help. my three year old puts everything in her mouth.

Hi I also have a three year old daughter who puts everything in her mouth and will swallow it too if given the opportunity..she has swallowed crayons, soap, deodorant,car freshener, glue, playdough, dirt, ... just to name a few..and I do watch over her like a hawk but she is QUICK and when she sees me running to come get the item from her she promptly takes a big bite and swallows it down..and I also have a 4 year old son, so even when I put things out of my daughters reach, my son will open the door to the room and leave it open or leave things out that she can get into. It is very stressful so I feel for you. Anyway..here is a suggestion that might help you..It has sure helped us ALOT. I made a bite necklace..I made it out of that plastic (rubber?) lanyard that kids make keychains out of in camp (sorry ..best way I know how to describe it..I think it might be actually called plastic lace?) and then onto the lace I threaded pieces of the rubber tubing like you would use in fish tanks and I bought some infant chew toys that were hooked onto a ring and broke them off the ring and threaded them onto the necklace. I bought some velcro material from the sewing dept and put a strip of this on here which she chews on but also likes to pull the velcro apart too. I took some of the little plastic things that fit over your finger that you use to brush an infants teeth and sewed some together and hooked this onto the necklace too. I used little latches (kind of like the kind you use for keys sometimes) so that I can change out the items on the necklace when she gets bored. It has worked wonderfully. Whenever she goes to eat something inappropriate I redirect her to the necklace and she bites on that. My daughters speech therapist was actually the one to suggest the necklace and I am SO THANKFUL. The episodes of having try to pry something innapropriate from my daughter's mouth have decreased significantly. Good luck to you. If you have any other questions you can email me at momvb2four@bellsouth.net.

I don't have children yet but i hough of something. My mom told me it's a difficult task to watch over a baby. She would clean up the floor like no objects anywhere. She puts it out of reach like in a closet or high in the shelves. This could be pretty dangerous. My mom said that she always feared that I would put tiny objects in my mouth like marbles or coins. Once a child swallows it, this would be very complicated. So you might want to keep nothing else on the floor unless she doesn't try to eat her animal plushes. Just the idea of seeing a pair of scissors would be scary enough. About plants, you can put them in a room and close the door...hopefully she's not high enough to open it and start tasting the soil. If she still has a craving for chewing, why not buying her a baby teether? She can put that in her mouth and I think it could make her busy. I hope this was helpful. goodluck

OMG that is not good. What we usually do with my toddler when she does that is we try to scare her. Like for example we try to show her a scary insect or animal whether on TV or in real life. For example ants since she was bitten by it we tell her if you eat this ants will bite her all over. We also tell her that worms will get inside her mouth if she does it all the time. It works for us. She avoids putting things in her mouth but now she puts her fingers inside her mouth instead . It's probably a habit she started to develop but we just keep on telling her not to do it. Don't lose patience keep on telling your kid to stop doing it or he or she will get sick. We also try to feed my daughter by entertaining her at the same time I know it's weird but it works for us. We try to make feeding look like fun.