US mum Laci Wornick has been left 'shaking' after a terrifying experience with a silicone baby bowl. Photo / Facebook
US mum Laci Wornick has been left 'shaking' after a terrifying experience with a silicone baby bowl. Photo / Facebook
A US mum has issued a stern warning to parents after her daughter experienced a terrifying moment while eating breakfast.
Taking to Facebook mother, Laci Wornick shared a series of photos of her daughter Elliott eating breakfast from a silicone baby bowl confessing she was “Still shaking” as she wrotethe post.
Sharing four photos of her child eating a scrambled egg from the bowl before lifting it up to her face, she said the photos are “super cute” until the last one which shows the bowl tightly suctioned to the child’s face.
“She placed her head in her bowl and it suctioned immediately to her face perfectly,” the mum explained, adding that it left her daughter “without air for a handful of seconds”.
The US mum said her daughter was happily eating scrambled egg from the bowl when things took a terrifying turn. Photo / Facebook
Explaining that once she realised what was happening, she leaned over the kitchen island to pull the bowl off her daughter’s face, however, since it was “slick and greasy” from the egg inside, it proved to be a terrifyingly difficult task.
“With ever [sic] scream she made, the bowl suctioned tighter and tighter. I ran around the island and was able to dig my fingers up under the bowl to break the seal and finally free her,” she said in a lengthy Facebook post.
Wornick went on to say her “sweet girl” was “terrified and so shaken up” adding, “I feel ridiculously awful that this happened, and I didn’t consider it when I decided to use these. That I didn’t yank it away the minute she brought it to her face. We will not be using these anymore!”
Continuing to say she hasn’t been a “new” mum in years and that her older children didn’t have silicone suction bowls, she said, “Maybe I should have already considered this a possibility, and maybe there are reports of this already that I was unaware of.”
Upon being asked how the bowls work, Wornick edited the post to explain the bowls are meant to “suction to the highchair” however “they don’t suction well” and her daughter manages to lift it off whenever the bowl is used.
The US mum said the bowl suctioned to her daughter's face leaving her 'without air for a handful of seconds'. Photo / Facebook
The post has since gone viral earning thousands of reactions and reshares including to the “Kmart & The Warehouse Hacks & Decor NZ” Facebook page.
While it’s not known where Wornick purchased her silicone baby bowl from, a similar style is sold on Kmart New Zealand’s website as well as The Warehouse.
Many Kiwis took to the comment section revealing their horror at the heart-stopping story with one person writing, “Oh man! Scary! Thank you for sharing! As my son uses these bowls always!”
Another wrote, “Sh*t I have this bowl at home, definitely not using it,” with a third writing, “Thank you for sharing, you did the right thing and putting the word out hopefully other parents are forewarned.”
