Eating off the floor

[sillyme563]

9 month old currently crawling around picking bits of shit off the floor and eating it. I hoover and clean constantly every day but where is all this shit coming from?!
She's currently attempting to pick and eat the leaves off of a plant while I sit here and say no no no no no no no no move her she crawls back no no no move the plant so she finds a bit of babybel from lunch to put in her mouth instead.
Aibu to just let her eat shit off the floor. Like how much shit off the floor is acceptable before one of you says it's a safeguarding issue? Parents of older children, please advise.

My daughter once ate a dead spider.

Too funny and I thought my dog was bad! She is an amateur 😂

My youngest ate rabbit poo when we were camping when he was 11 months. Twice! My dh told me don’t let him. I laughed & said have you looked at the ground, it was covered. Same child also used to eat grass & occasionally sand.

Mine recently sat chomping on half a grape in the bath, took me a while to twig where it had come from until a turd floated around her. We live in London, she often licks the chair cushions and the metal bars on the tube, she’s probably the source of the next pandemic.

Nah she’ll be the pandemic survivor!

Found DD sat on the couch sharing dog treats with him once…

I retrieved a dead fly from my 1 year olds sons mouth one day, he’s 18 now and seems to have no lasting effects other than running on testosterone and air between his ears majority of the time these days.

@dancinfeet I had a carpet licker too. There was approximately 10 seconds between the first retch and a pool of sick. I used to grab her like a rugby ball and race to the nearest sink. The England ladies team had nothing on me during the carpet licking years 🤣

I turned my back for a second and mine ate a birds poo in the garden. Also got hold of toothpaste I’d forgot I’d left in reach and started eating it.

My son ate a rabbit dropping at the park once. I saw his perfect little pincer grip and knew what was coming but couldn't move quickly enough!

Thankful to still be in the toilet roll tubes and beads phase at 15 months after these... She's also partial to a wet wipe. Not quite sure why she still thinks they're food after so many presumably tasteless tries. Meanwhile she views ham as extremely suspicious and won't touch it...

My son ate cat litter 🤢 and bird seed! Have to fish hook it out

Old Yorkshire saying
'Tha’s gorra eat a peck o’ muck afore tha dies.'
For those readers not lucky enough to have been born in Yorkshire, an approximate translation of this old expression is “You will eat a barrel-full of dirt during your lifetime”.

According to Abby Alford, writing in the Western Mail, there may have been some scientific basis to the saying. Bangor University lecturer, Dr Prysor Williams, believes that an obsession with cleanliness reduces contact with dirt and thus with harmful bacteria, therefore reducing your immunity.

Our baby group met in the pub once because our normal coffee shop was closed for some reason. I noticed my 2 year old chewing something and when I got hold of it, it was a thick manky TOENAIL which must have been hiding in the carpet

My friend’s babies all cut their teeth on hoof-trimmings when the farrier had been.

😂😂😂 I needed this laugh tonight!

I remember DS1 eating a banana skin.

My DD would turn her nose up at delicious home cooked meals but happily put random crap in her mouth. I don’t get it. Lovingly prepared, homemade lasagne is basically poison, but mud off your brother’s welly is delicious is it?! Yeah great, you crack on 🤪

DD2 managed to get hold of an (unlit) scented candle and ate some of it the other day. She absolutely reeked for the rest of the day.

My oldest was a floor licker, she particularly liked to lick the chloriney, verrucary floors at the swimming pool. My youngest had reflux as a baby, I caught him splashing in his puke one day, just patting his hand in it. They’re 17 and 20, there don’t seem to be any lasting effects!

I used to apparently toddle off to the washing machine in my walker and chew on the soapy gunky rubber seal, my sister ate 2 spiders, yes 2 and my brother ate a rabbit poop pellet from someone's house rabbit because he thought it was nesquick cereal.
Children are all kinds of gross!

Fingers crossed it wasn't the Vagine goop candle 😂

Oh dear lord

I licked a bit of baby 💩 off my sleeve once. She is 21 now and I am fine <twitch>

My Dd (now 24 and fine) used to stuff a handful of gravel in her mouth whenever she was in the garden and I turned my back for a nano-second, I'd be alerted by the crunching noise and find her grinning with muddy dribble running down her chin, then have to fight her to fish it all out - ah fun times!