My younger daughter is really oral. Still. And at five, she was really
oral. Even though she spent three and a half years with a nipple in her
mouth (mine). Some kids are just oral like that, mouthing things,
carrying things in their mouths, all that. So it was no surprise when
one day she had a nickel in her mouth for awhile, just sitting there
calmly, and then all of a sudden no one could find it anywhere, so the
only possible explanation was that it had been swallowed. So we waited
patiently but it was never recovered.
But lots of kids require surgery or other emergency procedures from swallowing coins or other little appealing objects.
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