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

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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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rainbowstardrops · 27/05/2016 14:12

My DD chomped on some coal from the coal bucket. Wasn't all that bad though because the photo of it won a photography competition!

Tax that is totally Couldn't help but chuckle that it's not spoken of now. How awful!

Elle80 · 27/05/2016 14:18

My youngest DD, now two and a half was an absolute nightmare with putting things in her mouth. When she first started crawling I noticed she had something in her mouth so I pulled it out and it was a tooth the dog had lost I phoned my mum in tears over that one.

I've also caught her munching on chewing gum my eldest DD brought in on her shoes. If I thought too much about it I'd go mad. Obviously now I am a lot more careful about checking things too

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 27/05/2016 14:19

Tortilla chips, leftover from the previous night, from the bin!

It was ds1 - he was around 2, and was going through the Terrible Twos. He'd had a 1.5 hour long tantrum the night before, it was not yet 8.30am, and he'd already been screaming for 45 minutes solid. I was sobbing on the phone to dh, when it went quiet - suspiciously so - so I hung up and went to investigate - and found him by the kitchen bin, eating the leftover tortilla chips dh had thrown away the night before.

I knew if I stopped him, he'd go back to tantrumming, and I couldn't face that, so I let him carry on eating them until he had had enough, and wandered off. Then I emptied the bin, and found a space for it in a cupboard, where he couldn't get at it!

It is not my finest parenting moment.

allthecoffeeplease · 27/05/2016 14:20

Sat in a cafe and my dd (2) emerged delighted from under table , chewing someone else's used gum. Amother low point was flicking a part chewed cigarette butt from ds (1) mouth.

zoobeedoo · 27/05/2016 14:30

Too many to mention when little,but at the age of 8 (years, not months) I had to explain why it wasn't ok to drink the fish tank water. He promises me he hasn't done it.

oldlaundbooth · 27/05/2016 14:35

'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.'

KC225 · 27/05/2016 14:44

10 months old the twins manage to find a moment I had not closed the baby gate to the kitchen, I caught them tucking into the cat food. Sachets in gravy but still.... They cried when I took it from them and there was no sign of a upset tummy. Up until then I had been making everything from scratch and could quote Annabel Karmel's baby weaning book by heart - lightened up a bit after that.

Another time caught them eating deer poo in Richmond Park. I was freaking out and DH said 'Relax, it's all the things you like, organic and locally sourced' Again, no upset tummies.

SusannahD · 27/05/2016 14:48

A wood louse, he was about 2 looking at it in the garden and I turned round for a moment turned back wood louse gone and him chewing. He swallowed it, I felt sick and got us both a drink.

sunnyoutside · 27/05/2016 14:50

Dc2 - Banana milkshake followed, straight away, by orange juice. Her dad thought it would be fine. The clear up was not pretty.

Dc1 - bark from a tree

Katedotness1963 · 27/05/2016 14:52

No insects, but the eldest is quite adventurous food wise, he's had snails, kangaroo, crocodile, haggis, emu, black pudding, but the worst was on a cross channel ferry when he had a huge plate of shellfish that he picked apart while I sat across from him with some plain rice as seasick as you could be...

Oh, MacDonalds, I loathe it and it makes me mad they eat it.

MyballsareSandy2015 · 27/05/2016 14:52

Not exactly eating but caught my DDs licking a loo brush once, taking it in turns very nicely

GiraffesAndButterflies · 27/05/2016 14:53

Tax wins by a country mile, OMFG that must have been awful

Junosmum · 27/05/2016 14:54

When he was 18mo DH ae a banana (skin and all) dipped (as in fallen in to) white paint.

KoalaDownUnder · 27/05/2016 15:01

A friend saw her toddler chewing busily on something in a sandpit, and rushed to hook it out with her finger.

It was a condom. Not still in its packet.

PeppermintPasty · 27/05/2016 15:03

I had a very elderly cat, on his last legs but still enjoyed eating. We put his favourite armchair in the hall so it was nearer the door. One day the cat had left his perma-spot on the armchair and my 11 month old ds was cruising along the hall furniture. I was watching him from the living room but couldn't see all the furniture.

He stopped at the cat's chair for a while and I was chatting to him whilst doing something or other. I looked up and he was stuffing fresh (is fresh better?!!) cat sick into his mouth. It looked like it had come out of the tin, poor old cat had eaten it and brought it up immediately.

YUM!

Whilst trying not to throw up myself, I whisked him away. No idea how much he ate. He's nine now, loves it when I tell that story, absolutely loves it

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 27/05/2016 15:08

"Another time caught them eating deer poo in Richmond Park. I was freaking out and DH said 'Relax, it's all the things you like, organic and locally sourced'"

Organic and locally sourced!

EveryoneElsie · 27/05/2016 15:16

Deer and rabbit poo are known as 'floor raisins'

ferretygubbins · 27/05/2016 15:19

When Boy1 was about 10 months old I found him chewing on a dead mouse brought in by one of the cats. Doesn't seemed to have damaged him too much as he's now 15 years old although a much fussier eater.

MurphysChild · 27/05/2016 15:22

Chinese takeaway scraped off the plates into a bin bag. Bin bag was by the door waiting to go out. DS in a baby walker was at the right level, came into the kitchen to see him enjoying cold, day old sweet and sour chicken from the bin. Yummy.

meffhead · 27/05/2016 15:26

Our DS is 6 and has a gastrostomy. He only eats chocolate buttons, cream crackers and the soil from MIL's prized rubber plant !

Shakirawannabe · 27/05/2016 15:30

A woodlice. He throws them at me now. ds is 3

Shakirawannabe · 27/05/2016 15:32

Sorry woodlouse

Kenworthington · 27/05/2016 15:37

Ds2 ate his own poo once when he was about 18 months old. He'd just had a bath and was sat on the sofa naked and it must have just popped out and he'd popped it in his mouth , he carried on chewing whilst making bleugh faces before I noticed. His breath stank of shit for ages , he's eaten bugs and greenfly and all stuff since but nothing beats the poo for hideousness he's 13 now and fortunately grown out of it (though he's still pretty grubby)

Littleorangecat · 27/05/2016 15:40

My dd age some poo (diahorrea) in fact. I freaked out, may have cried a bit, called the emergency doctor (pfb) and was reassured by the lovely lady. She's still here age nearly 7

cattychatty · 27/05/2016 15:40

Windowlene, ear drops , dirty engine oil and adult cough medicine she's 18 now but she was a horror

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