieDeutschLehrerin · 27/05/2016 13:49

Dd - Cat biscuits (she goes through phases when they are her favourite snack), stones in the mouth, assorted leaves, pins in the mouth (fortunately the were in one of those wheel things so I knew there were none missing), fluff and dust bunnies - she's a menace.
DS is supremely uninterested in eating, it gets in the way of life, so he was never that bad but even he had a go at cat biscuits and soil.
Incidentally DDs immune system seems far more efficient than DS's was at the same age so it doesn't seem to be doing her too much harm.

DieDeutschLehrerin · 27/05/2016 13:51

Oh and she tried to drink bubble liquid, eat soap and a friend's little girl slurped up some of a temporary hair dye pouch like it was an Ella's Kitchen smoothie.

taxworries · 27/05/2016 13:55

Um, I may win. When my bro was two-ish my mum came in one day to find his face smeared with a grey ash and a pot missing from the mantelpiece. Yep, only my grandmither's recently cremated ashes. It is never spoken of.

figginz · 27/05/2016 13:56

DD 17 months: 20p Shock, train tickets, sand, stones, twigs, leaves, books, any insect she can find, the end of my pony tail when she's in the sling, but her absolute favourite is soil.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't feed her enough Hmm Smile

figginz · 27/05/2016 13:57

Oh cripes taxworries. Oh cripes.

Mrsantithetic · 27/05/2016 13:59

Dead and rotting baby bird fetus

An egg had rolled off the roof into the garden and part broken. I saw his mouth going ran to make sure it wasn't a stone or something.

No it was worse much much worse

Blueberry234 · 27/05/2016 14:00

Found my 22 month old holding a live bumblebee by its wing and en route to his mouth yesterday I did stop him with the bumblebee perched on his lower lip

mummy2zni · 27/05/2016 14:01

My mum was forever scooping rocks out of my mouth apparently! My DCs didn't eat anything weird that I can recall - unless you include blue cheese and pickled herrings by DS 5yes at the time! I blame DH that he won't eat 'normal' food! ;-)

Mcchickenbb41 · 27/05/2016 14:02

Taxworries wins

NeedACleverNN · 27/05/2016 14:03

Bumblebee and dead egg are closer seconds...but grandma cremation ashes is definitely a winner

My face literally looked like this Shock

EveryoneElsie · 27/05/2016 14:03

I watched from the kitchen window as DS 1 tried to eat a slug, luckily he spit it out as it tasted nasty.

mummy2zni · 27/05/2016 14:03

mrs eww, just eww

Knew I shouldn't have read this post at lunch. .. vom

Beth2511 · 27/05/2016 14:06

My 18 month old has a thing at the moment for trying to eat her own poop. Tell tale sign of her havung done one is her shoving her hand in her nappy to get a mouthful.

Disgusting girl

Mrscog · 27/05/2016 14:07

Found DS aged 7 months at the time eating a fistful of Dulux Almond White emulsion. Blush.

He's 13 months now and fine!

Shannyfanny · 27/05/2016 14:08

my cousins 2year drank her wine and she found it funny her child was tipsy.
I was sitting there like Confused