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.

Never does my cat any harm - but I think hers are very freshly dead when she eats them.
I just hate that she always wants to give me big kisses afterwards.

Shrew have venom in their saliva but can't imagine it bit her if dead. Don't worry, open a bottle of red and breath

DS once licked his pram wheel until it was sparkling clean... we live in Central London & had just returned from the park, so I'm pretty sure it was coated in a lovely combo of Pigeon/Dog shite.

He is 3 now, perfectly healthy & still pretty fucking disgusting at times

When DS was 8 months old, I used to go to a craft group at a local cafe. He was so good, and used to sit in a high chair watching us and enjoying all the attention. When we got home, he spent a long time going red and grunting before filling his nappy. I went to change him and saw something bright pink sticking out of his dirty nappy - it was a sizeable square of felt that he'd munched at the cafe. Not as grim as a shrew, just a bit weird!

DD (3) licked a dustbin in the park last year. Still alive. Thankfully less licking this year.

Ive eaten worms, grass, mud.. my lil one crunched up a snail

When DS was about 2.5 we took him to the farm, he’d not had bottles for a long time by this point I must point out. One of the activities was feeding the new lambs with a bottle, the lady handed the bottle intended for the lamb to him and he promptly put it in his mouth and started sucking!

Yes Worms, my sibling, plus a coin, came out shiny, also we fed little brother Nappysan. He is now an adult and is fine (?)!

Slugs are dangerous VERY! can be deadly, Spiders woodlice, worms good protein 🤣

All this is revolting and very funny! (The winner is "licking the cat's bum." I'm sure baby will be absolutely fine. Don't worry.

Mine ate a daddy long legs! Managed to retrieve some of it but not all! And she was fine 🤣

About two years ago, child no.3 was a crawling baby of ten months. He crawled over to ‘the making’ crafty shelves in our kitchen and had a good nose about. Shelves are also next to the dog’s bed. The horror of looking over and seeing him jiggle and chew something in his month, I rushed over and opened his mouth. Expecting a sequin or a Pom Pom. But no! A dog toe nail. It was the worst thing I’ve ever pulled out of my kids’ mouths. And it still makes me retch.

He’s fine btw!!

At least the shrew was dead and didn't bite her inside her mouth. That would deserve a trip to an A&E, a tetanus jab and antibiotics.

I used to eat chewing gum off the floor and the 10 second rule was a 40 minute rule

Neither of my kids have eaten anything like that (although the ferile DS) may well have sneaked some in. However my DD did eat a gel airfrshener when she was 1 and a half. I panicked and called 111, who had to contact a poison center but it wa non toxic. After that panic, I found the contents of the bloody thing in her nappy!!!!

My niece was 2 1/2 when nephew born, his umbilical cord fell off, she chewed on it for about 15 mins until one of us realised! 🤢🤢🤢

Yes slugs can be extremely dangerous to eat, I read a story recently about a young guy who ate one as a dare and ended up in a coma then severely disabled for a few years before passing away in his 20s :(

We used to keep extremely free-range hens.
Niece thought chicken poo was delicious.
18 years later she’s still reminded of it, but is now doing law at uni. Happy, healthy, bolshy student.
Don’t worry. The old ‘uns used to say ‘a peck o’ dirt afore ye die’.

Sorry I couldn’t help but nearly wet myself laughing 😂. Grim but funny 😆

My late mum (she lived to 90 years old)told me that she tried dog biscuits and I have tried all manner of animal food as an adult too.My mum was generally very sensible but once,for some reason, told my then small dd not to put the raisins she was eating in her ear-so she shoved one up her nose.This meant my quickest ever visit to A & E as dd was so terrified of hospitals and was in floods of tears that the now lubricated raisin came out by itself as we walked in.

I grew up on the family dairy & sheep farm. You don't want to know what my little hands touched and then my mouth😂 I'm 66 now and have hardly had any illnesses.

Urgh, the umbilical cord one wins the grossest thing so far!

DS eats anything he finds on the floor. He ate a large bluebottle, we didn’t realise until he sicked it up again and all the hairy legs were floating about in it. He’s also eaten mouse poo. We often find him chewing on something and looking guilty so I dread to think what else has gone in there.

When I was under a year old my mum thought I had a stone in my mouth, but it turned out to be a mouses head.

I was and am fine.

I confess that I remember how ladybirds taste- and earth. In my defence I was very very young.
One of my children had nappynoff time while daddy was supposed to be watching her. She shat and I walked in to her shovelling it into her mouth in sheer delight.

When DD was about 2 she ate a snail she found in the garden, and threw it up moments later in a flurry of green froth. I was horrified but figured it wouldn’t happen again. She did the exact same thing the next day... Now nearly 7 and perfectly healthy!