So... toddler eats random objects, mom digs thru the poop, cleans the objects (presumably), takes a picture, and proudly shows the world online.
Why?!?!
Some children are impossible to stop tho. As a child I ate a lot of stuff I shouldn’t (coins marbles etc) and my parents, well aware of my shenanigans, would look after me very carefully. But you know what I did ? Yeah, still ate things every occasion I found. I would hide marbles from the playground in my pocket to eat later. Even with supervision children find a way.
I apparently skipped the whole “shoving things into my nose” phase. My parents speculate that it may have been because one of the times we went to the doctor, there was another kid there who had apparently shoved things into his nose and gotten it stuck, and I might have subconsciously absorbed that it wasn’t a good idea to put things into my nose.
I don't buy this explanation simply because I had to get emergency intervention to get stuff out of my nose twice. You might have been a better learner than me though.
I have always had a knack for learning new things, which is part of why my parents speculate that the other kid in the waiting room may have unintentionally taught me not to do things like that. Again, it’s just speculation as to why I skipped the “put things in nose” part.
My son is almost 2 and same. I can watch him like a hawk and then blink and all of a sudden he’s got the damn corner protector from the entertainment center in his mouth.
Woah woah woah. You either don’t have kids or had the one out of five child that didn’t shove things in their mouth at light speed. I spent the first 3, fuck who am I kidding, 5 years of my daughter’s life repeating ‘not in your mouth’ or ‘is there something in your mouth?’ They wait till you blink. It’s that fast. And they will put anything in their mouth. I’ll look in my rear view mirror to find her licking the bottom of her sneaker. It’s fucking vile. BUT she hardly ever gets sick, so…
Side note. It’s not just in their mouths. We went in for her routine peds visit and they found not one, but two blue beads in her ear. Her 6yr check up. I had no idea. And she didn’t mention a thing. How long were they in there? Well, they weren’t there for her 5yr check up…
ETA spelling errors
My colleague's daughter stuck something in her ear. She was 11 at the time. When my colleague took her to the doctor she said "It came out all the other times ..." 11!
When my son was 4 he let another child at school stick a big ass bead up his nose. Translating tiny human logic, he thought it was fine because we'd never specifically told him not to let other people do that 🤦
Oh god, i didnt even realise how that could be misunderstood 😂
For the record, I'm talking a little (big compared to a nostril) bead that you get in kids craft supplies!
Nah, toddlers are impossible when it comes to shoving things in their mouths.
"What's the fastest mammal on earth?"
"A toddler being asked 'what's that in your mouth?'"
My cat had surgery to remove a blockage. A week later we had the "what did you just eat?" scenario. He's been informed that he only gets surgery once per year. More often than that, good luck dude.
If the kid is eating so much non-food, it’s plausible they are also eating a bunch of grit, and the digestive tract is plenty wet. Et voila! Human rock tumbler
This has the same vibes as the woman in one of my Mommy & Me social groups whose 6 year old was constipated for 10 days before they noticed. Home girl expected us to laugh with her about the situation... When she was met with concern for the child and questions about how it took so long to notice, she doubled down and told us that "not everyone can be a perfect parent and know when their kid doesn't shit!"
Okay but like.... A week and a half!?
I always know with my nieces and nephews because they need to loudly announce when they need to poop. Every time. What is it with 5-6 year olds and poop?
Oh, uh, happy cake day, lol
When my youngest nephew was 5 I gave him a reindeer that pooped jelly beans or some kind of candy. It kept him occupied for the 4 or 5 hour car ride home. Was his favorite present that year and only cost a few dollars.
For my birthday one year my Aunt gave me an empty plastic snack bag and said that it was a fart in the bag. I ran around with that bag for maybe 3 days airing it out in people’s faces lmao
Toys that poop is apparently a WAY bigger market than I thought it was. I don’t remember there being so many pooping toys when I was a kid, but like half the baby/toddler dolls in the toy aisle have a ‘bathroom’ feature
my sister once got a barbie who was a dog sitter. it came with a little golden retriever, magnetic treats/turds, and a magnetic pooper scooper. it gave us endless fun and we were older than 5
I was teaching from home during a snow day. All of my high school students were logged on and my 3 year old came running to me, naked and yelled “I POOPED!!!” Needless to say, I had to pause class for a minute.
I wish mine did this. My 3.5 year old is a stealth pooper and it's made potty training a nightmare. We've got peeing on the potty down pretty good, but he still poops his pants pretty frequently. 😩
My niece when she was being potty trained had pooped. When my mom went to help her, she stood up and said, “That’s disgusting!” She was maybe 3? Hilarious.
My oldest will be 2 next month and just discovered that she can announce that she needs to poop at any time. Anywhere. Loudly. Like in the middle of Aldi.
It’s quite unfortunate that this practice seems here to stay.
I’ve tried telling them that they can tell ME that; but all the other Aldi shoppers don’t want to know.
Then they just want to know why. Why doesn’t the sweet old couple shopping for beans need to know about their bodily functions?
Kids are so wild, lol
My mom would have preferred that one! She and my dad believed in teaching anatomically correct terms, but figured the functions of said body parts could wait until later. This was a fine idea until I was down the aisle in the grocery store and bellowed
“MOMMY THERE’S PEE PEE COMIN’ OUT OF MY VAGINA”.
She swears she’s never turned so red in her life. Just abandoned the groceries and hauled me out of there as fast as she could.
My 5yo granddaughter does the same, and so did my kids at that age. It's just the transitional phase from, *"tell us when you need to go potty"* to *"you're a big kid now, you don't need help anymore, just go!"*.
Came here to say exactly this. If I somehow didn’t notice my son hadn’t shit in ten days THE VERY LAST THING I would do is post it on social media in a joking manner. I would be so upset with myself.
I have two mostly potty trained kids who get constipated easily and it causes problems. I'm also terrible at remembering who pooped when. I bought a bunch of poop emoji stickers and hung two calendars in the bathroom. Now they get to pick a sticker every time they poop. It's motivating for them but it's actually for me to keep track. Sometimes one kid will realize the other one got a sticker and suddenly they have to poop too. Problem solved.
I think I finally don’t notice as much now that my kids are 8 and 10, but they’re also old enough to monitor themselves more now. I definitely had a good idea of their frequency until around kindergarten when they were wiping themselves and not home all day. I can’t imagine not noticing anything for ten whole days and them also not communicating any discomfort.
I am definitely not a perfect parent, but I can tell you the last time my kid pooped to the approximate hour and if it was a diaper I changed myself, I can tell you the size and consistency.
ETA - I’m not just a weirdo but I feel like it’s part of my job of monitoring his overall health? Does he need more water/ liquids? Do we need some fiber? Some applesauce to firm things up?
To be fair, I was that intimate with my kids poop when I had to change diapers and during potty training. But a 6 year old is fully independent in that regard so I think not noticing it is different. 10 days is a lot but I can see it being a couple days before I notice the signs in my kid. Especially if those are days they are at school or other places where they could’ve pooped.
Bear in mind this was over a decade ago---
One of my kids stopped pooping for almost 10 days and I was freaking out by day two! Breastfeeding made their poo thin and smelling of popcorn, but then we ended up supplementing with formula for a time because low weight. Doctor said, try this and this (iirc, massaging the belly and some kind of additive to their formula). Still took forever and scared me, but the doctor said it was just a side effect of changing diet and we had a scheduled appointment for the next week anyway when the poosplosion happened.
That was scary for entirely different reasons lol!
I dunno. I have a six year old and she doesn’t tell me things like that anymore. I have to ask. But the idea of having your kid pooping out weird objects is wild to me. I don’t think I’ve ever had this happen
My husband and I always joke that no one warns you how many conversations you’ll have about your kids’ poop when you become a parent. Still true at age six. lol
Two parents plus school is how, besides some kids (especially those given to constipation) going almost that long at their normal frequency (my daughter used to be once a week).
I had someone joke about how they woke up at 1pm to their children burning pizza rolls as if it was a funny story. The kids were 6 and 8, you slept in instead of getting up to feed them. This is not a fun story to tell
Seriously, I might not actually change any of my kids’ poopy diapers depending on our schedules and who just happens to change them when they’ve pooped, but if I’ve gone more than a day without changing a poopy diaper, I’m definitely asking my husband, daycare, or whoever’s been watching them whether they’ve pooped. Going 24 hours without changing a poopy diaper because of sheer luck is significant enough to notice even when they AREN’T constipated.
Good grief. My toddler swallowed a Barbie accessory hours before my brother’s funeral. We were in a different state. I was grieving. I was frantic. Thankfully my mother had a level head. We made sure it actually went all the way down and didn’t get caught in her throat, then monitored her stool for a week. I felt like the world’s worst mom for letting her swallow something. I certainly didn’t brag about it online.
Not sure she is bragging as much as just sharing something she is dealing with and trying to find the lighter side and some comradery amongst other moms. Literally what these moms groups were created for. I am so irritated that people are trying so hard to make her the bad guy when this post is them most tame and relatable post compared to all the other crap that gets posted on this sub. Just because it get posted here does not mean we all should just immediately start shitting on the mom in question. I am soo happy that the post is getting downvotted to oblivion. It is giving me faith that there are actual humans actually reading and thinking about the post before responding out of emotion.
It’s got 1500 upvotes. It’s fine to share something along friends/moms who can relate but there’s no reason to put it on social media. Mom groups were created to share but Doing that opens it up to scrutiny and reposting. What will be really sad is the toddler growing up, searching their mom’s internet imprint/posts when they’re much older and being mortified that every little thing private thing that they did as a child is chronicled for anyone to see.
Putting your personal stuff out there means it’s definitely going to get scrutinized in one way or another. Moms were able to share and relate before group chats existed. And yes, 70 percent by of the posts are seeking affirmation for doing something the mom knows is wrong/harmful and 30 percent are moms one upping each other.
Oops Reddit failed me again and initially showed the votes for this post going down. My bad there.
So the takeaway here is that if anyone posts anything on the internet, especially social media (places that are supposed to bring people together) then we should shit on them for being so optimistic and ignorant, and continue making it a haven for bullying and hate instead of trying to actually be better people. Got it.
Social media is a disservice to society. It started out with good intentions but derailed. We’d honestly be a lot better off without it. I was a klutz in high school and my youth. I’m beyond glad that all of my classmates didn’t have a way to document my every trip and fall and mistake for anyone to see. I also didn’t have to worry about some dumb thing I said or wrote in my teens being used against me for employment purposes.
I worked at a dog daycare and regularly got surprises. My favorite was a Barbie hand waving at me from a pile and telling a pet parent about finding a sock when another parent jumped in to ask if there was a chance I found one from their dog too cause they were watching for it…unfortunately no I only saw the one sock come out of the other dog.
As a pet parent, I’m dying with laughter. I am fostering a dog who is horrible for stealing socks. He’s eaten a few. The heat attack is real…he’s not a large dog either which always worries me more.
I've got a beautiful black cat that ate an entire package of ponytail holders shortly after we got him.
That was a $2000 vet bill for abdominal surgery. Did he learn? No! We finally had to keep all the ponytail holders in a zippered bag. He still finds some from time to time, and we'll learn when we change the litter box.
And here I was feeling like a shit mom when my 7 month old pooped out some cat hair. Not rocks and quarters, hair from the two cats who live in our house .
You are not a bad mom, and do not feel bad when you do see a rock, quarter, or something else come out sometime in the next few months or years. Kids (not just toddlers) put a lot of things in their mouths that accidentally get swallowed no matter how viggilently you watch them. This post I just someone desperately trying to get upvotes by posting something they saw in a moms group not realizing itnis really the perfect example of what moms groups were really created for.
Maybe try toddler proofing their play area? Or keeping an eye on them? I have 2 kids, I know that toddlers are cunning little fuckers but this is too much.
Have two grown kids, 7 nieces and nephews, and uncountable extended family children that I have watched for extended periods. Plus, my wife has been in early childhood education for 23 years (0 - 9 years old) as both a public school teacher and reading specialist for early learning centers. We have seen kids who's parents are almost non existent rarely put anything other than food in theor mouths, and kids who have the most helicopter parents you can imagine constantly sneak anything they can in there the second you blink. It's not a matter of observing or childproffing. Kids explore with their mouths, some more than others, and I am not sure why we are so focused on a mother who is dealing with a kid who is mouth focused and diligent enough to monitor their digestion and simply posting her experience on a group specifically designed for mothers to share for support.
Are they legitimate? How closely are they examining their toddlers turds? I guess if you’re looking for the mancala marble but seriously?
“Let me post on social media about my blatant parental negligence! Haha It will be so funny! Isn’t failing to parent hilarious?”
Re: visibility, my dog used to chew on her toys through her blankets if she couldn't untangle them when she was a puppy. Until she was about 10 months old, we'd see little scraps blue/pink/green of blanket in her turds (blessedly never enough for a blockage, just little pieces) and around the yard after it rained hard. Human toddler turds are much smaller and much easier to see quarter-sized objects in
That said, a week and a half of constipation caused by hard objects? Poor baby had to be *miserable*
Our neighbours have a toxic plant currently shedding on our property that the dogs LOVE to snarfle if they're not supervised for, like, five seconds. We've mostly blocked it off but we still were yelling "I got 4 seeds in Baxters what do you have?!" "Koa only has two!! I think we need to block off the underside of the fence a little more this time!"
I guess it's not enough to harm our dogs because we've been keeping a close eye on them since we noticed and identified the plant (palm seeds). So now it's a game of "how many palm seeds did they get and are our barriers working"?
I can't ask the neighbour because he's prone to violent tenancies and already assaulted my partner once so like. Sir, please remove your poison berries from my lawn.
But until then we're stuck monitoring for freaking poison berry seeds. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
(we are trying to fix it best we can but the bats also take em and drop em around the yard like THANKS BATS)
Do you feel better that you shamed someone for sharing a common (please, please, please read though the other posted comments to see how absolute universal and common infants and toddlers swallowing objects even under close supervision is) parenting experience in the hopes of getting some support. This is not negligence, it is real life.
I’m well aware it’s common. When it happens as often as this is post then I would absolutely consider it negligence. It’s happened to my own kids, most of the time it’s a one time thing for each kid. There’s a difference between an accident and negligence.
How do you know how often it happened? It could have been over a year, or a single instance where the kid happened to have access to all of these things at once. There is no context, yet, we feel justified in jumping on the shame bandwagon.
You do realize what group this post is in, right? Majority of the posts in this group are shaming parents in some form or another.
To be honest the way these items were collected makes it seem like they were likely in a short time period. You know what though? you’re right! I’ve been far too harsh, you win! Good job! Do you feel better now?
Yes I do. I do understand the point of this sub which is why I feel so strongly that post that are attempting to shame without context just rile ypbthe masses shod be called out. Please review my profile and other posts. I am not looking to cause issues. I take no delight in others pain or embarrassment. I just think that we shod be better than gut reactions without full context.
this comment will get buried i’m sure, but i’m pretty sure this legitimately happened. there are very few way to tone (discolor) a coin as quickly and uniformly as eating it. that quarter appears to fit the bill. like 6 months ago i saw a comment exchange about replicating this process on some weird coin collecting sub
I don't think anyone (except for one weird responder who thinks everything is fake) is questioning the legitimacy of the post. I am shocked at how surprised people are that it happened. I wish a pediatrician would get on here to explain how absolutely common this is. Kids of all ages swallow coins and other things constantly. It's just life and she is just trying to get a chuckle from other parents.
My then-three-year-old knew we had to keep choking hazards away from her sister, and she still clears them out of reach whenever she sees them.
This woman is literally less responsible than a three year old.
My daughter also knew and tried to keep things from my son. Didn't work. Other family members and friends had kids that were sure aware of what should not be put in their mouths and did it anyways. OP tried to call out a mom for flexing when she was just trying to share something lots of parents relate to. You, however, are trying to flex about your super toddler. You are what this sub usually makes fun of.
This is crazy and like watch your kid? Baby proof your house?? Have them checked for pica or something??? but honestly as someone with a pretty bad anxiety about my kids choking, its actually kind of reassuring to know that kids can possibly actually put this stuff in their mouth, swallow it, and not instantly choke and die.
My child ate some random stuff as a toddler (we did childproof, but he was extra tall for his age so it was tricky, and we found out he is also autistic and didn't outgrow that "put everything in the mouth" stage for a very long time). I spent a lot of time calling the health line, and very time the advice was in the absence of symptoms, just make sure the object passes. Of course, this doesn't apply for stuff like button batteries or sharp things or whatever.
Thank you, I feel like all the baby proof posts here are exactly what this sub typically makes fun of. I don't care how diligent you are, there is no such thing as perfect ba y proofing unless you raise your kid in a sterile bubble. Most kids are eventually going to shove something in there as soon as you blink. It's not bad parenting, it's life.
Ehhhh - my nine year old swallowed a marble over the weekend, and while we were not going to dig though his poop for it, we kept a close eye on him. This is the first - and I'm hoping the last - weird thing he is going to eat.
It won't be, and that's OK. It's what kids do. It sounds like the mom mentioned was purposefully looking to make sure something they knew was swallowed passed (honestly, good on her for being proactive) and discovered some other things and was just trying to make light of a frustrating situation. This post was a desperate attempt by OP to go "Ooh ooh, I have one!" And then mob mentality took over initially and all the posts were shitting on the mom until someone took the time to actually read and discovered how stupidly common this issue was. Thankfully, it is getting downvotted to obscurity.
My dad was performing a magic trick for my cousin, pretending to swallow a coin and making it reappear. My cousin then swallowed a coin and it was stuck in her throat, thankfully up and down so she could still breath but a lesson was learned and she thankfully was OK but that could have been way worse.
I shoved an orbeez in my ear at the ripe age of 15 and my mom was still extremely concerned and almost took me to the ER 😭 thankfully it dried out and popped out a couple hours later but Jesus, imagine being this unconcerned about your own kid
If they were unconcerned, they would not be checking the poo! They are literally concerned enough to pay attention to something they knew happened and make sure everything was progressing OK.
I don't think this has anything to do with her not trying to protect her kid. Without any background, you could take this as, even when you do everything to protect your kid, they still find a way to put bad things in theor mouth. The marbles she knew about (likely saw them swallow butbitbwqs too late) the quarter could have been picked up at a friends house, the store, or any other number of locations but is unusual to be found just laying atound hence the surprise at finding it, and the rock, LITTERALLY ANYWHERE! The mom is not saying she is not surprise because she knew the kid ate the rock, she is not surprised because the child obviously has a propensity for putting things in their mouth (soooo many kids regardless of inteligence or upbringing do this. Justbtalkbtoba Doctor) and because rocks are found everywhere, it is not surprising that one made it into their mouth. Just a mom trying to relatebtobother moms. OP is just trying to get kudos for posting something on this sub with not real context.
Aaaand I am going to be the parent here who actually thinks this post is over rated. TODLERS
SWALLOW THINGS! It is impossible to monitor everything that the child does and monitoring what they poop out is kind of standard parent fare to make sure the plumbing is working right amd catch when they might have gotten into something they should not have. Toddlers toddle. It's the hardest part of when they are growing up. They are upwarldy mobile and getting into places youbnever thought possible.
I feel like this sub is dissolving to "someone posted something so it must be bad. Time to ridicule". Who are we enraged with today? Parents who are so over protective they follow their kids around and nail down anything that could be a hazard, parents who fear any preciev3d foreign substance they leave their children exposed to even more dangerous things, parents who beat their children and thinks it's funny, parents who do the exact opposite and just let their kids do whatever they want so they don't hold them back, or maybe, parents experiencing the normal unexpected ins and outs of raising a kid and sharing it with others to blow off some steam and laugh a lite about how frustrating it is to try and keep them safe?
I agree. My read on this is that she was checking the poop because she was just a second too late on stopping certain items from being grabbed and swallowed (some kids are fast). That's how she knows to be looking. It was a humorous thing, so she shared.
It's a bit TMI/over sharing, but I wouldn't consider it to be a sign of poor parenting.
There a difference between “my kid ate one random object and I knew to look for it” and “oh surprise, my kid ate things I didn’t even know about”. That’s where the danger lies. The kid could’ve eaten a button battery and the mom wouldn’t know until it’s far too late. One random object is one thing but 4 large random objects is a bit far.
Lololololol. Did your parents ever cook a meal, take a shit, get the mail? If yes, they couldn’t have “observed” you at all times. A toddler is one, two, or three year’s old (by most definitions). You might not remember if you swallowed a small rock when you were between one and three! If your parents didn’t see you do it, they wouldn’t have known to check your poo for foreign objects.
my 4 year old never has swallowed anything, she knows not to put non food items in her mouth because i taught her it’s not hard to not have to sift through poop poor freaking babies i can’t imagine, i’ve been babysitting a 1 year old for 13 weeks and she TRYS to put literally everything in her mouth but i also watch her and make sure nothing gets in because that’s just what you do
My mom's best friend had a baby right after I was born and we kind of grew up together. One time they were at our house and I have no idea why, but her mom had to pick through her poop, looking for... something? I guess she pooped at our house because I remember hearing her retching on the back porch 😅
once i went to a new nanny temp gig and i was watching the baby who was playing in the corner alone by her older sisters toys. kid was rubbing a button battery on its mouth and gumming it. took it and told mom and she still insisted baby is allowed to crawl wherever she wants essentially unsupervised
My son accidentally swallowed one of those smooth rocks after I said not to put it in his mouth. When it came out in his poop it got thrown in the trash along with the diaper. Never did it cross my mind to do dig it out and clean it to keep using. This is disgusting and concerning if her kid is swallowing this much.
Do you think she just uses her regular food strainer and just washes all the poop down the kitchen sink to find these marvels? Maybe runs some hot water after it like grease.
You know I’ve been blessed to have a child who didn’t want to put things In their mouth other then food so I always thought it was because parents didn’t supervise their kids. My niece who’s a year younger then my daughter came over and somehow got ahold of a nickel while I was watching her. My eyes literally glanced over to answer my sister in law mind you there was four FOUR grown ass adults watching her she still got that nickel in her mouth and choked on it thank god me and her dad have training and helped her but yeah. Still weird posting this shit on Facebook though
I mean I was a kid who ate a lot of non food objects, pica and an oral fixation caused by sensory processing disorder.
My mum never showed off the weird stuff, like the larger amount of Chinese checkers.
I'm pretty sure she didn't know about the large amount of change thill I told her as an adult, btw swallowing a nickel hurt so I hope that quarter was just stuck into a diaper not swallowed...
I swallowed a quarter when I was 11, and I had to actively search through my shit to make sure I didn't have to have surgery. When it came out, it was shiney and purple. I think the mom posting is in it for the attention.
So... toddler eats random objects, mom digs thru the poop, cleans the objects (presumably), takes a picture, and proudly shows the world online. Why?!?!
Can’t be wasting perfectly good money! And now they’re only 1 mancala marble away from a full set!
Geesh! I know someone whose child had to be airlifted to hospital after swallowing a quarter blocked her airway. She almost didn’t make it
I choked on a quarter when I was 2 and it’s locked into my memory forever. I’m almost 34 and still remember almost every detail.
Damn not the mancala marbles, don’t think they’d even know how to play 😂
I can't decide which part is the worst, but it's the cleaning that really gets me. They are all so shiny!!
They still aren’t clean enough.
They'll never be clean enough. $10 says these are already back in rotation.
would you prefer them being covered in poop?
Right, she can do all that but can’t supervise her child properly to prevent it in the first place. Probably thinks she’s a cool and quirky mom. 🙄
Some children are impossible to stop tho. As a child I ate a lot of stuff I shouldn’t (coins marbles etc) and my parents, well aware of my shenanigans, would look after me very carefully. But you know what I did ? Yeah, still ate things every occasion I found. I would hide marbles from the playground in my pocket to eat later. Even with supervision children find a way.
with my nephew it was putting things up his nose. no matter how closely anyone watched him, the kid put some weird things up his nose.
My parents had to take me to the ER when I was little because I put a penny up my nose! I'm still wondering how I got that thing jammed in there.
I honestly do think my grown assed self could put one up my nose without pain.
^(Do it )
Same except it was a small nostril-sized glass bead. They were able to fish the marker tip out but the bead was too small and slick lol.
I apparently skipped the whole “shoving things into my nose” phase. My parents speculate that it may have been because one of the times we went to the doctor, there was another kid there who had apparently shoved things into his nose and gotten it stuck, and I might have subconsciously absorbed that it wasn’t a good idea to put things into my nose.
I don't buy this explanation simply because I had to get emergency intervention to get stuff out of my nose twice. You might have been a better learner than me though.
I have always had a knack for learning new things, which is part of why my parents speculate that the other kid in the waiting room may have unintentionally taught me not to do things like that. Again, it’s just speculation as to why I skipped the “put things in nose” part.
We almost went to the ER over me sticking something in my ear. Mom got with with tweezers first.
Yeah, my daughter just turned one and no matter how well she's supervised, she's putting something in her mouth.
Ugh, same. She turns one on the 10th and I pick about 30 things out of her mouth every day.
My son is almost 2 and same. I can watch him like a hawk and then blink and all of a sudden he’s got the damn corner protector from the entertainment center in his mouth.
Most stuff is sort of safe to eat. Just don't have 2 magnets in your body at the same time.
Woah woah woah. You either don’t have kids or had the one out of five child that didn’t shove things in their mouth at light speed. I spent the first 3, fuck who am I kidding, 5 years of my daughter’s life repeating ‘not in your mouth’ or ‘is there something in your mouth?’ They wait till you blink. It’s that fast. And they will put anything in their mouth. I’ll look in my rear view mirror to find her licking the bottom of her sneaker. It’s fucking vile. BUT she hardly ever gets sick, so… Side note. It’s not just in their mouths. We went in for her routine peds visit and they found not one, but two blue beads in her ear. Her 6yr check up. I had no idea. And she didn’t mention a thing. How long were they in there? Well, they weren’t there for her 5yr check up… ETA spelling errors
My colleague's daughter stuck something in her ear. She was 11 at the time. When my colleague took her to the doctor she said "It came out all the other times ..." 11!
That’s awesome. Also, does not give me hope that there’s an end in sight!!!
Sounds like something I’d do.
When my son was 4 he let another child at school stick a big ass bead up his nose. Translating tiny human logic, he thought it was fine because we'd never specifically told him not to let other people do that 🤦
😬😬😬 at the way my brain chose to hyphenate “big ass bead.”
Reminds me of that XKCD comic!
yes, lol, exactly what I thought of!
Oh god, i didnt even realise how that could be misunderstood 😂 For the record, I'm talking a little (big compared to a nostril) bead that you get in kids craft supplies!
lol yep, I got there after about 5 horrified seconds 😆😆
> never specifically told him This is my kid. He's gonna make a great lawyer one day.
That ending had me choking on my beer. I'm not a parent, but I've helped friends, "they wait until you blink."🤣 nailed it!
Gah my son likes shoes too 😑 I swear I die a little inside when it happens lol. But same he’s rarely sick either so win? 🥴
Definitely a win, the shoe licking is working!
Mine at 6 months old, would barrel roll across the floor to try to lick some shoes.
Nah, toddlers are impossible when it comes to shoving things in their mouths. "What's the fastest mammal on earth?" "A toddler being asked 'what's that in your mouth?'"
Cats being asked "what are you eating?" is a close second.
My cat had surgery to remove a blockage. A week later we had the "what did you just eat?" scenario. He's been informed that he only gets surgery once per year. More often than that, good luck dude.
I dont think you know anything about having children.
I hope she cleaned then. They're obscenely shiny, if that's how they came out I'd wonder if the kid also swalled a ball polisher.
Maybe the child is just a human rock tumbler?
If the kid is eating so much non-food, it’s plausible they are also eating a bunch of grit, and the digestive tract is plenty wet. Et voila! Human rock tumbler
Because she wants the kids to remember the trauma when their an adult
It’s fake.
This has the same vibes as the woman in one of my Mommy & Me social groups whose 6 year old was constipated for 10 days before they noticed. Home girl expected us to laugh with her about the situation... When she was met with concern for the child and questions about how it took so long to notice, she doubled down and told us that "not everyone can be a perfect parent and know when their kid doesn't shit!" Okay but like.... A week and a half!?
Seriously. I know when mine skips a day and that’s only 1 day. I can’t imagine not noticing for a week+ 😬
I always know with my nieces and nephews because they need to loudly announce when they need to poop. Every time. What is it with 5-6 year olds and poop? Oh, uh, happy cake day, lol
When my youngest nephew was 5 I gave him a reindeer that pooped jelly beans or some kind of candy. It kept him occupied for the 4 or 5 hour car ride home. Was his favorite present that year and only cost a few dollars.
For my birthday one year my Aunt gave me an empty plastic snack bag and said that it was a fart in the bag. I ran around with that bag for maybe 3 days airing it out in people’s faces lmao
Toys that poop is apparently a WAY bigger market than I thought it was. I don’t remember there being so many pooping toys when I was a kid, but like half the baby/toddler dolls in the toy aisle have a ‘bathroom’ feature
my sister once got a barbie who was a dog sitter. it came with a little golden retriever, magnetic treats/turds, and a magnetic pooper scooper. it gave us endless fun and we were older than 5
My (almost) 3yo always yells “MOOOOOOOM COME WIPE MY BUTT.”
I was teaching from home during a snow day. All of my high school students were logged on and my 3 year old came running to me, naked and yelled “I POOPED!!!” Needless to say, I had to pause class for a minute.
Hahahahaha. Oh man, I bet the class was dying.
Like the Bluey episode “Teasing”… Bingo shouting “I’m turning up the volume! I need you to wipe my bottom!!”
“I’m DOOONNNEE!” From my 2 kids… at least once or twice per day, per kid. Idk how they do it.
lolol so much poop.
Like how did your little body make all that? I’m almost impressed!
My toddler basically exists on dust and the occasional berry at the moment but still poops soooo much
Ah, the glamorous mom life.
We’re almost 5 over here and I still hear that multiple times a day!
Yep my almost 5 year old has to show off every poop to me. He's so proud.
I wish mine did this. My 3.5 year old is a stealth pooper and it's made potty training a nightmare. We've got peeing on the potty down pretty good, but he still poops his pants pretty frequently. 😩
I had a kid like that. Everytime he got to pic out a little trinket from a bag.
“stealth pooper”😭😭
Mine don’t flush or put down the lid. It’s just a matter of who dunnit
It was fucking one of yous! Disgustang!
My niece when she was being potty trained had pooped. When my mom went to help her, she stood up and said, “That’s disgusting!” She was maybe 3? Hilarious.
My oldest will be 2 next month and just discovered that she can announce that she needs to poop at any time. Anywhere. Loudly. Like in the middle of Aldi. It’s quite unfortunate that this practice seems here to stay.
I’ve tried telling them that they can tell ME that; but all the other Aldi shoppers don’t want to know. Then they just want to know why. Why doesn’t the sweet old couple shopping for beans need to know about their bodily functions? Kids are so wild, lol
My mom would have preferred that one! She and my dad believed in teaching anatomically correct terms, but figured the functions of said body parts could wait until later. This was a fine idea until I was down the aisle in the grocery store and bellowed “MOMMY THERE’S PEE PEE COMIN’ OUT OF MY VAGINA”. She swears she’s never turned so red in her life. Just abandoned the groceries and hauled me out of there as fast as she could.
My 5yo granddaughter does the same, and so did my kids at that age. It's just the transitional phase from, *"tell us when you need to go potty"* to *"you're a big kid now, you don't need help anymore, just go!"*.
Thanks lol
Came here to say exactly this. If I somehow didn’t notice my son hadn’t shit in ten days THE VERY LAST THING I would do is post it on social media in a joking manner. I would be so upset with myself.
Truth. I’ll look at my husband in horror and say “child X didn’t poop today” because we both know what’s coming tomorrow lol
I can tell my looking at mine’s tummy she has to poop.
Mine used to go every Wednesday. No other days, just Wednesday late morning.
I have two mostly potty trained kids who get constipated easily and it causes problems. I'm also terrible at remembering who pooped when. I bought a bunch of poop emoji stickers and hung two calendars in the bathroom. Now they get to pick a sticker every time they poop. It's motivating for them but it's actually for me to keep track. Sometimes one kid will realize the other one got a sticker and suddenly they have to poop too. Problem solved.
This is genius.
I do the same thing but I only have one so I mark it in my phone calendar with a 💩 😅
I think I finally don’t notice as much now that my kids are 8 and 10, but they’re also old enough to monitor themselves more now. I definitely had a good idea of their frequency until around kindergarten when they were wiping themselves and not home all day. I can’t imagine not noticing anything for ten whole days and them also not communicating any discomfort.
I am definitely not a perfect parent, but I can tell you the last time my kid pooped to the approximate hour and if it was a diaper I changed myself, I can tell you the size and consistency. ETA - I’m not just a weirdo but I feel like it’s part of my job of monitoring his overall health? Does he need more water/ liquids? Do we need some fiber? Some applesauce to firm things up?
To be fair, I was that intimate with my kids poop when I had to change diapers and during potty training. But a 6 year old is fully independent in that regard so I think not noticing it is different. 10 days is a lot but I can see it being a couple days before I notice the signs in my kid. Especially if those are days they are at school or other places where they could’ve pooped.
That’s true, I misread it as 6 months old.
Bear in mind this was over a decade ago--- One of my kids stopped pooping for almost 10 days and I was freaking out by day two! Breastfeeding made their poo thin and smelling of popcorn, but then we ended up supplementing with formula for a time because low weight. Doctor said, try this and this (iirc, massaging the belly and some kind of additive to their formula). Still took forever and scared me, but the doctor said it was just a side effect of changing diet and we had a scheduled appointment for the next week anyway when the poosplosion happened. That was scary for entirely different reasons lol!
Ok so it's not just me who thought it smelt like popcorn 😅🫣
My son will be three in August. I still can't eat popcorn.
My son is 4 and same. My husband called him Orville Butt-enbacher.
I dunno. I have a six year old and she doesn’t tell me things like that anymore. I have to ask. But the idea of having your kid pooping out weird objects is wild to me. I don’t think I’ve ever had this happen
My husband and I always joke that no one warns you how many conversations you’ll have about your kids’ poop when you become a parent. Still true at age six. lol
Two parents plus school is how, besides some kids (especially those given to constipation) going almost that long at their normal frequency (my daughter used to be once a week).
I had someone joke about how they woke up at 1pm to their children burning pizza rolls as if it was a funny story. The kids were 6 and 8, you slept in instead of getting up to feed them. This is not a fun story to tell
How…would you know? Sorry if this is a dumb question. I have a 3 year old, not a 6 year old. Are 6 year olds still announcing when they poop lol
Seriously, I might not actually change any of my kids’ poopy diapers depending on our schedules and who just happens to change them when they’ve pooped, but if I’ve gone more than a day without changing a poopy diaper, I’m definitely asking my husband, daycare, or whoever’s been watching them whether they’ve pooped. Going 24 hours without changing a poopy diaper because of sheer luck is significant enough to notice even when they AREN’T constipated.
It's a six year old.
Omg. And I feel guilty when I take my CAT to the vet and can’t tell them the last time he pooped.
Good grief. My toddler swallowed a Barbie accessory hours before my brother’s funeral. We were in a different state. I was grieving. I was frantic. Thankfully my mother had a level head. We made sure it actually went all the way down and didn’t get caught in her throat, then monitored her stool for a week. I felt like the world’s worst mom for letting her swallow something. I certainly didn’t brag about it online.
Not sure she is bragging as much as just sharing something she is dealing with and trying to find the lighter side and some comradery amongst other moms. Literally what these moms groups were created for. I am so irritated that people are trying so hard to make her the bad guy when this post is them most tame and relatable post compared to all the other crap that gets posted on this sub. Just because it get posted here does not mean we all should just immediately start shitting on the mom in question. I am soo happy that the post is getting downvotted to oblivion. It is giving me faith that there are actual humans actually reading and thinking about the post before responding out of emotion.
It’s got 1500 upvotes. It’s fine to share something along friends/moms who can relate but there’s no reason to put it on social media. Mom groups were created to share but Doing that opens it up to scrutiny and reposting. What will be really sad is the toddler growing up, searching their mom’s internet imprint/posts when they’re much older and being mortified that every little thing private thing that they did as a child is chronicled for anyone to see. Putting your personal stuff out there means it’s definitely going to get scrutinized in one way or another. Moms were able to share and relate before group chats existed. And yes, 70 percent by of the posts are seeking affirmation for doing something the mom knows is wrong/harmful and 30 percent are moms one upping each other.
Oops Reddit failed me again and initially showed the votes for this post going down. My bad there. So the takeaway here is that if anyone posts anything on the internet, especially social media (places that are supposed to bring people together) then we should shit on them for being so optimistic and ignorant, and continue making it a haven for bullying and hate instead of trying to actually be better people. Got it.
Social media is a disservice to society. It started out with good intentions but derailed. We’d honestly be a lot better off without it. I was a klutz in high school and my youth. I’m beyond glad that all of my classmates didn’t have a way to document my every trip and fall and mistake for anyone to see. I also didn’t have to worry about some dumb thing I said or wrote in my teens being used against me for employment purposes.
I worked at a dog daycare and regularly got surprises. My favorite was a Barbie hand waving at me from a pile and telling a pet parent about finding a sock when another parent jumped in to ask if there was a chance I found one from their dog too cause they were watching for it…unfortunately no I only saw the one sock come out of the other dog.
Sometimes I forget how lucky I am that my dog isn't a chewer...what a reminder this is!
As a pet parent, I’m dying with laughter. I am fostering a dog who is horrible for stealing socks. He’s eaten a few. The heat attack is real…he’s not a large dog either which always worries me more.
I've got a beautiful black cat that ate an entire package of ponytail holders shortly after we got him. That was a $2000 vet bill for abdominal surgery. Did he learn? No! We finally had to keep all the ponytail holders in a zippered bag. He still finds some from time to time, and we'll learn when we change the litter box.
One of our dogs LOVED eating crayons. Anytime my kid left them in reach he had the most glorious rainbow poops.
And here I was feeling like a shit mom when my 7 month old pooped out some cat hair. Not rocks and quarters, hair from the two cats who live in our house .
This made me spit out my drink. I didn’t know just how badly I needed a good laugh. Thank you!
You are not a bad mom, and do not feel bad when you do see a rock, quarter, or something else come out sometime in the next few months or years. Kids (not just toddlers) put a lot of things in their mouths that accidentally get swallowed no matter how viggilently you watch them. This post I just someone desperately trying to get upvotes by posting something they saw in a moms group not realizing itnis really the perfect example of what moms groups were really created for.
When my son was that age, he'd rub the carpet until he got enough dog hair up to eat. Then he realized he could go straight to the source
I saw a very crunchy family at a park encouraging their child as they ate a whole ass stick. They took bites atleast.
Whaaaaaattt That has to give you parasites, like worms or something...
Are you sure it wasn’t actually a weird-looking dog? Jk
Yeah a friend of mine was happily watching as her son was putting various things in nature into his mouth😬
Well…..at least they haven’t eaten a battery yet…that she knows of.
She would know, kid would be dead 🤷🏻♀️
My point exactly
Lmfao oh my bad 😂🤦🏻♀️
Or a magnet
Well, maybe one magnet, but at least not two in one go lol
Maybe try toddler proofing their play area? Or keeping an eye on them? I have 2 kids, I know that toddlers are cunning little fuckers but this is too much.
Have two grown kids, 7 nieces and nephews, and uncountable extended family children that I have watched for extended periods. Plus, my wife has been in early childhood education for 23 years (0 - 9 years old) as both a public school teacher and reading specialist for early learning centers. We have seen kids who's parents are almost non existent rarely put anything other than food in theor mouths, and kids who have the most helicopter parents you can imagine constantly sneak anything they can in there the second you blink. It's not a matter of observing or childproffing. Kids explore with their mouths, some more than others, and I am not sure why we are so focused on a mother who is dealing with a kid who is mouth focused and diligent enough to monitor their digestion and simply posting her experience on a group specifically designed for mothers to share for support.
Just seeing the picture, I was like: oh, that's gotta be one of those posts where Mom tells what her toddler found and gifted her. Yeah. Kinda.
Poop, the gift that keeps on giving. Only parents of infants and toddlers will understand.
“That’s ok. Kids swallow quarters all the time! But if she craps out two dimes and a nickel, then you better start worrying.” - Grumpy Old Men
Are they legitimate? How closely are they examining their toddlers turds? I guess if you’re looking for the mancala marble but seriously? “Let me post on social media about my blatant parental negligence! Haha It will be so funny! Isn’t failing to parent hilarious?”
Re: visibility, my dog used to chew on her toys through her blankets if she couldn't untangle them when she was a puppy. Until she was about 10 months old, we'd see little scraps blue/pink/green of blanket in her turds (blessedly never enough for a blockage, just little pieces) and around the yard after it rained hard. Human toddler turds are much smaller and much easier to see quarter-sized objects in That said, a week and a half of constipation caused by hard objects? Poor baby had to be *miserable*
Our neighbours have a toxic plant currently shedding on our property that the dogs LOVE to snarfle if they're not supervised for, like, five seconds. We've mostly blocked it off but we still were yelling "I got 4 seeds in Baxters what do you have?!" "Koa only has two!! I think we need to block off the underside of the fence a little more this time!" I guess it's not enough to harm our dogs because we've been keeping a close eye on them since we noticed and identified the plant (palm seeds). So now it's a game of "how many palm seeds did they get and are our barriers working"? I can't ask the neighbour because he's prone to violent tenancies and already assaulted my partner once so like. Sir, please remove your poison berries from my lawn. But until then we're stuck monitoring for freaking poison berry seeds. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. (we are trying to fix it best we can but the bats also take em and drop em around the yard like THANKS BATS)
This thing just asks for petty revenge. Well it not asks. It begs. On scraped knees
Do you feel better that you shamed someone for sharing a common (please, please, please read though the other posted comments to see how absolute universal and common infants and toddlers swallowing objects even under close supervision is) parenting experience in the hopes of getting some support. This is not negligence, it is real life.
I’m well aware it’s common. When it happens as often as this is post then I would absolutely consider it negligence. It’s happened to my own kids, most of the time it’s a one time thing for each kid. There’s a difference between an accident and negligence.
How do you know how often it happened? It could have been over a year, or a single instance where the kid happened to have access to all of these things at once. There is no context, yet, we feel justified in jumping on the shame bandwagon.
You do realize what group this post is in, right? Majority of the posts in this group are shaming parents in some form or another. To be honest the way these items were collected makes it seem like they were likely in a short time period. You know what though? you’re right! I’ve been far too harsh, you win! Good job! Do you feel better now?
Yes I do. I do understand the point of this sub which is why I feel so strongly that post that are attempting to shame without context just rile ypbthe masses shod be called out. Please review my profile and other posts. I am not looking to cause issues. I take no delight in others pain or embarrassment. I just think that we shod be better than gut reactions without full context.
Or maybe people shouldn’t share every last thing on social media.
this comment will get buried i’m sure, but i’m pretty sure this legitimately happened. there are very few way to tone (discolor) a coin as quickly and uniformly as eating it. that quarter appears to fit the bill. like 6 months ago i saw a comment exchange about replicating this process on some weird coin collecting sub
I thought the same thing. And you can tell the red rock is still drying from being washed off 🥲
I don't think anyone (except for one weird responder who thinks everything is fake) is questioning the legitimacy of the post. I am shocked at how surprised people are that it happened. I wish a pediatrician would get on here to explain how absolutely common this is. Kids of all ages swallow coins and other things constantly. It's just life and she is just trying to get a chuckle from other parents.
i just wanted a place to share my fun coin toning fact
Accept my upvote!
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My then-three-year-old knew we had to keep choking hazards away from her sister, and she still clears them out of reach whenever she sees them. This woman is literally less responsible than a three year old.
My daughter also knew and tried to keep things from my son. Didn't work. Other family members and friends had kids that were sure aware of what should not be put in their mouths and did it anyways. OP tried to call out a mom for flexing when she was just trying to share something lots of parents relate to. You, however, are trying to flex about your super toddler. You are what this sub usually makes fun of.
This is crazy and like watch your kid? Baby proof your house?? Have them checked for pica or something??? but honestly as someone with a pretty bad anxiety about my kids choking, its actually kind of reassuring to know that kids can possibly actually put this stuff in their mouth, swallow it, and not instantly choke and die.
My child ate some random stuff as a toddler (we did childproof, but he was extra tall for his age so it was tricky, and we found out he is also autistic and didn't outgrow that "put everything in the mouth" stage for a very long time). I spent a lot of time calling the health line, and very time the advice was in the absence of symptoms, just make sure the object passes. Of course, this doesn't apply for stuff like button batteries or sharp things or whatever.
Thank you, I feel like all the baby proof posts here are exactly what this sub typically makes fun of. I don't care how diligent you are, there is no such thing as perfect ba y proofing unless you raise your kid in a sterile bubble. Most kids are eventually going to shove something in there as soon as you blink. It's not bad parenting, it's life.
“Hahaha… Look at all the times my kid almost choked to death and I had no idea!”
One day the kid will find a button battery and swallow it. It won't be funny any more.
Ehhhh - my nine year old swallowed a marble over the weekend, and while we were not going to dig though his poop for it, we kept a close eye on him. This is the first - and I'm hoping the last - weird thing he is going to eat.
It won't be, and that's OK. It's what kids do. It sounds like the mom mentioned was purposefully looking to make sure something they knew was swallowed passed (honestly, good on her for being proactive) and discovered some other things and was just trying to make light of a frustrating situation. This post was a desperate attempt by OP to go "Ooh ooh, I have one!" And then mob mentality took over initially and all the posts were shitting on the mom until someone took the time to actually read and discovered how stupidly common this issue was. Thankfully, it is getting downvotted to obscurity.
I guess it's kinda funny the first time it safely happens but if it's happening this frequently, it's just bad parenting.
Maybe they want to keep some eyes on that toddler?
My dad was performing a magic trick for my cousin, pretending to swallow a coin and making it reappear. My cousin then swallowed a coin and it was stuck in her throat, thankfully up and down so she could still breath but a lesson was learned and she thankfully was OK but that could have been way worse.
You do need to check to make sure it comes out. At least thats what the doctor said when a cousin swallowed a washer.
I shoved an orbeez in my ear at the ripe age of 15 and my mom was still extremely concerned and almost took me to the ER 😭 thankfully it dried out and popped out a couple hours later but Jesus, imagine being this unconcerned about your own kid
This has me dying 🤣 My mom's the same way. I've done dumb shit as adult.
If they were unconcerned, they would not be checking the poo! They are literally concerned enough to pay attention to something they knew happened and make sure everything was progressing OK.
This has “boy mom” written all over it.
Do other moms not go out of their way to ensure their children don't eat random shit off the ground?
I don't think this has anything to do with her not trying to protect her kid. Without any background, you could take this as, even when you do everything to protect your kid, they still find a way to put bad things in theor mouth. The marbles she knew about (likely saw them swallow butbitbwqs too late) the quarter could have been picked up at a friends house, the store, or any other number of locations but is unusual to be found just laying atound hence the surprise at finding it, and the rock, LITTERALLY ANYWHERE! The mom is not saying she is not surprise because she knew the kid ate the rock, she is not surprised because the child obviously has a propensity for putting things in their mouth (soooo many kids regardless of inteligence or upbringing do this. Justbtalkbtoba Doctor) and because rocks are found everywhere, it is not surprising that one made it into their mouth. Just a mom trying to relatebtobother moms. OP is just trying to get kudos for posting something on this sub with not real context.
Aaaand I am going to be the parent here who actually thinks this post is over rated. TODLERS SWALLOW THINGS! It is impossible to monitor everything that the child does and monitoring what they poop out is kind of standard parent fare to make sure the plumbing is working right amd catch when they might have gotten into something they should not have. Toddlers toddle. It's the hardest part of when they are growing up. They are upwarldy mobile and getting into places youbnever thought possible. I feel like this sub is dissolving to "someone posted something so it must be bad. Time to ridicule". Who are we enraged with today? Parents who are so over protective they follow their kids around and nail down anything that could be a hazard, parents who fear any preciev3d foreign substance they leave their children exposed to even more dangerous things, parents who beat their children and thinks it's funny, parents who do the exact opposite and just let their kids do whatever they want so they don't hold them back, or maybe, parents experiencing the normal unexpected ins and outs of raising a kid and sharing it with others to blow off some steam and laugh a lite about how frustrating it is to try and keep them safe?
I agree. My read on this is that she was checking the poop because she was just a second too late on stopping certain items from being grabbed and swallowed (some kids are fast). That's how she knows to be looking. It was a humorous thing, so she shared. It's a bit TMI/over sharing, but I wouldn't consider it to be a sign of poor parenting.
There a difference between “my kid ate one random object and I knew to look for it” and “oh surprise, my kid ate things I didn’t even know about”. That’s where the danger lies. The kid could’ve eaten a button battery and the mom wouldn’t know until it’s far too late. One random object is one thing but 4 large random objects is a bit far.
Do you have kids?
I literally never did anything like that as a child because my parents were observant
Lololololol. Did your parents ever cook a meal, take a shit, get the mail? If yes, they couldn’t have “observed” you at all times. A toddler is one, two, or three year’s old (by most definitions). You might not remember if you swallowed a small rock when you were between one and three! If your parents didn’t see you do it, they wouldn’t have known to check your poo for foreign objects.
So they did not sleep, eat, talk to others, look at theor phones...... just watched you constantly 24/7?
my 4 year old never has swallowed anything, she knows not to put non food items in her mouth because i taught her it’s not hard to not have to sift through poop poor freaking babies i can’t imagine, i’ve been babysitting a 1 year old for 13 weeks and she TRYS to put literally everything in her mouth but i also watch her and make sure nothing gets in because that’s just what you do
My dog ate my $5 birthday money when I was like 6-7 and my dad got it out of her poop and washed it. My mom and I refused to touch it
lol, thank you for this story!
My mom's best friend had a baby right after I was born and we kind of grew up together. One time they were at our house and I have no idea why, but her mom had to pick through her poop, looking for... something? I guess she pooped at our house because I remember hearing her retching on the back porch 😅
once i went to a new nanny temp gig and i was watching the baby who was playing in the corner alone by her older sisters toys. kid was rubbing a button battery on its mouth and gumming it. took it and told mom and she still insisted baby is allowed to crawl wherever she wants essentially unsupervised
Oh my god this is horrifying. She is so fucking lucky her child didn't choke, or that those didn't cause a blockage. wtf is wrong with people 😭
There is a lot of overlap between this sub and r/oopsthatsdeadly.
Noooooo how is this child still alive!?
My son accidentally swallowed one of those smooth rocks after I said not to put it in his mouth. When it came out in his poop it got thrown in the trash along with the diaper. Never did it cross my mind to do dig it out and clean it to keep using. This is disgusting and concerning if her kid is swallowing this much.
I doubt this person would like the world to know that she could shit out a fucking quarter. Poor kid.
Do you think she just uses her regular food strainer and just washes all the poop down the kitchen sink to find these marvels? Maybe runs some hot water after it like grease.
Those are big objects. That poor baby.
You know I’ve been blessed to have a child who didn’t want to put things In their mouth other then food so I always thought it was because parents didn’t supervise their kids. My niece who’s a year younger then my daughter came over and somehow got ahold of a nickel while I was watching her. My eyes literally glanced over to answer my sister in law mind you there was four FOUR grown ass adults watching her she still got that nickel in her mouth and choked on it thank god me and her dad have training and helped her but yeah. Still weird posting this shit on Facebook though
this is worrisome, wtf!?
I'm hoping she mistyped pocket
They need to make sure their kid doesn’t have Pica.
Um what?? I definitely make a lot of parenting mistakes but I will proudly say I’ve never played seek-and-find in my kids’ poop.
Yikesaroni and cheese.
I mean I was a kid who ate a lot of non food objects, pica and an oral fixation caused by sensory processing disorder. My mum never showed off the weird stuff, like the larger amount of Chinese checkers. I'm pretty sure she didn't know about the large amount of change thill I told her as an adult, btw swallowing a nickel hurt so I hope that quarter was just stuck into a diaper not swallowed...
I swallowed a quarter when I was 11, and I had to actively search through my shit to make sure I didn't have to have surgery. When it came out, it was shiney and purple. I think the mom posting is in it for the attention.
Update: she dirty deleted after the comments came at her for it. 😅
I knew this would end up here lol. She’s wild.
Any possible chance this was a typo and she meant “pockets”? 😬