paper muncher!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chapsmum]

Why wont he stop eating everything!!!
I clean and hover my house every day and every day he finds the one tiny piece of fluff or paper I've missed and ears it. He has an obsession with paper. He's noly 8 months but crawls really quickly from room to room helping himsself to anything he can get his hands on!
Have tried baby proofing with little sucess and he hates a play pen!!!
he managed to pull the dovet off the bed releasing a coat hanger then he got it stuck in his throat, help!!

LOL -we discovered our DS could roll one day when we discovered a page of the TV guide chewed, soggy and with a large piece missing!

No matter how much you hoover they will find something, believe me . Just grow that extra set of eyes in the back of your head

I remember DD trying to eat a persil washing tablet once............ it was about the same time she learnt to take the wrapping off a persil washing tablet...Yeuch!!!

LOL - it gets worse - DS is still doing it at 11 months.

Have started leaving food on the floor for him to find instead.....

they are horrors. Give him an argos catalogue - will keep him entertained for hours and you won't have to feed him.
I discovered my dt2 can unscrew caps today, when I caught him trying to swig the eyedrops.

Sorry but dd2 is still doing it at 23 months, will it ever stop?

dd nearly 2 1/2 yday ate a mouthful of washing powder tablets still shreds the argos catologe but as far as im aware has stopped eating eat! think she finally grown out of eating everything she finds - i never did find the £20 note out of my purse!!! she also regularly ate the cat food had to switch to dry cat biscuits so at least i could hear if she was eating them! we got the sticking things in ears nose etc phase now this morning found her trying to stick tampon up her nose! wonder what the next phase will bring?

did worry about the paper eating thing mentioned it to very nice nurse at my local surgery and she told me not to worry as it all came out the other end eventually!

nulnulcat sounds very like my DT2 lol

Mine used to love eating paper at that age and now at 2.9 he doesn't eat that but still chews everything and is addicted to playdough. I videoed him once putting a tissue on the other side of a room and seeigng how fast he would crawl to it

yep if it can be chewed it will be chewed ;)

ds 18 months now and still does it. Favs at the moment are shiny cd's! Try and play them after that... forget it!

whilst writting this message the wee chap managed to eat some of my application form to a new job. picture me now,
Am sory mr interviewer, my child ate it!!!

Thanks anyway, glad to know I'm not alone!!!

hehehehe yes I have used the 'the lo's eaten/destroyed it' excuse myself... it's just a slight variation to 'honest teach the dog ate my homework'

have 8 mo dd. she also eats paper. think its cos i weaned her only ricecakes...

we went to asda last week, all of us, which we don't usually do. dh went off to get shower gel carrying ds, 10mths. when they came back, i said, where's the shopping list?. dh had it in his hand but all that was left were a few soggy scraps, ds had quite happily been munching away while they'd been walking round the shop