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Mum issues urgent warning about popular silicone bowls as she admits 18-month-old daughter was ‘suffocated' by hers
A MUM has issued an urgent warning to other parents following a terrifying incident that gave her the "fright of my life".
The woman explained that her 18-month-old daughter was sitting next to her on the sofa as she tucked into a bowl of porridge - which had been served up in a silicone bowl.
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The bowls are popular among parents thanks to how easy they are to wash up, and the fact they can suction to plastic surfaces such as highchair trays.
But as the mum was eating her breakfast, she heard a "weird noise", like a "muffled scream", coming from her daughter.
She immediately turned to see what was wrong, and found that the "silicone bowl she was eating out of had suctioned to her face and she couldn't get it off".
"She was trying to pull it off and was panicking because it would budge," she continued.
"It was stuck hard!
"I grabbed it as soon as I saw and pulled it off her face and she instantly burst into tears."
She added that she never leaves her children when they're eating because of "choking reasons", but admitted "what I didn't expect was she could get suffocated by her bowl!".
"I've never moved so fast in my life and been so scared!" she said.
"It would have only been on her face for about 5 seconds, but the thought of what would have happened if I wasn't in the room and she had of had it stuck for a lot longer is terrifying!"
In her post in The Mum's Lounge Facebook group, she urged other mums and dads to "be so careful" with the bowls, or "better yet, don't use them!".
"This is the only silicone dish I have and I'll be chucking it out after this," she concluded.
"I saw this happen to some other mum maybe last year," one person commented on the post.
"After I read that, I threw all of my silicone bowls in the bin.
"It's so scary. It can only take a split second!"
"I have this bowl and my son slurps his cereal out of it," another admitted.
"It's going in the bin now!"
"They shouldn't be sold at all," a third insisted.
"Your bub isn't the first & won't be the last to be suctioned to a silicone bowl face first."
"Yea I only used those during the 'throwing things stage' and only in the high chair stuck to the tray," someone else commented.
"I've seen posts like this and they have warnings as well not to use them unless get are stuck down.
