In the garden, I’d catch her eating soil or grass! Babies are always putting things they shouldn’t in their mouths.
So when my daughter Maddie, then 1, started doing it, I wasn’t too concerned.
I’d just keep a close eye on her.
‘No, that’s dirty,’ I’d say, prising a crayon from her hand.
But Maddie was into everything...
Grass, mud, wallpaper, even carpet fluff!
And I soon noticed she wasn’t just putting it in her mouth... she was eating it, too!
‘It’s not normal,’ I said to my fiance Sonny, 28, concerned.
Our daughter Lilly, then 2, had never gone through that phase.
Then, at Maddie’s two-year health check in September last year...
‘She’s got pica,’ a paediatrician confirmed.
He explained it’s an eating disorder where people eat non-edible substances…
