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.

DS and a fellow toddler friend spent a happy half hour finding and eating slugs in the garden!

My granny used to tell me about how her older sister used to feed her berries on walks. The berries were sheep droppings!

My daughter sucked some raw chicken breast aged 2 or so. She also brought a rotting, dead mouse in from the garden and kindly put it on the dining table. Oh, and my brother ate a live earwig when he was a baby... he’s 52 now!

My 4 year old licked the side of the conveyor belt at Tesco early March shortly before lockdown. Licked is the wrong word actually, he sort of polished it with his tongue. I guess my hurried instructions not to touch anything weren't comprehensive enough

Ah, don’t worry, OP.

DBIL ate cat poo when he was a toddler. He survived and is now a father of two with one on the way.

Proud parent of another poo eater. She fished it out of her own nappy, I was HORRIFIED. We all lived to tell the tale.

DUncle used to eat rabbit droppings when he was small (made his DM vault out of a groundfloor window once) - he's eighty now, so it didn't hurt him.

Human beings used to be low in the food chain, so we evolved to eat all sorts of "stuff" .

Friends DD then 2 or 3 are a cat turd out the litter box. They caught her mid snack not envy.

DD2 at about 18 months put the headless corpse of a mouse in her mouth - I grabbed it before she actually bit down.

She is now 18, at uni and has passed her driving test. She eats a balanced diet with many vegetables and has not knowingly (as far as I am aware) repeated this.

@HomeSliceKnowsBest

Friends DD then 2 or 3 are a cat turd out the litter box. They caught her mid snack not envy.

way before I had children I was at a friends house. She leapt up, swooped her toddler away shotuing; 'It's not a fucking cookie jar'.

I thought that was horrifying. Now I'd probably laugh.

Gross thread lol!

My dd ate grass at school with her friend and ate discarded chewing gum off of the floor.

My little one has put slugs and snails in her mouth a couple of times, I've moved faster than lightning to scoop them out and throw them away from her! . She's such a fussy eater as she's autistic but apparently slugs and snails are delicious!? Oh and poo, she's tasted the odd poo at times. Bogeys to off course... Toe jam.. 🤢🤮... Hideous. You're not alone, it'll be OK 💩😘😉

Dog biscuits to once.. , can't leave her alone fow a second!

My daughter the a gecko

15 month old daughter waved a short chunky stick at me in the park shouting "Stick! Stick!". Went to congratulate her on her use of language and on closer inspection found it was not a stick. It was a huge semi dried out piece of dog shit.

I hadn't noticed that my cat was sick on the sofa the other day untill I looked down to see what my 18 month old was doing, he was rubbing his hands in it, pretty sure he got some in his mouth too😭

as a small child i had been known to eat small sweets that i found on the pavement.

Also when my little brother was 2 we went black Berry picking he couldn't reach so was trailing behind eating what he thought were one that had been dropped on the ground.. It was rabbit droppings.

Some of these are making me feel ill, toddlers are weird creatures for sure! Worst I think we have had is the kids taking turns picking and eating each others bogeys. No idea why

This..turd and stuff though, I don't understand why they don't spit it out as I imagine it tastes bloody vile? My kids spit out multiple food items as apparently they are gross, I would hope the same would happen with random dead animals and shites!

When my DS was a few months old I left him on his changing matt on the floor whilst I washed my hands. He was crying, then he stopped.

I walked back in to see him swinging half a mouse around by the tail and gore around his mouth.

The cat looked very proud to have fed the baby.

He's 15 now and unharmed so it'll be a great tale for when he has a partner one day

What’s wrong with these babies to do such disgusting things?!😳😂

I’m sure she’ll be just find OP. They say that playing in dirt etc can make kids build some immunity to certain childhood cancers, obviously not all and not for everyone.

Living in a sterile environment is probably as bad as it is good.

My cat is an absolute bastard for bringing things in, so I do feel your pain!

@TableFlowerss

What’s wrong with these babies to do such disgusting things?!😳😂

I’m sure she’ll be just find OP. They say that playing in dirt etc can make kids build some immunity to certain childhood cancers, obviously not all and not for everyone.

Living in a sterile environment is probably as bad as it is good.

amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/21/most-common-childhood-cancer-partly-caused-by-lack-of-infection

This is a link OP.

Dear friend of mine as a child (Maybe about 6 or 7?) found a dead vole in her garden. She put it in a bucket with a load of grass and leaves and called it voley. Apparently her parents let her carry this corpse in a bucket for 4 DAYS until it started to decompose.

Funnily enough her parents are both doctors too....

Anyway...

My DS has eaten:
The soap bar off a ladyshave razor (not the blade itself and not a scratch on him thank god)
Honeysuckle berries (yoinked them off a vine by leaning out of his pram when he was tiny... still not sure how he reached)
Many bogeys
Ear wax
Washing up liquid and paint mixed together for bubble pictures that my mum gave him
to blow bubbles into but instead he drank like a milkshake (not envy)

He also gnawed for an unspecified amount of time on the black rubber strip around the window on a London bus. (That was on his fathers watch...)

Can’t remember any more.

Hes fine. He’s 4 and snoring away next to me right now.