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...and she gagged/choked on it.
I was doing up a stir-fry and sent DH to the market for a few more items. Lil was next to me in her highchair playing with her sippy cup and a toy. She started getting fussy and trying to buy myself a few more minutes, I gave her a whole carrot to play with and teethe on.
For a couple of minutes she was totally happy...rolling the carrot around on her tray and every once in a while bringing it to her mouth. I wasn't concerned about her mouthing it because she doesn't have any teeth and it was too large for her to fit the whole thing in her mouth. I slipped back into my cooking Zen and was quite pleased with my creative teething toy.
All of the sudden I heard her gagging and I turned around and realized that somehow she had gotten a tiny bit of the carrot in her mouth!!!!
I unstrapped her and turned her over to give her back blows and before I even did she vomited. She vomited again and gave a couple of big coughs.
As I realized what happened - and more importantly what almost happened - I totally lost it and started sobbing.
By this time Lil was totally calm, except for the fact that she was clearly bothered by my crying. She kept laughing and batting at my face and trying to bite my chin while I was SOBBING.
When DH got home I broke down all over again telling him what happened. He went and looked at the carrot he would have never considered it dangerous to give her that.
We found the tiny piece of carrot in her vomit...and I'm telling you it was SMALL...but big and hard enough that it triggered her gag reflex (thank God).
Oh mamas...it was such a scary moment. I never even *thought* that I could be giving her something dangerous. I've been snuggling her all night since it happened and I just put her down to sleep. As soon as I put her down I started crying all over again.
Just thought I'd let others know about this as a warning and now I'm off to make a cup of tea and try to relax a bit.

I was doing up a stir-fry and sent DH to the market for a few more items. Lil was next to me in her highchair playing with her sippy cup and a toy. She started getting fussy and trying to buy myself a few more minutes, I gave her a whole carrot to play with and teethe on.
For a couple of minutes she was totally happy...rolling the carrot around on her tray and every once in a while bringing it to her mouth. I wasn't concerned about her mouthing it because she doesn't have any teeth and it was too large for her to fit the whole thing in her mouth. I slipped back into my cooking Zen and was quite pleased with my creative teething toy.
All of the sudden I heard her gagging and I turned around and realized that somehow she had gotten a tiny bit of the carrot in her mouth!!!!

I unstrapped her and turned her over to give her back blows and before I even did she vomited. She vomited again and gave a couple of big coughs.
As I realized what happened - and more importantly what almost happened - I totally lost it and started sobbing.

When DH got home I broke down all over again telling him what happened. He went and looked at the carrot he would have never considered it dangerous to give her that.
We found the tiny piece of carrot in her vomit...and I'm telling you it was SMALL...but big and hard enough that it triggered her gag reflex (thank God).
Oh mamas...it was such a scary moment. I never even *thought* that I could be giving her something dangerous. I've been snuggling her all night since it happened and I just put her down to sleep. As soon as I put her down I started crying all over again.
Just thought I'd let others know about this as a warning and now I'm off to make a cup of tea and try to relax a bit.
