To ask what's the strangest thing your child has eaten?

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DH just took a half chewed wasp out of DS2's mouth

We assume it was dead before he got to it but can't be sure.

He's none the worse (apart from screaming when it was taken off him).

Please tell me I'm not alone!

A lithium battery (had to have surgery).

Also a small snail - still alive.

Bird shit and DS ate from DD's nappy once.

That's a vomit face btw. Not envy.

A rabbit poo from our pet. I was mortified.

I once took my eyes of dd for about 3 seconds when she was 8 months old. Found her in the bathroom chewing on the toilet brush.... it was apparently delicious as there was an if meltdown when I snatched it away

The Chinese takeaway i scraped from the plates into the bin but got distracted and didn’t put the lid back on it. Came in and he was helping himself to sweet and sour sauce surrounded by tea bags and egg shells.

Oh and cat biscuits.

DS1: Poo (his own), glitter.

DS2: Button battery - fun stay in hospital with that one, a dried ladybird.

My husband ate rabbit treats the other day. The apple clearly doesn't fall far from the tree.

A snail in the garden.

My ex ate cat food when he was a baby. His mum rushed him to a&e where the doctors promptly took the piss, to the effect of if he starts growing fur or a tail, come back then.

Dd used to like eating the jam from her toes. Yuck!

DD- 1) bird poo she stuck her finger in on the front garden wall 🤢
2) she crawled up to DS's potty and was about to reach for a turd nugget when I ran towards her shouting "Nooooooooo!!!"

Oh and DS swallowed a 10p coin 🤦🏼‍♀️ went to A&E and he was most amused when they ran the metal detector over him.

DS his own poo. He was having nappy free time when I found him smeared in his own shit, sucking it off his hands. Whipped him upstairs for a shower, came back down to find the dog had thoroughly cleaned the rest of the mess

Her own poo.

A ladybird. She then claimed to have been eating them for some time. And I made an idiot of myself by calling the GP to ask whether the toddler diahorrea she'd been suffering from was, in fact, ladybird poisoning. GP was confident it was not, but last time she visited ( aged 10), asked my daughter if she still enjoys nibbling on ladybirds 😆

DD a small spade of wet sand. She cried when I took it away and rinsed her mouth with water.

When he was three, my son ate a slug. I shit you not. And amazingly neither did he!

These are all brilliant!

What the fuck is it about insects and shit that is so appetising to small children?

Before I had kids I never knew they could be so gross

Coins, thankfully not swallowed. My make up brushes are also a favourite of DS2.

DP is the winner though. MIL has memories of him regularly eating woodlice as a toddler not envy

We recently caught our 1 year old sitting on the hearth eating a dead birds leg (we assume the bird was stuck in the chimney). He also got very cross at me after I moved him away from an outdoor seat he was trying to lick bird poo off.

A 5p piece I found in the nappy. Phoned GP who said well if it got that far not to worry.

A bit of balloon. Most worrying.
A foam biscuit from a magazine.

I freaked out both times 🙈

Plasticine. Last week. DS is 6YO.

My middle son ate his elder brothers poo after it escaped from a nappy.

He also ate live carpets beetles, repeatedly. He grabbed grass when sat on the lawn at 4 months old and tried to chomp on that. Half a worm at the age of 2, he gave me the other half as he thought I wanted to eat it.

My youngest had a thing for his own poo as a baby, he'd stick his finger in his nappy, lick his finger and go back for more and then say yum.

Sudocrem. It didn't seem to do them any harm. Sand too.

A muffin case