Little Diva is not going to be happy with me. She'd going to be moved into her crib. I coslept ds, with no major problems. We have guardrails around the bed and all. Last night, after putting her to sleep, which took forever, I finally left. In leaving the bathroom, I saw the light in my room was on. She had turned on the light (she learned how to use the remote long ago, and had gone through many things on my nightstand. I saw she had been munching something and saw my book had been nibbled on. As I picked up things from the floor she had knocked down, I noticed my book light had lost its battery door and found a battery missing.
OK, now I'm shaking. Everything goes into a locked drawer now. I called poison control about the missing BUTTON battery. They try to assure me that usually, the batteries pass through. However, it could be caught in the esophagus (she was not choking or coughing) and corrode, so I needed to get her to the ER within the hour for an xray. If the battery stays in her esophagus, it could corrode and start to leak.Now I'm panicking! As I'm talking to Poison Control, I'm searching. Diva, meanwhile, is strapped into her rocker, happy as a lark. Oh boy, I get to stay up! Then Poison Control tells me she will need to be scoped if the xray shows it in her esopagus, but if it did move to her tummy, it will probably be OK and pass. Whatever. I hang up the phone and start to get things ready to leave, knowing I will have to wake dh and ds.
As I bent down to pick up the paperback she'd tossed down, lo and behold: a button battery to my nightlight! Disaster averted and lesson learned. Unhappy diva coming down the pike! DS was never like this!! So, keep in mind, those itty bitty booklights have itty bitty, unprotected batteries, and itty bitty hands lead to itty bitty curious minds, leading to BIG DANGER! I'm so careful, but never careful enough!
I had to call Poison Control last night-lesson
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