Ooooh yes. I haven’t had to be a poop checker (yet) but I have had to clean poo from the walls, carpet, toys, clothes, dresser, and baby. I don’t know what it is, but he likes to play with it. Ugh. Boys!
My 3yr old daughter just recently choked on 2 10 cent pieces stuck together and when I say choked she was blue in the face, frightened the living hell out of both of us!
oh no Telle! That certainly is a rite…. our worst one so far was on the night before Christmas Eve last year, Isobel pulled a button off her teddy bear’s dress in bed. And shoved it up her nose. And then stuck her finger up there and pushed it up some more. Then came and told us. I couldnt see it, at all. It was a giant plastic diamantee looking thing, and so off to the hospital we went. Once we were under the fluroescent lights, I could see it up there, so far up that I was amazed. So we waited for the Dr on call to be, well, called and he came and used alligator pincer things to get it out. And she got to bring it back home in a speciman jar. Was not fun – but hey, at least there was no vomit!
Scary! My son swallowed a dollar coin when he was well and truly old enough to know better. I can still remember the chill that went through me when we realised he was coughing because he had swallowed a coin and not the sweet we thought he had. Off to the hospital for him and the surgeon had to get it out ..I am so glad I was living with my parents then and not alone with my children. Hope all is okay with Lacey.
If it would ease your minds, you could take a CPR class for parents at a hospital or doctor’s office, I’m sure they offer all kinds of classes like that. I just got CPR-certified at school for the nursing program, but while I was sitting there I kept thinking “How has my two year old never needed this yet with all the crap he wants to try eating? I’m glad it hasn’t happened, but if it does at least now I know what to do.” I think I might advise parents to learn. I learned infant CPR through the parenting class I went to while pregnant but that only applies to the first year of life.
I’ve done the parenting CPR class, but they didn’t cover swallowing coins. They should add it in. 😛
Haha! Sorry, but your family is almost polar opposite of mine. MY parent switch turns off for the vomit. I can’t do it. Lord knows I’ve tried, but I just add to the mess with a mess of my own. Nope, that’s definitely my husband’s job. All the other is mine. Blood, well that’s a 10 alarm thing around here unless mommy is handling it! My husband will scream my name so the neighbors hear it (and it’s one of the only times he uses my actual name, I’m usually “hon” or “babe” or one of those other pet names). What’s even funnier is we had this exact conversation and we have the x-ray of the quarter to prove it! LOL! I guess kids will be kids and parents will continue having mini heart-attacks for years to come!
I had a parenting moment the other week when I asked my husband to come and do the hokey pokey with me! How things have changed. Good luck with the poo watch.
How romantic. 😛
My mother had to go looking for a 2cm compass point my brother swallowed…she saved it for his 21st later this month. Haven’t had any moments like that myself yet, but I’m sure they’ll come!
OH dear! I can’t say mine ever did eat coins but I was always terrified of batteries!!!! I had them under total lock and key! Still do! You must teach her about never eating them! With coins I always told them what they found they could keep and save to spend at the show or markets or whatever was coming up. Still works, we rarely ever have dad’s coins laying on the floor of the bedroom or Laundry for very long.
You know you are a parent when:
* You’ve picked your child’s nose for them.
*You’ve slept in a giant crib in the hospital because you can’t bare to be further away from you child who is ill than that.
*You’ve given up eating dinner three nights in a row to make sure everyone gets to football practice, swim practice, girl scouts, a school concert
*You’ve rented a hotel room just so your child can attend a swim meet and not have to get up in the middle of the night to drive there.
*You’ve been covered in vomit and the only thing you can think about is how you’re going to get the fever down.
*You’ve ditched a sex session with your spouse to calm down a child that has had a nightmare.
*You’ve skipped being with your own students to go on a field trip with your child’s class.
*had trouble controlling your bladder because you have no idea where your child is
*had trouble catching your breath just because you child is going down a 5 story water slide and you are just sure that your child is going to be the one person who’ll get hurt doing so.
*Glared at a tween boy just for looking at your daughter.
I’m sure there are others, but that’s all I can think of right now.
I swallowed a love heart charm when I was about five and my Mum had to do poop patrol! A friend’s little girl shoved a bobby pin up her nose and didn’t tell anyone, her Dad noticed the very tip of it when she was laying down about two days afterwards, they managed to get it out ok!
You’d think that’d be mighty uncomfortable!
This is one of the most precious posts I’ve seen in a while. SOOOOOO like our house!
Thanks for reminding us that we are not alone.
You’re SO not alone. x
You know your a parent when you are more familiar with the words to nursery rhymes and Play School songs than the current Top 40 music. I have no idea of the names of any current songs! (and I know that cough you are talking about. I have bounded out of bed many a night hearing that same cough from my daughter!)
Oh! Yes! Gravel up the nose…… trying to blow didn’t help; the tweezers weren’t going to budge it either; eventually we tipped some pepper into a tissue, held her mouth closed and “Aaaaashooooo”. There was the gravel! 😀
The coin? A 1p (UK) piece. A 13 month old baby. A 60 mph dash (in a 30 zone all the way) to the nearest A&E about 8 miles away, all the time trying to keep him breathing by slapping him on his back. Oh boy! How scary was that? About 4 hours and several xrays later the doctor decided that it was moving down, although very slowly because it was horizontal in his throat. Keep him on liquids for now and take him back every day….. Took 8 days before I could phone them and say we wouldn’t be back! 😀 And being the odd child he always was, and no doubt always will be (good job we love ’em?) he actually remembers doing it, and the hospital visits! Good luck with the poop patrol – get the potty back out! 🙂 Jude.x
Holy moley! That’s a scary one. Makes me feel quite a bit sick. I guess I’m quite lucky!
Your daughter looks at a naked department store mannequin and loudly asks the world why mummy has sooooooo much hair on her lady-parts? Happened to a friend – a little hard to explain! Scooping poop out of the bath is a big one here, also – eating more half-chewed things that have been dropped on the floor than I’d care to admit.
Ah yes. Our privates get explained to too many people. I just go red-faced. Must not get naked in front of daughter again.
Must be the week for our 4.5 year old ratbags to indulge in a little experimentation. Finley stuffed two unpopped popcorn kernels up each nostril watching Kung Fu Panda on Sunday eve. I yelled, “Blow Fin!” He blew and the two kernels hit the TV, over a metre away. We both cracked up laughing but I have since organised my emergency plan should they have remained lodged. Good luck on poop patrol! xx
That is too funny. And quite a shot!
At our annual church summer camp, we had one boy stick an unpopped kernel of popcorn in his ear. Long story short, after almost a week of it being in there, he casually asked the youth pastor if it would pop if it got too hot “for his friend.” A trip to the ER later, and he is now the owner of the most expensive piece of unpopped popcorn.
You know you’re a parent when:
– you cup your hands to catch your child’s vomit
– two minutes alone in the bathroom is like heaven – until you wonder why they have been so quiet
– the snotty patch on your shoulder becomes a fashion accessory (or the little milk chuck over your shoulder you don’t know is there until the end of the day and no one tells you!)
-cuddles and ‘I wuv oo”‘s are worth more than anything in the world 🙂
Sorry, but I had to laugh. And the bathroom is like a freaking day spa. Love that place.
Yeah its a bit like scum if you know what I mean
Soooo funny. My Big Girl Grand decided to make her parents think she had her nose pierced (7th grade) and used magnetic earings to accomplish this…except the magnet on the inside of her nose went up up up inside. Big Brother was babysitting, had to call parents out of a movie, ER used surgical tweezers to get it.
Far out. I remember those magnetic earrings. I had a pair.
Yikes! Haven’t encountered that one yet! But I’ve spent the last three days experiencing a parental rite of passage I’ll add to the list: constipation in a toddler. Holy cow. Talk about the seven hells. Hope I never see it again. So scary and there’s so little that can be done to immediately solve the situation.
Eeek. We use Oxypowder in our house. It’s natural and happens pretty quickly.
Don’t stress too much I swallowed a bobby pin when I was young & my mum didn’t believe me so the x-ray proved it!! She had to do poop patrol too.
That’s an odd shape to make it’s way through your body. Did it come out?
You know you’re a parent when you would catch their vomit than let it land on the carpet.
Yep. Gross, but true.
Hey Chantelle, I did the same thing when I was a kid. I was in a cardboard box rocking it like a boat and swallowed a two cent coin. it came out eventually! Lucas has put seeds in his ear at childcare and panicked when he couldn’t get it out, so his bright idea was to throw a heap of dirt and sand into it to get it out (without telling his teacher). when he got home he eventually told us and ben got it out with a toothpick, along with all the other crap he had thrown in there! Alcie has put smarties up her nose too.
Was Lucas trying to grow a garden in his ear? Man, we go through a lot of fun things.
tweezers not toothpick
I spent hours crawling around the backyard looking for a tooth… in the end had to write a letter to the Tooth fairy explaining what happened. Luckily for me, no poop patrols, but I once had to carry a plastic bag of vomit on my lap when travelling down a mountain road, as the road was too narrow to stop.
Also, the Wiggles sang on Sunrise this morning – guess who was the only one singing along? (My kids are now 14 and 11) And I was word perfect too, I might add 🙂
Ha. I think I could do that with Hi-5 songs.
I found tinsel in my daughters nappy and I didn’t even know it had gone in in the first place. She still loves sparkly things!
That’s a little bit funny. 😛
My son swallowed a barbie accessory whilst playing barbies with his big sister. He didnt choke or anything, it went straight down. I panicked for ages, and wasnt too keen on poop patrol..it was harder to monitor than I expected.. Im sure it came out eventually..
It’s SO hard to monitor. I’ve check THREE today, with no luck. Where is the bugger?
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Oh you had me laughing, and it was at your expense. Sorry. I know it wasn’t funny at the time. Try this-my sister got out of the tub, was still wet and had a towel wrapped around herself. She pulled the 4″ long hair clip out of her hair. Then she played telephone operator (the old fashioned kind). She inserted the clip into the electric socket. Wet kid and metal in the electric socket. You can imagine how the lights went out and blue sparks flew throughout the room. My mom had a fit. But little sister came out just fine.
That’s frightening!
My beautiful 3 year old daughter has been puking since Friday… I do not do vomit, but as my husband is at work during the day I have to be there to clean it up, I lost count as to how many times I have dry reached… gross, but on a happier note, there has been no vomit today 🙂 Fingers crossed!!
Fingers crossed. Eeek.
You know your a parent when your 2 year old comes out of the next room with insect legs hanging out of their mouth and no sign of the insect!!!!
Ewww!
Yep! One of our boys put up a vitamin C tablet in his nose! It was a slow dissolving one so for weeks he either sneezed or blew out orange stuff 🙂
Then another of our boys swallowed a marble. That was a trip to the hospital because it was a big marble. They found it had passed and was already in his bowels…to this day he tells everyone that he has a marble in his belly (cant convince him that he passed it through)
The things that kids do! At least she was able to let you know that she had swallowed more than one coin!
I don’t have kids (yet), but always remember being out shopping with a friend when I had to alert her to her her 4 year old son wandering around with his wee one hanging out of his pants zipper and thinking it was hilarious! She seemed to think it was a bit of a rite of passage for little boys to be pretty fascinated with it, and I just did my best not to laugh at my mortified friend!
I love your blog. You make me smile! My daughter was about 7 years old when she swallowed a Beado (just when they recalled them because if kids ate them they might get a bit trippy!!). I tested them to see how they reacted in water to make sure it wouldn’t stick to her insides!! I suppose it passed, but I wasn’t checking poop to find a Beado!! Other than that, my kids who are 15 & 13, have never stuffed, swallowed or inserted anything !
My daughter did this about three years ago… we were on holidays in the Gold Coast at the time and it was right on bedtime. I was all “eh, it will come out the other end” but my husband worries, so to put his mind at rest I called a very sensible friend who happens to be the head Dr in an Emergency ward and she said we had to take her straight to a local hospital… there’s a 1% chance the coin could lodge in her throat (even if she wasn’t in discomfort or coughing) and sit there unnoticed – the metal of the coin corroding the lining of where throat meets stomach (excuse my lack of any better medical terminology) causing life long health problems. So I went from total blasé to borderline panic and we caught a cab to the Sunshine Coast Emergency – had her neck x-rayed (nothing there, we were one of the lucky 99%). I never went thru the poop… no one seemed too convinced we needed to do that – THANK GOD.
First lost tooth down the drain hole whilst brushing ….. Small mercies brother in law is a plumber……..
My daughter thought it was a good idea to shove a piece of carrot up her nose when she was 2 1/2. After trying to get her to blow it out and ending up with it deep inside her nose it was a trip to the hospital where they quickly removed it. She is now 15 and hates carrots lol
You are holding open doors for your child’s invisable friend to walk through!!
I got a bouncy ball wedged BEHIND my jaw when I was about that age. My mum thought she was going to break my jaw getting it out:/
… when your daughter removes that secret zippered pouch you keep in your purse and dumps your private individually wrapped things in the middle of a table full of people you just met so she can play with them like building blocks … good times 🙂
oh gosh! Hope your daughter is alright Chantelle!
You FINALLY realize you’re a parent when… you adopt a 10 year old, at about a month later, you are at your boss’ birthday party, finally “coming out” and singing your first karaoke (“Daddy’s Hands” btw) and your 10 year old (whom you’ve had about a month) rushes in with his shirt off and blood EVERYWHERE. He cut his cheek wayyyy open on a little tractor they were giving the kids rides on. Immediate parent reaction:
1) Scream
2) Realize you still have a microphone in your hand!
3) Throw mic at co-worker (who thankfully caught it)
4) Run at son asking everyone what happened
5) See deeeeeeep cut
6) Freak out and run around flapping arms!!!!
7) Let husband guide son and mother (me) to car for ride to ER
8) Watch while baby goes thru cat scanny thingy
9) Find out that 10 year old is SEVERELY afraid of needles!!!!
10) Settle for butterfly enclosures and teach 10 year old to brag that he fought a gator and the gator won (the little tractor brand name is a John Deere Gator!!!!!!!)
And yes, 13 years later, he still has the scar – and yes, he still tells everyone that he fought a gator!
It’s funny that you say how we can tell the difference between coughs…When I read that part it took me back to the day when my daughter (now the magic 5 as of last monday) sitting on the sofa watching T.V during her little brothers nap time started to cough “funny”. I was in the kitchen and thought…That’s not right and as I was about to rush out of the kitchen in comes the little miss, panic in her eyes and her lips turning blue… I just thought… Nope I don’t have time to panic her airway is blocked… I checked it and sure enough there was a STUPID PLASTIC RING lodged just behind her tonsils… Be calm Alice scoop it out.. In went my finger…Missed… Have to over come my fear of hurting her go in deeper… Got it the second time…. She took a deep breath and cried… Then I cried too… I was so shit scared… Those rings are now banned in this house and I watch her like a hawk!.She still shoves things in her mouth (what is up with that!) but she seems to pick bigger things….It is the second biggest scare she has given me since her birth! Bloody hell!
I hope your little one is OK…I don’t envy your poo search…
I had a child eat the nut (as in nut and bolt) from the baby gate. I was on poo patrol for a while until…..I swept it out from under the bookcase. All that crap for nothing. I hope Miss Lacey is feeling ok now xxx
Ooooh yes. I haven’t had to be a poop checker (yet) but I have had to clean poo from the walls, carpet, toys, clothes, dresser, and baby. I don’t know what it is, but he likes to play with it. Ugh. Boys!
My 3yr old daughter just recently choked on 2 10 cent pieces stuck together and when I say choked she was blue in the face, frightened the living hell out of both of us!
oh no Telle! That certainly is a rite…. our worst one so far was on the night before Christmas Eve last year, Isobel pulled a button off her teddy bear’s dress in bed. And shoved it up her nose. And then stuck her finger up there and pushed it up some more. Then came and told us. I couldnt see it, at all. It was a giant plastic diamantee looking thing, and so off to the hospital we went. Once we were under the fluroescent lights, I could see it up there, so far up that I was amazed. So we waited for the Dr on call to be, well, called and he came and used alligator pincer things to get it out. And she got to bring it back home in a speciman jar. Was not fun – but hey, at least there was no vomit!
Scary! My son swallowed a dollar coin when he was well and truly old enough to know better. I can still remember the chill that went through me when we realised he was coughing because he had swallowed a coin and not the sweet we thought he had. Off to the hospital for him and the surgeon had to get it out ..I am so glad I was living with my parents then and not alone with my children. Hope all is okay with Lacey.
If it would ease your minds, you could take a CPR class for parents at a hospital or doctor’s office, I’m sure they offer all kinds of classes like that. I just got CPR-certified at school for the nursing program, but while I was sitting there I kept thinking “How has my two year old never needed this yet with all the crap he wants to try eating? I’m glad it hasn’t happened, but if it does at least now I know what to do.” I think I might advise parents to learn. I learned infant CPR through the parenting class I went to while pregnant but that only applies to the first year of life.
I’ve done the parenting CPR class, but they didn’t cover swallowing coins. They should add it in. 😛
Haha! Sorry, but your family is almost polar opposite of mine. MY parent switch turns off for the vomit. I can’t do it. Lord knows I’ve tried, but I just add to the mess with a mess of my own. Nope, that’s definitely my husband’s job. All the other is mine. Blood, well that’s a 10 alarm thing around here unless mommy is handling it! My husband will scream my name so the neighbors hear it (and it’s one of the only times he uses my actual name, I’m usually “hon” or “babe” or one of those other pet names). What’s even funnier is we had this exact conversation and we have the x-ray of the quarter to prove it! LOL! I guess kids will be kids and parents will continue having mini heart-attacks for years to come!
I had a parenting moment the other week when I asked my husband to come and do the hokey pokey with me! How things have changed. Good luck with the poo watch.
How romantic. 😛
My mother had to go looking for a 2cm compass point my brother swallowed…she saved it for his 21st later this month. Haven’t had any moments like that myself yet, but I’m sure they’ll come!
OH dear! I can’t say mine ever did eat coins but I was always terrified of batteries!!!! I had them under total lock and key! Still do! You must teach her about never eating them! With coins I always told them what they found they could keep and save to spend at the show or markets or whatever was coming up. Still works, we rarely ever have dad’s coins laying on the floor of the bedroom or Laundry for very long.
You know you are a parent when:
* You’ve picked your child’s nose for them.
*You’ve slept in a giant crib in the hospital because you can’t bare to be further away from you child who is ill than that.
*You’ve given up eating dinner three nights in a row to make sure everyone gets to football practice, swim practice, girl scouts, a school concert
*You’ve rented a hotel room just so your child can attend a swim meet and not have to get up in the middle of the night to drive there.
*You’ve been covered in vomit and the only thing you can think about is how you’re going to get the fever down.
*You’ve ditched a sex session with your spouse to calm down a child that has had a nightmare.
*You’ve skipped being with your own students to go on a field trip with your child’s class.
*had trouble controlling your bladder because you have no idea where your child is
*had trouble catching your breath just because you child is going down a 5 story water slide and you are just sure that your child is going to be the one person who’ll get hurt doing so.
*Glared at a tween boy just for looking at your daughter.
I’m sure there are others, but that’s all I can think of right now.
I swallowed a love heart charm when I was about five and my Mum had to do poop patrol! A friend’s little girl shoved a bobby pin up her nose and didn’t tell anyone, her Dad noticed the very tip of it when she was laying down about two days afterwards, they managed to get it out ok!
You’d think that’d be mighty uncomfortable!
This is one of the most precious posts I’ve seen in a while. SOOOOOO like our house!
Thanks for reminding us that we are not alone.
You’re SO not alone. x
You know your a parent when you are more familiar with the words to nursery rhymes and Play School songs than the current Top 40 music. I have no idea of the names of any current songs! (and I know that cough you are talking about. I have bounded out of bed many a night hearing that same cough from my daughter!)
Oh! Yes! Gravel up the nose…… trying to blow didn’t help; the tweezers weren’t going to budge it either; eventually we tipped some pepper into a tissue, held her mouth closed and “Aaaaashooooo”. There was the gravel! 😀
The coin? A 1p (UK) piece. A 13 month old baby. A 60 mph dash (in a 30 zone all the way) to the nearest A&E about 8 miles away, all the time trying to keep him breathing by slapping him on his back. Oh boy! How scary was that? About 4 hours and several xrays later the doctor decided that it was moving down, although very slowly because it was horizontal in his throat. Keep him on liquids for now and take him back every day….. Took 8 days before I could phone them and say we wouldn’t be back! 😀 And being the odd child he always was, and no doubt always will be (good job we love ’em?) he actually remembers doing it, and the hospital visits! Good luck with the poop patrol – get the potty back out! 🙂 Jude.x
Holy moley! That’s a scary one. Makes me feel quite a bit sick. I guess I’m quite lucky!
Your daughter looks at a naked department store mannequin and loudly asks the world why mummy has sooooooo much hair on her lady-parts? Happened to a friend – a little hard to explain! Scooping poop out of the bath is a big one here, also – eating more half-chewed things that have been dropped on the floor than I’d care to admit.
Ah yes. Our privates get explained to too many people. I just go red-faced. Must not get naked in front of daughter again.
Must be the week for our 4.5 year old ratbags to indulge in a little experimentation. Finley stuffed two unpopped popcorn kernels up each nostril watching Kung Fu Panda on Sunday eve. I yelled, “Blow Fin!” He blew and the two kernels hit the TV, over a metre away. We both cracked up laughing but I have since organised my emergency plan should they have remained lodged. Good luck on poop patrol! xx
That is too funny. And quite a shot!
At our annual church summer camp, we had one boy stick an unpopped kernel of popcorn in his ear. Long story short, after almost a week of it being in there, he casually asked the youth pastor if it would pop if it got too hot “for his friend.” A trip to the ER later, and he is now the owner of the most expensive piece of unpopped popcorn.
You know you’re a parent when:
– you cup your hands to catch your child’s vomit
– two minutes alone in the bathroom is like heaven – until you wonder why they have been so quiet
– the snotty patch on your shoulder becomes a fashion accessory (or the little milk chuck over your shoulder you don’t know is there until the end of the day and no one tells you!)
-cuddles and ‘I wuv oo”‘s are worth more than anything in the world 🙂
Sorry, but I had to laugh. And the bathroom is like a freaking day spa. Love that place.
Yeah its a bit like scum if you know what I mean
Soooo funny. My Big Girl Grand decided to make her parents think she had her nose pierced (7th grade) and used magnetic earings to accomplish this…except the magnet on the inside of her nose went up up up inside. Big Brother was babysitting, had to call parents out of a movie, ER used surgical tweezers to get it.
Far out. I remember those magnetic earrings. I had a pair.
Yikes! Haven’t encountered that one yet! But I’ve spent the last three days experiencing a parental rite of passage I’ll add to the list: constipation in a toddler. Holy cow. Talk about the seven hells. Hope I never see it again. So scary and there’s so little that can be done to immediately solve the situation.
Eeek. We use Oxypowder in our house. It’s natural and happens pretty quickly.
Don’t stress too much I swallowed a bobby pin when I was young & my mum didn’t believe me so the x-ray proved it!! She had to do poop patrol too.
That’s an odd shape to make it’s way through your body. Did it come out?
You know you’re a parent when you would catch their vomit than let it land on the carpet.
Yep. Gross, but true.
Hey Chantelle, I did the same thing when I was a kid. I was in a cardboard box rocking it like a boat and swallowed a two cent coin. it came out eventually! Lucas has put seeds in his ear at childcare and panicked when he couldn’t get it out, so his bright idea was to throw a heap of dirt and sand into it to get it out (without telling his teacher). when he got home he eventually told us and ben got it out with a toothpick, along with all the other crap he had thrown in there! Alcie has put smarties up her nose too.
Was Lucas trying to grow a garden in his ear? Man, we go through a lot of fun things.
tweezers not toothpick
I spent hours crawling around the backyard looking for a tooth… in the end had to write a letter to the Tooth fairy explaining what happened. Luckily for me, no poop patrols, but I once had to carry a plastic bag of vomit on my lap when travelling down a mountain road, as the road was too narrow to stop.
Also, the Wiggles sang on Sunrise this morning – guess who was the only one singing along? (My kids are now 14 and 11) And I was word perfect too, I might add 🙂
Ha. I think I could do that with Hi-5 songs.
I found tinsel in my daughters nappy and I didn’t even know it had gone in in the first place. She still loves sparkly things!
That’s a little bit funny. 😛
My son swallowed a barbie accessory whilst playing barbies with his big sister. He didnt choke or anything, it went straight down. I panicked for ages, and wasnt too keen on poop patrol..it was harder to monitor than I expected.. Im sure it came out eventually..
It’s SO hard to monitor. I’ve check THREE today, with no luck. Where is the bugger?
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Oh you had me laughing, and it was at your expense. Sorry. I know it wasn’t funny at the time. Try this-my sister got out of the tub, was still wet and had a towel wrapped around herself. She pulled the 4″ long hair clip out of her hair. Then she played telephone operator (the old fashioned kind). She inserted the clip into the electric socket. Wet kid and metal in the electric socket. You can imagine how the lights went out and blue sparks flew throughout the room. My mom had a fit. But little sister came out just fine.
That’s frightening!
My beautiful 3 year old daughter has been puking since Friday… I do not do vomit, but as my husband is at work during the day I have to be there to clean it up, I lost count as to how many times I have dry reached… gross, but on a happier note, there has been no vomit today 🙂 Fingers crossed!!
Fingers crossed. Eeek.
You know your a parent when your 2 year old comes out of the next room with insect legs hanging out of their mouth and no sign of the insect!!!!
Ewww!
Yep! One of our boys put up a vitamin C tablet in his nose! It was a slow dissolving one so for weeks he either sneezed or blew out orange stuff 🙂
Then another of our boys swallowed a marble. That was a trip to the hospital because it was a big marble. They found it had passed and was already in his bowels…to this day he tells everyone that he has a marble in his belly (cant convince him that he passed it through)
The things that kids do! At least she was able to let you know that she had swallowed more than one coin!
I don’t have kids (yet), but always remember being out shopping with a friend when I had to alert her to her her 4 year old son wandering around with his wee one hanging out of his pants zipper and thinking it was hilarious! She seemed to think it was a bit of a rite of passage for little boys to be pretty fascinated with it, and I just did my best not to laugh at my mortified friend!
I love your blog. You make me smile! My daughter was about 7 years old when she swallowed a Beado (just when they recalled them because if kids ate them they might get a bit trippy!!). I tested them to see how they reacted in water to make sure it wouldn’t stick to her insides!! I suppose it passed, but I wasn’t checking poop to find a Beado!! Other than that, my kids who are 15 & 13, have never stuffed, swallowed or inserted anything !
My daughter did this about three years ago… we were on holidays in the Gold Coast at the time and it was right on bedtime. I was all “eh, it will come out the other end” but my husband worries, so to put his mind at rest I called a very sensible friend who happens to be the head Dr in an Emergency ward and she said we had to take her straight to a local hospital… there’s a 1% chance the coin could lodge in her throat (even if she wasn’t in discomfort or coughing) and sit there unnoticed – the metal of the coin corroding the lining of where throat meets stomach (excuse my lack of any better medical terminology) causing life long health problems. So I went from total blasé to borderline panic and we caught a cab to the Sunshine Coast Emergency – had her neck x-rayed (nothing there, we were one of the lucky 99%). I never went thru the poop… no one seemed too convinced we needed to do that – THANK GOD.
First lost tooth down the drain hole whilst brushing ….. Small mercies brother in law is a plumber……..
My daughter thought it was a good idea to shove a piece of carrot up her nose when she was 2 1/2. After trying to get her to blow it out and ending up with it deep inside her nose it was a trip to the hospital where they quickly removed it. She is now 15 and hates carrots lol
You are holding open doors for your child’s invisable friend to walk through!!
I got a bouncy ball wedged BEHIND my jaw when I was about that age. My mum thought she was going to break my jaw getting it out:/
… when your daughter removes that secret zippered pouch you keep in your purse and dumps your private individually wrapped things in the middle of a table full of people you just met so she can play with them like building blocks … good times 🙂
oh gosh! Hope your daughter is alright Chantelle!
You FINALLY realize you’re a parent when… you adopt a 10 year old, at about a month later, you are at your boss’ birthday party, finally “coming out” and singing your first karaoke (“Daddy’s Hands” btw) and your 10 year old (whom you’ve had about a month) rushes in with his shirt off and blood EVERYWHERE. He cut his cheek wayyyy open on a little tractor they were giving the kids rides on. Immediate parent reaction:
1) Scream
2) Realize you still have a microphone in your hand!
3) Throw mic at co-worker (who thankfully caught it)
4) Run at son asking everyone what happened
5) See deeeeeeep cut
6) Freak out and run around flapping arms!!!!
7) Let husband guide son and mother (me) to car for ride to ER
8) Watch while baby goes thru cat scanny thingy
9) Find out that 10 year old is SEVERELY afraid of needles!!!!
10) Settle for butterfly enclosures and teach 10 year old to brag that he fought a gator and the gator won (the little tractor brand name is a John Deere Gator!!!!!!!)
And yes, 13 years later, he still has the scar – and yes, he still tells everyone that he fought a gator!
It’s funny that you say how we can tell the difference between coughs…When I read that part it took me back to the day when my daughter (now the magic 5 as of last monday) sitting on the sofa watching T.V during her little brothers nap time started to cough “funny”. I was in the kitchen and thought…That’s not right and as I was about to rush out of the kitchen in comes the little miss, panic in her eyes and her lips turning blue… I just thought… Nope I don’t have time to panic her airway is blocked… I checked it and sure enough there was a STUPID PLASTIC RING lodged just behind her tonsils… Be calm Alice scoop it out.. In went my finger…Missed… Have to over come my fear of hurting her go in deeper… Got it the second time…. She took a deep breath and cried… Then I cried too… I was so shit scared… Those rings are now banned in this house and I watch her like a hawk!.She still shoves things in her mouth (what is up with that!) but she seems to pick bigger things….It is the second biggest scare she has given me since her birth! Bloody hell!
I hope your little one is OK…I don’t envy your poo search…
I had a child eat the nut (as in nut and bolt) from the baby gate. I was on poo patrol for a while until…..I swept it out from under the bookcase. All that crap for nothing. I hope Miss Lacey is feeling ok now xxx