f*ck what a sh*t parent I am!!!!

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Just posted this in weaning

've been doing BLW/spoonfeeding "normal" (ie not mashed or pureed) food with DS3 who's now 9 months.

H convinced this method doesn't work so last night he decided to puree his dinner for him - and he ate it. I decided tonight as a trial to puree his dinner and see what happens (figured that as he's teething - first tooth appeared today and I don't think the one next to it is far behind -that he may be more comfortable with it).

OMG what a disaster. First spoon -ok. 2nd spoon opened wide ok and took it no problems, but then he gagged, then he appeared to be choking, then he starts crying and gagging looking like he wants to be sick but can't. He's now on my knee screaming after having vomitted up lots of phlegm and what little dinner I did get down hm. Think if I'd given him a bottle in the last hour or so that would have come up too........

ARGHHH - no more pureeing or mashing for me - if it works for H - fine he can do it but I'm not going anywhere near that blender again when it comes to DS3's food.

Now here's the update and I feel like sh*t

Gave him a quick bath. Usually even a tired, hungry, grumpy DS3 will cheer up for a bath - but he was having none of it. Continuing to cry/scream/cough/gag/heave like he was going to throw up etc throughout.

Took him back to the living room to get him dressed. Got his nappy and vest on and picked him up to give him (another) hug to try and calm him down, more coughing and heaving and bringing up lots of phlegm on my shoulder......along with a tiny piece of shiny paper (purple to be precise). Just under 1cm square.....further investigation revealed that DS2 had brought his "crown" that he made at toddler group around Epiphany time downstairs and DS3 had obviously had hold of it and pulled a piece of the shiny metalic paper off and tried to eat it.....

Giving him the food obviously caused it to be shifted out of his mouth down his throat. So with myself for a) not seeing the blasted crown was downstairs and within his reach (he's crawling now) and b) not noticing that at some point between 4.15 and 6.15 he had a piece of purple metalic paper in his mouth.

Can't help but think how awful it could have been if it had got "stuck" over his windpipe

Oops

Yes, the contents of the nappies

They didn't actually arrive as bricks, did they?

A particularly soft deposit definitely resembled the sort of stuff you find in cement mixers

We could've hired her out as a brickie's mate

Lol!! @ brickies mate!

I don't even have the excuse of another child for some of the things dd (PFB)has put in her mouth including crayons and a slug that I had trodden on twice

Just wet myself... Licks the walls in toilets... hahahahahaha thats hilarious

my ds is also 9 months. He puts EVERYTHING in his mouth and i have to watch him like a hawk, however you are a human and you have other children, you can not be by his side every second of the day. God knows what my little boy has consumed. I left him with his dad the other day, came back in the room and he was drinking larger from a stella bottle! He is terrible for putting cables and plugs in his mouth and even enjoys the odd munch on a stinky sock! Tasty!!! Just their way of learning. Your not a bad mother at all, sounds like your doing a gd job to me Chin up. You'll laugh about it in a day or 2!

We had a 'should we call an ambulance' moment with our DD when she was 7 months. She kept coughing and was a bit vomity. It was a foil sticker and to this day it haunts me. It was a heart maybe 5mm wide, but it sure made her look like something was stuck. Never again.................. wanders off thinking about it.

PMSL at licking the toilet walls...

my ds (now almost 4) went through a phase of eating anything except food. crayon, paint, mud, board books, nappy wipes, cotton wool....

You're not a bad mother, just a normal one. if H is that concerned, why doesn't he have dc for a whole day one weekend and you have a day off? It would be a learning curve... tee hee

now a proper bad mother is caught switching on the washing machine with dd1's (2yrs) Po in.... 43 mins of dd1 sitting in front of it howling "I want po"

FAQ - don't beat yourself up over it - we all do silly things that could in theory kill our children, but luckily they usually survive!

I nearly killed ds2 recently - he's 12 now! I'll try to find the thread then you'll see that you're not a crap parent - you're just feeling guilty over what could have happened but didn't

It's gone - I must've put it in chat. Basically I was playing a game with ds2 and I dropped a little rolled up piece of paper napkin in his mouth when he was flopping all over me being a pest. I was supposed to land on his tongue and stick to it, but he was lying across me on his back and he tipped his head back as I dropped it. It must have landed right across his windpipe because suddenly he was terrified and unable to breathe. I will never in my whole life forget the expression on his face

Fortunately he was able to co-operate in turning himself on to his front and coughing while I back-slapped him and in a second or two he was fine again.

Imagine that... a silly game could have turned to tragedy, but fortunately it ended with him hugging me and crying, while I apologised to him. Poor boy.

I'm pretty ok as a parent most of the time, but I gave myself grief for that incident for a while I can tell you!

That's 'it' was supposed to land on his tongue, not 'I'. Blimey - that would've crushed him!

Things consumed by dd before the age of 1:-

1. The Argos catalogue (no the whole catalogue, luckily. Just dvd / video section I think).
2. Woodlouse
3. Woodlouse
4. Woodlouse
5. Second hand breadsticks and raisins from the floor at playgroup
6. Some more woodlice (mmm extra protein)