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...

I once went round the garden eating a leaf from each plant..Even furry ones. I'm not sure why, probably because I was told not to. I was perfectly fine. My DS tried to and I just said yucks and luckily it works, I know no wouldn't work with me haha!

A ladybird

She said it was 'yukky' bit scoffed it anyway

Mine have recently been found chewing on the firewood, stones in the garden (still don't know how they got out there). I looked after a friends son once and when she picked him up I had to explain that if he was ill it's probably because he'd been eating his poo.
My 5 have eaten alsorts over the yrs and the latest 2 seem to be following in their siblings wake

This thread is amazing!

DSis regularly eats a whole apple...stalk, pips and all.

My cousin once ate a woodlouse, well half of one, he offered the other half to his mum.

Luckily my DS has never eaten anything too disgusting. Sticks of chalk which he promptly throws up was are the worst.

Ds has not eaten anything he's not supposed to - yet.

I however apparently ate a spider, slug pellets (trip to A&E with that one), mud and dog biscuits.

My DS3 aged 20 months ate a fire lighter (or possibly more than one - we found him with the packet). The nice man from NHS Direct looked it up in his toxicology list and told us he should be fine - "but you might like to make sure he avoids any naked flames"...

Dried up wood lice. Too crunchy apparently

DS ate cat poo. That was a frantic and embarrassing call to NHS Direct. They weren't worried and he was fine.

My middle son as a baby ate everything he got his little hands on, from the age of 4 months. I couldn't have him outside on the lawn in the Summer, as he pulled up the grass to eat it. He ate carpet beetles and their larvae (was fun fishing live wriggly things out of his mouth, discarded sweets, a discarded cigarette butt and his big brothers poop. Best of all was when I was pregnant and he came in from the garden and presented me with half a worm, I didn't want to know where the rest of the worm was. This went on until he was nearly 3 even though he actually got fussy with 'proper' food.

At least the now 18 month old just drinks toilet bowl water, that has to be an improvement on his big brother.

Dd ate cat good at a friends house once when she first started crawling. My friend was totally chilled while it freaked out about it. Dd is fine and suffered no ill effects

When my daughter was little, (she's now 20) we lived in a rented house with a chilly plant in the garden, she didn't just eat it once, no not my little cherub, she ate all the chilies 3 times!!! And each time she was in agony. I stopped feeling sorry for her after the 2nd time. She also licked her Nan's freezer when she was there for a sleepover, she was 2 or 3 at the time. She actually was stuck to the freezer. I don't know why her Nan called me, I was no help as I was on the floor crying with laughter!!!

I had a freezer-licking sister! She stuck to it, and my mother had to pour boiling water on her tongue.

My other sister:

• Praying Mantis - only a few legs retrieved
• sand
• packet of fags
• she'd race beetles. Winner got eaten first.

Cat food, daily. We have moved the bowl to the top of the stairs she just fires up there at top speed - but you should see how shiney her coat is

And here's me feeling awful because DD 2.7yo recently ate a bite of sausage found on the floor from 24 hours previously, that's nothing compared to some of these!

She also ate a foam star from the craft box a couple of weeks ago, when I muttered the rhetorical question "oh no DD why have you done that" I got the reply..."dunno, was hungry!"

The scab definitely wins on this thread though!

Slug pellets. At the hospital we were told it happens a lot because they are quite sweet. It was very scary but fortunately all was fine as he'd have to have eaten two or three handfuls to cause a problem.

And my very same child ate a leaf at Legoland, at 9mo. I'd obviously parked her pram too close to the bushes while we queued to do parent swap with the older two.

DH and DC had just got on the ride when I noticed DD gagging on something, other half of leaf in her hand I was trying to get DHs attention to get him off the ride and while I was doing that the ride attendant called the first aider, DH went into work mode and started dishing out orders about finding out exactly what the plant was, was it toxic etc god it was embarrassing, meanwhile DD I had leant over my arm and she'd spat the leaf out in a massive pile of drool while our poor older DCs waited patiently to see if they could go back on the ride. It was about ten mins before closing and in all the drama it had got to closing time, but sure enough the ride attendant did let them all back on, think he was just relieved the.baby was ok!

And the first aider was brilliant with the children, (and with us) calm and reassuring, badges and stickers all round!

this thread is hilarious! i was adamant i wasnt starting ds on solids until he was exactly 6 months and then i found a shopping list and bits of a screwfix catalogue in his nappy.. think that ship has sailed!

DD once fed her brother one of her turds, then calmly handed me the leftover turd with a bite out of it, as he toddled along behind her calmly chewing.

Seems a lot of poo has been eaten! :) I remember when I was about 6 I had a barbie type doll and she was really grubby.....so I licked her clean even though it tasted disgusting I had to keep going until she was nice and clean :) I couldn't eat wheaten bread for a very long time afterwards (until I was about 18 actually!) as the taste reminded me of it barf

Isn't that called baby-led weaning?
Getting them to eat their greens?

My smug parenting moment that turned to ashes.

PFB toddler out in the backyard, counting carefully.
What a genius I thought.
"five....six...'
'Oh yes my darling. One two three four five six...what's next mummy's little angel?'
'Seven' she said, picking up another woodlouse and dispatching it with a toothy crunch.

I feel genuinely ill reading some of these!

My SD ate an old anti-depressant pill she found when rummaging through her mums bedside table not too long ago. OH also informed me that she ate my nail varnish pickings this morning after I left them on the side table in a container from cleaning my nails last night

I have a cousin who has eaten dog food, and my auntie ate the contents of her own nappy when she was a baby.

I accidentally drank perfume once but I was at least 7 or 8.

Shudder