Poison Control

Ok, so for most of you (me included) the first thing you don't expect to hear when walking in your door is "I'm tempted to call poison control"! I was like "what happened" and Kraig proceeded to tell me that he walked out of the room for a second and came back and noticed Lauren had something in her mouth. When he went over to check it out he realized that she had the little white paper things that come in shoe boxes that say "DO NOT CONSUME" in her mouth and they were open. He said her mouth was full of the little beads that are in those packages. So he of course wiped her mouth out and then heard me coming in so he handed her to me and told me to rinse her mouth out really good over and over. So as I'm trying to show her how to get water in her mouth without swallowing it and spit it out in the sink (not very successful by the way because she just kept swallowing it) he was trying to decide what to do. He finally called one of our Dr. friends and left a message and then called poison control. Good news! According to the poison control hot line this is one of their most called about incidences...and they are not harmful! When our Dr. friend called us back he was laughing and said "oh my kid ate a whole package of that stuff" so we felt much better! But another lesson learned for us...when we get new shoes, throw away those little white packages instantly! Don't think "I'll do it later" because there might not be a later the next time!

**LET ME ADD THAT THE POISON CONTROL CENTER SAID THESE WERE NOT HARMFUL IN SMALL AMOUNTS! I don't want someone to read this and think their child can swallow a full boxful and be ok...just a disclaimer. :-)