Expecting DC1 in late spring after fertility treatment. I'm really anxious, so I'm sorry if this is way too PFB.
A friend of my mum's has a one year old. She has just given me this www.boots.com/en/Fisher-Price-Rainforest-Melodies-Lights-Deluxe-Baby-Play-Gym_982767/ along with a warning that it 'needs a good clean'. We're friends, but not good enough friends that I can ask her how it has been stored IYSWIM. She's unlikely to ever visit my house due to distance.
The mat went through the washing machine. The fabric sleeves covering the legs can't be removed, so have to be hand wiped.
There were quite a few (maybe 30) black dots on either side of the giraffe. The only thing I could think of was mould/mildew, so in a fit of irrational PFB-panic I chopped off and binned the giraffe, exposing the smooth plastic bit underneath. On one of the other fabric sleeves of another leg, I've just seen another black mark. The rest of it (the mat, the hanging toys, the other fabric sleeves) look fine.
I've got several options:
- get over myself and keep it. Should I chop off the other sleeve with the black dot? Or will DC potentially hurt themself on the plastic (the sleeve was just thin polyester covering, I can't see that it provided much protection)?
- bin the whole thing
- bin most of it but keep the hanging toys and mat as they seem ok?
...and yes I need to talk to my midwife, because I'm not sure this level of worry over a playmat is normal.
