Ingested foreign body - do I pull out?

[mamanew24]

EDIT - the object was harmless, a piece of material, little one is fine but due to not knowing how much they ingested (or if they ingested anything else!) was a concern, and because it wasn’t witnessed by anybody.

Evening - one anxious Mama here.
Within 1 week of my 10 month old starting nursery she ingested a foreign object. This didn’t become apparent until a nappy change a day after being in the childcare setting, they were unaware it happened (red flag number 1 of many!)

The nursery have confirmed the object which I described was something from them.

Am I knee jerking wanting to take my little one out of the nursery? I feel I have lost trust no matter how well they handle the situation. Surely this is unacceptable, and has only happened due to lack of supervision?

Looking for advice and guidance on handling the situation, what they should be doing, and also if this has happened to anyone else?

What was it?
Was it dangerous?

What was it?

I’ve had 2 DC at nursery and never had this happen. I do think it depends on what it is though, if it’s something that’s even meant to be around babies or not.

Sorry I should have clarified have now edited. Little one is fine, it was harmless thankfully a piece of material that has come from a book apparently

Sorry I should have clarified have now edited. Little one is fine, it was harmless thankfully a piece of material that has come from a book apparently

It might have just been a tiny bit

I wouldn't be too worried about that then

It was an inch and a half in length and width

Ok, so it wasn’t an inappropriately sized toy or anything like that.

It sounds like a genuine accident just one of those things. I can see how it would be easy not to notice if a child was happily playing with a book.

If you've lost trust in the nursery then that's hard to come back from. I've had 2 in nursery and never had this happen, but they've both eaten multiple things they shouldn't have while in my care (nothing dangerous) so if it wasn't something that would cause serious harm or be
a choking risk then I would give the nursery a chance to explain and demonstrate to you how they have learnt from the incident.

Just noticed you said "red flag one of many".

Can you give more examples?

Well that’s a choke risk so them having no eyes on your baby to the point they didn’t realise would concern me. I would start to look at other nurseries or other options

I doubt that a 10month old chewing on a book would be seen as being unusual to be honest they tend to stick everything in their mouths at some point, and unless they knew the book was damaged I don't think it would be reasonable to expect them to know that she's chewed it so much a strip of it had come away. This seems like a genuine accident, but you mention other red flags so without the context of what those are it's difficult to say.

On reflection of your question I guess rather than being many red flags it’s just a HUGE one for me so feels like many as I have so many questions as to why and how it’s happened. It was a tiny piece of material, it leaves me wondering how supervised little one was, and that initially there’s been no apology.

Sorry wasn’t a tiny piece of material it was a decent size. Those who I have spoken to have been quite shocked by it

If you've lost trust and there's nothing the nursery can do to alleviate that, then yes I'd look for a new setting that you have more faith in.

There will be one adult for 3 children in the baby room. It's entirely possible that an incident like this can happen whilst that adult is interacting with one of the other children for a moment. It's not in itself a sign of lack of attention. I would wonder about the suitability of the books available to the children to play with if a piece of fabric like that could come away. Resources should be checked regularly for damage and removed if they are.