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.

You thought it was a stray bit of delicious choccy didn't you........😘

Worm ok, but slugs actually not good- carry lung worm ,it can kill people, dogs etc
nasty things 😱. Any kid that eats one would need treatment as precaution

No personal experience, but Im not a beleiver in the "5 second rule ". However, a friend of mine said her kid would sometimes push the cat out of the way to eat from its bowl.

As a child I used to eat washing powder. I remember dipping my finger in the bag, feeling the frisson of knowing I was doing something a bit naughty but ultimately felt ashamed (and sick) afterwards.

I also used to eat random berries off bushes, and once ate laburnum seeds thinking they were peas. My parents didn’t know about any of it, but I did get very very sick sometimes.

I don’t recall eating any poo though.

Why do you have faeces on the floor?

Turned round to find my DS chewing a condom during lockdown…thankfully unused, he wasn’t sipping up his unborn siblings, thank the lord.

When my (younger) brother and I were tiny and on holiday I ran up to my parents to tell them my brother was eating stones. It wasn't stones. It was sheep poo.

My little brother used to pick dried gum from the underside of tables and chew it 🤢

Needless to say, he's totally fine now

My 18 month old licked a snail in the garden at the weekend. I’ve told myself that it was only the shell. It wasn’t, I’m not fooling anyone. You can’t win them all 🤷‍♀️

My older brother tricked me into drinking milk from our bitch who’d had pups by pretending to suckle from her himself. Bless the dog’s sweet-natured heart, she was happy to oblige.

When I mentioned it to my mum many years/decades later she REFUSED TO BELIEVE my brother would do anything so older brotherish.

I ate garden soil as a toddler and drank stream water and water from the hose when a bit older. I’m 62 now……..

Ds didn't do it much, dd, second child, did it a lot, clearing up her older siblings leaving. And cat food.

We called it floor tapas

Eating slugs can be fatal. Though ants apparently taste like lemon.

Middle and you gets children get by far the most floor snacks. One cares less and less with each child. Do watch out for slugs though.

I ate chewing gum off the ground 💁🏻‍♀️