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...

She's also partial to an ant

DD doesn't tend to put a lot of things in her mouth. That's good because she generally doesn't eat things she shouldn't, but it's bad because it's really hard to get her to try new foods.

My niece once swallowed a hair barrette. DSis asked her what kind, and she said, "a pink one". The same niece, several months earlier, also ate a cat treat. She's my first niece, and I didn't have much experience with toddlers. She liked our cat, and I thought I'd let her give the cat a treat. She ate the treat instead. I hope she's saving up her money, because she is going to have to pay me off big time to not make a speech about this at her wedding...

I've just fainted. Captainfabulous wins the internet. There are not enough in the world for that story.

Captain fabulous that is truly disgusting! Yuk. Yuk.

Sadly I always win these threads.

That is truly disgusting

DS once ate his own poo when I gave him no-nappy time while I made his lunch. It was everywhere.

A leaf is practically a vegetable.

OP, try giving him some salad greens, and see if he'll eat those.

Slug here too, and a piece of his brothers actual poo. That was a dark day.

My DS when about 3 retrieved a mini egg from the puppy's mouth (he'd dropped it) and before I could do anything popped it in his mouth and then ate it.

When I was little I quite clearly remember trying an acorn to see what it tasted it and we used to steal the doggie choccie drops from the cupboard!

And yet if you were to offer him lettuce, spinach etc I bet he'd be repulsed!

My ds bit into a Lindt bunny and was busy chewing the metal foil. His daddy and granny were both faffing at his mouth saying no no no and I swept into the room and whipped it out of his mouth. He wouldn't open up for them. He opened for me, I wasnae messing.

Just reclassify it as "Oh, yes, he loves eating greens."

Mine have eaten grass that I know of but have probably eaten something else disgusting about which I remain in blissful ignorance.

Oh yes I've just remembered DS also ate a babybel. Wax and all.

Ha ha! Your replies have cheered me up!

I should have mentioned that it wasn't a nice green succulent fresh leaf, it was an old bone-dry brown crunchy leaf. But still - compared to some of the stuff on this thread....

Dd aged 1 grabbed a berry from the ground in the botanic gardens and ate it before I could stop her and said 'nice grape'. That resulted in all kinds of trouble as they weren't sure (from my description and a bit fished out her teeth) what kind of berry it was and they kept saying 'this has never happened before' and Ds (4) kept wailing 'is dd going to die mummy? Daddy might be cross about that' as all the other, better mothers glared at me.

As a horticulturalist I do have to say that some plants can be very poisonous - usually things with evergreen, glossy foliage, some even contain cyanide (gulp!) however a dried up old leaf should be safe :-)

On a lighter note I once ate dog poo ? quite a considerable pile of the stuff!!

My ds ate moss I only knew when removing a stone from his mouth. I was nearly sick cleaning it out

Took my 8 month old DD to the beach yesterday and she ate a handful of sand. She was very annoyed when I stopped her from grabbing another handful.

Sand, kitchen roll, small pebbles, raw potato covered in paint, bogeys, fossilised food from his highchair.

Ds2 drinks fetid pondwater and slurps direct from the garden hose; Ds1 used to crouch down and drink water from the top of manhole covers and car park puddles.

Oh, and they both still eat cat biscuits.

When dd was 8 months old she ate a spider. saw it's legs wriggling at the sides of her mouth.
today at 16 months, she has eaten....
handful of grass
some sand
handful of paint
and old chips she fished out of the bin

Yesterday DS (8 mo) ate a fairly substantial chunk of an order of service at a funeral. Still, it kept him quiet.

Thank Christ for this thread.
My DD seems quite normal now. I could invite you and your DCs around for leaves and small stones and sand picnics.

Dd 1 ate a cigarette at 9 months old (her dad left the packet on the coffee table)' I only found out when she vomited up milk with bits of tobacco in it.

Dd 2 wasn't one for eating things. She preferred shoving them up her nose. I'll never forget the sneeze which produced a gallon of snot and a yellow bead.

As a baby I had a tendency to head for the coal skuttle and attempt to eat its contents apparently.

A CD inlay at 8 months.

You could still read it when it came out the other end. ACDC iirc.

DD (almost 1) eats

cardboard
envelopes
leaflets
playing cards
jigsaw pieces
toilet paper (unused, but if she had the chance...)
cat food
stones
toys
sand
DS's Mobilo
an old chip from under the cooker
shoes

Grass, leaves and daisies go in too but I barely even register those.

Upon changing ds's pooey nappy, I discovered a poo covered happy 60th birthday bit of table confetti. We had been at dm 60th birthday party 2 days earlier.

Must have really hurt, I felt terrible .

He has also eaten a crispy leaf.