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.

My friend once found her child munching on a loo brush 🤢

@Mehmehmeh19

Once on a picnic my baby nephew picked up a petrified dog poo, it was tucked just under the blanket. Just about got it in his mouth!

My other nephew cried because he wanted one

I’m crying 😂

As toddlers, DD1 ate a garden snail, and DD2 a worm.

DDIL found DGD (aged 2) drinking water out of the toilet on a hot day, this summer!

My friends dd aged 4 pushed a raisin up her nose. Gp said give her a week it will probably come out on its own.
It did a few days later. She sneezed, the raisin shot out and before her dm could stop her the dd had picked up the slimy raisin and ate it!

Do not worry..... babies commonly eat worms, insects, dog food, cat sick, anything and it will all help to build up their immunity. It's downright good for youngsters to get dirty...

Shrews are high in protein and calcium, and low in fat and carbs.

They're probably very nourishing.

I found my pair playing with a dead mouse in the sandpit the other week. I’m not entirely sure if it’s fate (I’m am however presuming that the toddlers did not kill it 😂) but I’m guessing it probably drowned in one of the buckets that had filled up with water overnight during the storm. Who knows? Anyway they are both perfectly fine and the mouse had a fitting disposal in the bottom of a hedge!

My brother drove a toy car in my grandmother's cat litter tray (full of poo), then drove it elsewhere including on a bed and he had some bits of cat litter around his mouth...

Sorry my lads were total clean freaks hahaha am so laughing at this !!!!!

I however fell face first into sheep Shite age about 3 and it went in my mouth . I still remember this !

Mine used to chew shoes left by the front door after the wearer had just got home on the train.

And they all found and chewed dried chewing gum on the underside of pews in church and desks in school.

We never even got head lice.

I once found dd with half a slug in her mouth! I screamed and vomited which scared her.
Ds also carried a dead rabbit around like a baby. He wanted to name it ‘Adrian’. It took a lot of bribery convincing to give me Adrian.

Is she cute OP? I mean, personally i'd take her to market and try to swap her for a new one but i guess if she's VERY cute then the long cycle on the washing machine might do the job.

@Audreyseyebrows

I once found dd with half a slug in her mouth! I screamed and vomited which scared her. Ds also carried a dead rabbit around like a baby. He wanted to name it ‘Adrian’. It took a lot of bribery convincing to give me Adrian.

I'd have done similar and left her and the dead slug in the garden

@CentrifugalBumblePuppy

My daughter ate a large earthworm (after being dared by her brother) and licked a cat’s bum (again, her brother & cousin). And put a dead frog in her mouth of her own accord.

She was 2 then. She turned 24 a few weeks ago. (And her cousin, 29 & brother, 28, still bring the story up every Christmas!). And she used to suck the dogs ears. Still alive.

If your child has any scratch marks or injuries around her mouth, call 111 (outside chance of tetanus perhaps), otherwise make sure they drink well, keep an eye for temperature changes/vomiting etc & seek professional help if needed.

But I’m sure everything will be fine.

Licked a cats bum that has made me laugh 🤣

Apparently my kids have some genetic defect as they all are bin lickers.
As in public bins, absolutely foul. But they all have done it and they all have a decent age gap so not copying each other.
I haven’t been told that I was a bin licker and there are two separate dads, so guess it’s my genes!
Bloody disgusting, and not just once each.... luckily all past that stage now!

My Nephew took a bite out of a slug when he was a baby and he is now a strapping 28 year old. I think human babies have ate all sorts of things and the human race is still thriving.

When my DD was 2 she picked up chewing gum from the pavement and chewed it for a good 5 seconds before I prised it out of her mouth. 🤢

She’s 17 now....and absolutely fine 😂

@SleepingStandingUp Haha! I think I did leave her!

@Audreyseyebrows

I once found dd with half a slug in her mouth! I screamed and vomited which scared her. Ds also carried a dead rabbit around like a baby. He wanted to name it ‘Adrian’. It took a lot of bribery convincing to give me Adrian.

Oh god 😂😂

My then 2 year old brought me a snail she had found - on her tongue . She just walked up with her tongue sticking out and a snail sitting on it.

My child used to like licking bus windows and the poles on the Tube - is never ill

Come to think of it, we were in a field trying to find fairy gardens one day when dc3 was say 2.5/3. Huge field so dc was following a few feet away as I was chatting to friend.

DC1 should ‘Mam xxxx has poo on their hands’ and I turned round to my horror to find DC’s hands caked in cow shit.

Me being the OTT anxious person I am was nearly having having a convulsion with disgust and panic. Thank god for wet wipes! Probably used about 10 cleaning their paws and always had a bottle of have sanitizer before the covid carry on!

Ugh, rank. Sorry, op, what a horrible incident for you - I’d be freaking out to the max.

My friend’s baby ate a cigarette butt in a playground once. Like, didn’t just put it in her mouth - CHEWED UP AND ATE IT. She’s 6 now, and quite well. I’m sure your daughter will be fine. You, however, have probably aged about 10 years!

I sympathise. Neither of mine ate anything too awful (that I know of) but DS2 had a very indiscriminate licking phase . He is now a very strapping 6yo so obviously survived!

Camping trip... popped baby on blanket and when I turned back she was happily munching on ‘raisins’ only they were rabbit droppings...