My baby just put a dead shrew in her mouth

[BaylisAndHardon]

Posting in AIBU for traffic, and to ask for a hand hold while I get over this horror.

We live in an old victorian house (with many mouse holes) in the country and have a cat to manage the rodent populus, but he also sometimes brings things in . I always check the floor of the snug for anything and disinfect/scrub if he has before putting her down to play.

But this time he put it under a toy in her play pen and I didn't see it and she picked it up and put it in her mouth before I could lauch myself at her to get it out. I am horrified.

Messages of support please. Also accounts of children who have survived to adulthood after putting disgusting things in their mouths. Tell me your worst. I need to hear it.

I bit a slug in two and ate half, I can actually remember doing it which is really weird, it was very watery 🤢

My Dd ran off in matalan once when she was about 3 and I had a massive panic trying to find her. There she was at the bottom of the escalator licking the handrail as it went round

My DD tried to stuff a dead mouse in MY mouth - eurrgh!

@userxx

I bit a slug in two and ate half, I can actually remember doing it which is really weird, it was very watery 🤢

Vom

As a child I remember my friend’s brother eating all their dad’s fag ends (he was an 80 a day kinda guy so there were a lot!) then barfing them all over the kitchen....no harm done though!

Toddler DS ate a massive spider once... I managed to retrieve the three legs that were still poking out of his mouth, but no more. He was fine.

My son did this too in 2006. He is now a strapping 14 year old.

When my DS had just learnt to roll, he rolled all the way into the kitchen (open plan) and I found him happily licking the water from the cat bowl and splashing in it, laughing his head off 😳 literally had my eyes off him for a second!

Then in January this year he was just turned 2 abs we were at Dunham Massey, and he ate deer poo 😳

My infant daughter put a shrivelled mouse's head in her mouth in our garden when she was little.

She's nearly 7 now and fine.

My daughter once ate some of the solid contents of her potty, she really wishes I would forget about it, 40+ years later! OP, you do realise that your child will get so fed up of hearing this every time there's a family get together!

I'm crying laughing at these 😂😂😂

My mum loves telling a story about finding toddler me with a dead mouse in my mouth, with the tail hanging out (courtesy of family cat). Apparently I wasn’t keen on giving it up and was doing proper Maggie Simpson style sucking. I’m fine. I’m also vegetarian. (My kids both lick pram wheels, shoes, and actually lie down to lick bird poo off the trampoline...)

DD ate a slug (they used to come under rh back door in the house we lived in then). Her brothers still tease her 9 years later.

Apparently I ate my own poo out of my potty (or tried to, anyway).

The worst (hold onto your stomachs) was when I had to temporarily out my son down on the floor at A&E for a few seconds whilst I filled out a form. It took him all off a second to reach out and find a nice big crunchy scab to pop into his mouth. I'd take a shrew over that any day!

My DS, aged about 3, came in from the garden and informed me that he had 'eaten a flower and it didn't have many bugs on it, only two'. I counted it as a serving of protein and one of his five-a-day.

@seriouslymole "his breathe smells of shite" ahahahaha am done in 🤣🤣🤣

My cousin ate sheep droppings

I asked my husband and older dd to watch the baby in the kitchen for 5 minutes while I went to the toilet (she was at the just slowing dragging herself around on the floor stage. Not yet crawling, but able to get places). I return and she is chewing like crazy on the dogs ball 😳😳😳 this ball that was just in the dogs mouth minutes before was in my babies mouth. This happened a few months ago and all well.

@MeringueCloud

My friend's cat brought in a dead baby rabbit and her toddler picked it up and carried it round the house.

This reminds me of the wonderful 'ex fed the children badger' thread. He also fashioned his children a little cuddly toy out of a dead rabbit! It's worth a read. In classics, I think!

I was fed sheeps poo by other kids. Still alive.

Oh and another time on my dh watch (this time w my son) he was sitting on the bench and letting my son (baby at the time) standing holding on and biting where all this dried bird poop was. Son is now 7 and all was fine.

Am laughing at the sheep droppings!

You should buy your cousin a bag of chocolate 'sheep droppings'.

Oh, OP.

If it's any consolation at all, I found one of my DC sucking merrily on a loo brush.

The potential dangers involving small toddlers and loo brushes might explain why they are reviled on MN.

(He was absolutely fine, btw, and is now a very healthy young man).

I will never forget the text I received from my partner when he was out with our 1 year old “she’s put sheep poo in her mouth what do I do”