:eek: MY LIL BOY IS 11 MONTHS OLD & HE GOT A HOLD OF A CATALOG OR BOOK THE OTHER DAY, (I DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY WHICH ONE IT WAS, MY MIND JUST WENT BLANK) BUT HE ATE LIKE A DIME SIZE PIECE OF PAPER. & THIS TIME I CAUGHT HIM AGAIN. HE GOT ONE OF THE DVDS & HE SOME HOW TOOK THE COVER APART & TOOK IT OUT OF THE PLASTIC PART & WAS BITING ON THE PAPER & THIS TIME HE ATE A LIL PIECE... LIKE HALF A DIME OR SMALLER. I'M VERY WORRIED. COULD SOMETHING BAD HAPPEN TO HIM? I HEARD OF THIS OLD WIVES TALE THAT BABIES HAVE DIED FROM EATING PAPER, SO I'M FREAKING OUT. HEARD THAT IT GETS STUCK TO THEIR INSIDES. PLEASE HELP. THANKS IN ADVANCE.

i can't answer for definate but i am sure he will be fine. lots of my patients used to eat paper to fill them up so they aren't as hungry and it never harmed them but then again they are not babies. i am sure it will get mashed inside and come out the other end. oh and i never heard the old wives tale you are on about ether. there are so many :eek: oh and welcome to the board i notice it is your first post:wave:

Hello there! While it is not a good idea for a baby to eat paper, I doubt that it can hurt him at all. Paper will not get stuck inside him. My DS has been eating it ever since he could get things from his hand into his mouth! DH called me one day when he was at the grocery store and said "Honey what kind of yogurt did you want, because the baby just took a bite out of the shopping list". Eating or trying to eat paper is a very common activity for babies, don't worry, just keep an eye out!:)

when my dd was about 9 months old she ate a WHOLE page of a mothercare catalouge! My dh was freaking out when all of a sudden it all came back out again :eek: As for small pieces I wouldn't sweat it too much my dd is now 18months and is still forever chewing on her cardboard baby books... they just keep getting smaller and smaller lol

DD ate 1/4 of a kleenex yesterday. Here's hoping it wasn't used... It will all come out the other side. I have heard the old wives tale that if you swallow gum it will build up inside of you, which if you have ever swallowed gum and then had a peek in the toliet (sorry):p a few days later, it obviously does not stay stuck inside! And paper is way more easily broken down than gum! So I wouldn'nt worry!

-D.

my first ds loved to eat any kind of paper (he once ate almost an entire ace of spades) and although it used to drive me crazy and cause me to worry, he never seemed to have any ill effects from it. if he had his way, he wouldeve lived off of paper!

I don't think it will hurt them, unless they get choked on it, which DS did once and then precded to throw up, everywhere, alot.
But he chews on his books and eats them all the time. He also eats sand and dirt, and anything else he finds. I think pretty much anything excpet like chemicals and stuff is ok. Don't worry!