8mo DS just ate a leaf

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I was practicing my laid back parenting, not telling him no - I never expected him to swallow it! Feeling like a bad parent right now.

Please make me feel better with stories of weird and wonderful stuff your young DC have eaten...

My daughter ate half a slug - well I assume she did as I only found half of it hanging out of her mouth...

They have also both helped themselves to the dog's treats and tried his food.

A leaf is nothing

A yew berry.

That was a trip to A&E.

Swiss Cheese plant. That was an A&E trip too, who knew it could cause burns and swelling of the airway.

I was found sucking a morphine ampule. A glass morphine ampule the nurse had left lying in the living room when she drew up the dose to give my dying GP.
"Just keep an eye on her" she said breezily, beating a hasty retreat. Because 2 year olds and morphine and glass is a great combo.
This was in the 60s

Well that saves you cooking dinner

mine ate pet food, mud, moss, grass, gravel, a woodlouse, half a spider.....

A penny. Although it turned out when the xrayed him there was no penny in there so he must have spat it out :)

Iguana poo

A bit of coal from the bucket beside my dad's fireplace. His house isn't really baby proofed!

A dead fly. Oh and washed her hair in the toilet the other week.

Age 4 - a marble
Age 15 - a lollipop stick (chubba chubba?)

dd2 ate a spider, I could see its moving legs hanging out of her mouth ! she gulped the lot before I could intervene :)

Mine eats everything - mud, stones, dog food, dead fly, alive caterpillar.

On Monday I actually had to floss his teeth as a bit of bark from the stick he was chewing on got stuck between his two front teeth.

He's 17 months old btw - when do they stop doing this?

ds1 ate cat biscuits....at a friends house. He scuttled across the kitchen and tucked right in...proffering one to the disgruntled cat as well

I was quite proud that he was thinking about sharing. :o

Heronsfly - boak!!!

A snail (I was just pregnant with ds2 when Ds1 ate it and promptly threw up) and the next day some ants. He was about 16 months old.

My youngest used to love eating cat food. His favourite favour was beef flavour Felix. He could crawl incredibly fast.

Dd ate blue paint which resulted in blue poo!

When DD was younger and her sensory issues were worse she used to shit smear. I remember the morning I went in her room to poo smeared bed, walls, door and then she smiled at me ... Brown teeth!

So yeah, human poo is probably the worst thing she's eaten. When DS was six months she once fed him a bar of soap! That was an interesting half hour. Screaming bubbly mouthed babies are not easy to calm down

Guinea pig poo

Mine regularly eats plum stones if I'm not careful (she's almost 3 and knows she's not meant to!)
she used to bite off and eat the teats off her dummies too..

DD also has pica. She will eat candles, wax crayons by the packet. Wax has a laxative effect so we have only felt pens in this house. Oh and playdoh, again gets eaten by the tub. I've given up buying stuff like that, she can do it under heavy supervision at nursery!

DD are a scab off the floor of a hospital waiting room. I only spotted what was happening when I heard a distinct crunch.

Don't worry about a leaf! My DD, at about 14 months, went outside to our patio and began licking bird poo in the 10 seconds she was out there before us! I was really panicking but all was well :)

Omg CaptainFabulous
I think you win the thread.

Just headed over here from my 'baby ate honey' thread. Feeling slightly better about things!
DD once shat glitter after making Christmas decorations at nursery. That was a nice festive treat