The French Babbette

Yeah, thank god i had the sticker on the phone! honestly i never thought i'd be calling them, but i have to say they were SO good! So i went to Michael's yesterday with a list of a few things to get: crayon sharpener, patches and greeting card supplies. i was in the paintbrush aisle trying to find brushes that weren't made of animal hair. sephra's had this habit lately of pulling the stroller shade over her and usually she just sits with it like that. but it was one of those mommy moments where you realize your child is just TOO quiet. so i come around and she's got a bottle of goo gone in her hand with the lid off! goo gone on her hands, shirt and the better part of her nose and mouth. needless to say I WAS HORRIFIDE!!! I asked her if she drank it and she nodded really slow, YES, she knew by the look on my face that it wasn't a good thing. I couldn't believe she'd gotten the 'child-proof' lid off. I called brent immediately and asked him for the poison control # from the sticker on the phone and called them. the lady on the other end was great, she asked me a few questions and then said it was going to be okay. sephra had most likely only swallowed a tbsp. full and it was the generic goo gone, which is mostly made of oil. but if she experienced any coughing that was a sign to go to the emergency room because this meant she got the oil in her lungs, which could cause pneumonia. the oil in her stomach would probably only cause some mild diahrrea. the lady told me to watch her in the next hour which i did like a mama hawk with her babies and the snakes around! I was stressed OUT! Everything turned out okay, she was fine but I felt horrible. I think what happened was someone had the bottle before she got it and didn't put the cap back on properly because when i put the cap on I tried to open it back up and there was no way sephra would have been able to get that off by herself. Lesson learned, child-proof cap doesn't mean child proof at ALL!

Labels: child proof, goo gone, poison control