A mum claims her baby almost 'suffocated to death' when a Primark Bowl from Stacey Solomon's kiddy range 'suctioned' onto her face - and only got it off thanks to her fake nails. Cheryl Drummond filled the bowl - from Stacey Solomon's Little Pickle line - with chocolate and gave it to 17-month Kaleah Drummond to keep her occupied.
As the 28-year-old mum was putting away shopping in the kitchen, she heard a thud and darted back into the living room to find her daughter on her back struggling to pull the orange dish off her face. With Kaleah getting more desperate and frantic, Cheryl struggled to separate the bowl from her daughter's face - claiming it acted like a 'plunger' thanks to being silicone and became tighter with each breath she took.
The mum says it was only thanks to her fake nails that she was finally able to break the seal and get the item off her daughter's face.
Once she managed to remove it, Cheryl says the bowl had left her daughter in tears with a red mark on her face, and claims that her tot has since been 'petrified' of the dish.
The mum-of-three is now calling on Primark to launch an investigation into the product and to alter its size, as she believes its oval shape was too tight around Kaleah's face. Primark said that the product range was tested independently and met 'EN standards for children’s feeding items' however confirmed that they were investigating the incident.
Cheryl said: "I'd just got back from a big shop. I gave Kaleah the bowl with some chocolates in whilst I was putting the shopping away. She was in the living room, I was in the kitchen. They are essentially the same room.
"I heard the bang and saw that she'd fallen back. She'd been trying to lick the bottom of the bowl like all kids do. She was sitting on the laminate floor. That's one of the reasons I heard - she hit her head when she fell backwards trying to pull the bowl off her face, and then she was banging her feet off the floor.
"Her mouth and nose were in that bowl, there was no room for her to breathe. I couldn't see her face, and she was panicking. She was trying to cry but her breaths were getting tighter every second that it was suctioned to her face.
"The bowl is made of silicone so it's like a plunger. Every breath she was creating, the bowl was getting tighter. Thankfully I managed to get my nails under the bowl and pull it off her face. It was attached so strongly, it left a big red mark around her face.
