I feel just sick.....

DS3 just ate a mini light....of course it would happen on the one day DH is home too! The baby was sitting next to me and my dad called to tell me that my sister is stuck somewhere in Europe and I checked her flight info and wham baby had pulled off bulb and socket and eaten them
I maamged to get the socket out, but he swallowed the bulb....ohhh MG!
We called emerg and they said to watch him, he should pass it!
Please tell me that something similiar has happened to you and eveerything was OK.............

[houseelf]

Just a quick listing of similar incidents that come to mind.

I had to call poison control twice in one week once. DS climbed up into the cabinet and got into children's tylenol and licked an ant trap within days of one another.

This past month, DD stuck a "little people" doll into the toilet filled with cleaning chemicals before sucking on it. Also, DD tried her fecal matter a couple months ago. ::

Both of my children have fallen out of the bed, down the stairs, and off their chairs.

Yesterday, I fell with DD in my arms when another little sprite ran underneath my feet at the Children's Museum. Unlike a GOOD mother, I didn't twist to prevent her fall and I dropped her on her head before I landed on top of her. (Don't think I didn't analyze my inability to move midair for a couple of hours... Boy did I feel guilty about this one).

I also dropped my brand new infant son on his head after tripping on black ice in a parkign lot.

If it would make you feel better, I could list some of DH's pediatric consults too. Most recently, he had a young boy with a kite stuck in the back of his throat while his parents sheepishly explained that "We told him not to run with a kite".

Long story short, the species still has managed to survive. I hope this ...passes...soon and this becomes a fun little "parenting survival" anecdote to share.

Kelly

[fluffhead]

Wow Kelly you've got some good stories.
Just make sure you save the bulb - you can bring it out at his HS graduation party!

Pennies. Mine have swallowed pennies. When I called, they said the main thing they worry about are oddly shaped things that would be hard to pass - and batteries.

Those little bulbs are pretty sturdy. It should be okay.

[DCJenn]

I fed my brother rocks and quarters.

I ate Desitin, Comet, baby aspirin, etc.

Jenn

[Stella]

My little brother ate a thing of green pellet rat poison. We all thought the green around his mouth was candy until one of went to the bathroom and saw the empty box and random pellets strewn all over the place. He had dug it out from the back corner of a bathroom cabinet. Go figure.

He's still kickin'

[Malpka]

When DS was a little less than two, he walked right over to the Christmas tree, examined a light on a string of them, and *crunch* took a bite. Shattered glass all in his mouth. Lovely. He was ultimately fine. Other swallowed items include pennies, cat food, and an earring.

Monitoring "output" is just so very foul.

[rainbabies]

im so sorry!

dd#2 is a garbage hound. more than once i have caught her sucking on the plastic squishy thing that soakes up meat juice. she has always been okay.

dd#1 used to poop in the tub ALL THE time! dd#2 would take baths with her and drink the water before i realized there were floaters. dh used to FREAK about that.

im sure your kiddo will be just fine.

[Michele]

My little brother ate a thing of green pellet rat poison. We all thought the green around his mouth was candy until one of went to the bathroom and saw the empty box and random pellets strewn all over the place. He had dug it out from the back corner of a bathroom cabinet. Go figure.

He's still kickin'

Amazing! That stuff has killed many a dog b/c of bleeding!!

[Meenah]

I have worked in the ER for 10 years and you would not believe some of the things children have swallowed!!!!

[Amiens]

When Emma was 18 months old, she managed to take apart a drug rep laser pointer key chain of dh. Anyway she ate 1 of the 3 button size batteries, didn't know it at the time. Dh came home and I told him how funny it was that she took it apart, and I put the 2 batteries back in. He then said "Uhh there were 3 batteries." We ended up in the ER for the night, getting xrays of her belly, oh and I was 8 1/2 months pregnant.

I had to check her poop for 3 days to make sure it passed. Sure enough on the 3rd day it came. That was one of the most disgusting things every, having to cut up poop with a disposable knife.

Crystal

[Stella]

My little brother ate a thing of green pellet rat poison. We all thought the green around his mouth was candy until one of went to the bathroom and saw the empty box and random pellets strewn all over the place. He had dug it out from the back corner of a bathroom cabinet. Go figure.

He's still kickin'

Amazing! That stuff has killed many a dog b/c of bleeding!!

It DID involve a long night in the hospital where the pumped his stomache, etc. I wouldn't say it just "wore off" and my parents still freak out when someone mentions that day in passing. They were hysterical.

was the light bulb glass? that would be my only concern, hopefully it will pass shortly

[Rapunzel]

In one of the hospitals dh has worked at the radiology department has a display of children's x-rays demonstrating some of the things children have swollowed. Pennies, paperclips, buttons, you name it and a kid has tried to swallow it!

Update on the lightbulb...yep it was glass and yep he "passed" it, GROSS I will never willingly sift through infant poop again ::

Apparently they only xray things that are larger than a dime so it was all up to us...Merry Christmas!