and i agree fay..it was very funny interview..im sure shes a great mother

OMGOSH she was probably joking lighten up people

To Sadie and Gaia – I am not offended by the comments, I find them amusing. Like I said, I try to guess what everyone is going to criticize before I open the thread to read the comments.

Sounds like someone else is the one who needs to lighten up, dontcha think?

Michelle you should really lighten up a little bit. My mother is a pediatrician and yes is true there is a lot of kids swallowing stuff, pennies, little toys, screws, but in no mean parents should aloud it or look the other way, most of the objects like Gabrielle said will appear in the child’s poop, but sometimes the object can be stuck in the air waves and make it difficult to the child to breath, so it´s no joke!
I think is really stupid for a person like Mary to do such comment, but at the end it only makes her look like a poor parent, witch for the sake of her child I hope she´s not.

to gabrielle, she did indicate that the penny was out…

i actually saw this interview on t.v. the other night… and it was funny… her demeanor was not at all as though she didn’t/ doesn’t love her daughter… it was a funny story, i’m not completely sold that it was true… and she’s sitting in between jay leno and will ferrell… she’s gotta do something… i mean will ferrell is freaking HILARIOUS, eh?!

I think we should also take into account where she was when she shared these stories: The Tonight Show. I think a lot of celebs embellish their stories to make them funnier when they are on shows like that one. David Duchovny and Tea Leoni, for example, always tell really outlandish tales of their children (especially their son) on late night television. Maybe she was just exagerating for comedic purposes?

As a teacher who has had children swallow pennies and objects penny sized, like river rocks (those flat marbles), if a child swollows them you have to take their fecal matter for the next 3 days and squish it in a plastic bag to check for the penny/other object. If it doesn’t come out, then they have to get an X-ray. The X-ray is repeated 24 hours later, and if the object has not moved, they have to go in (either rectally if it is close, or surgically, which is a major, MAJOR surgery).

So, I recommend all parents not allow children to swallow non-food objects of any size.

That said, it DOES happen. Most children do pass the object. But choking is a risk.

Additionally, while I am in no way saying she is a bad parent, I think her *comments* are a little out of place. It’s like AJ’s comments about Shiloh, they get taken out of context and sound really bad. When you’re talking about a culture that is so ready to call a parent bad (even when they are not), I think celebrities may want to watch what they say a little more.

But, that’s just my two cents. Swallow them or not

Wow, her comments really struck me as odd. I get what she’s saying about being more relaxed with the second child, but not to the point of not removing a penny from their mouth..??? With our second I’m more comfortable in that I’ve done this before and I know a heck of a lot more than I did with our first. I get that side of it… but also to say that she forgets her second is there? Huh??? I couldn’t forget my daughter was there or not do something to keep her out of harms way like remove a penny from her mouth.

I don’t know.. I was just reading her comments wondering if I was reading them right lol! Very strange and concerning.

Maybe she was talking about it like it happened in slow motion? That she was thinking it before she got a chance to do anything?

I’m just curious what do you do if your child swallows a penny? Won’t it get stuck or would it pass? Just curious. I’m not a mother yet but I’m just wondering.