to not clean dds dummy?

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DD is 15mo. She has a dummy for sleeps and sometimes if she gets upset in the daytime. They live in her cot or the pocket on her buggy.

SIL was scolded by the HV for not cleaning her dds dummys more than once a week so she asked DH and I who just looked baffled and said we dont clean dds.

Up til she was six months we would sterilise everything inc. dummies but by 6mo she was licking the cat so sterilising seemed futile. I suppose we never considered the dummies. They dont get droppd oen the floor as they live in her sleep.places.

SIL was so.now I feel guilty!

Why bother with washing dishes, cups cutlery etc then ? Just lick it clean.. at 15 mths I would rinse even under the tap and then once a while stick in boiling water .

My 16 mo DS has never had a dummy but does suck a comfort blanket and it gets soaked in napisan and washed daily (we have 3) as it stinks of dried saliva and gets pretty gross, dummies take seconds to wash and must get full of the same gunk so YABU

I hate dummies but if I did use them I would wash them ! It's no different to washing the pots or clothes, not to wash them at all is minging !

I don't bother sterilising them but they do get washed. Where the dummy teat attached to the plastic dummy they get all manky.

Shove it in the dishwasher?

I am the laxest person in the world as I have discovered on numerous "how often do you wash sheets/ towels etc" .

But even I think that is a bit ick. I used to stand DS,s dummies in boiling water every night.

I think that is a bit yuck too. Any dummies around are chucked into the dishwasher whenever that is running (twice a day probably) and the bedtime dummy is always taken out of the dishwasher and given for the night time. If we are out and the dummy is dropped I will give a quick rinse, but I would say all our dummies go through the dishwasher once a day at least. Like i wash my glasses of crockery.

Meh.

YANBU.

Another dummy slattern here... I did rinse one under the tap this morning because she'd dropped it on the floor of the utility room, but that's a rarity.

I've never really bothered with sterilising stuff tbh because I bf for long enough that by the time she was on the bottle it seemed futile. Sterilising is something that has sort of passed me by

I rinse DS2's one out most days but I can't remember ever doing much else with it, maybe the occasional chuck in the dishwasher if I remember. He doesn't move yet though so it doesn't go anywhere other than his crib.

YABU. You might want to read this link.

health.msn.co.nz/healthnews/8613728/dummies-keep-peace-but-full-of-germs

IMO thats like not washing cutlery after she uses them or not washing a child's hand for a week.

Whilst i'm all for building a child's immunity (i stopped sterilizing DS's bottles once he started crawling) thats just a bit gross- so many bacteria live in the mouth and in beds. I assume her dummy falls out at some point when she's sleeping, or gets put in the bed in the morning? So it's all wet with saliva, gets covered in sheet fluff, dust, dead skin, yeeeeuck.

Once a day (if she only uses them at night) with a bit of hot water and soap is enough.

You don't even wash them daily? Quick rinse under the tap? . I'm one of those people who never sterilised bottles and stuff, but this is just disgusting!

What grosses me is when a SMOKING parent licks off their child's suckie/dummy...and pops it in their child's mouth.

YUCK... I hated kissing a smoker... I know what it would be like for the child too!

Do you clean your plates? Then clean the dummy.

Ew.

You don't ever clean it? Yuck. That's like not cleaning cutlery, or water glasses.

It doesn't need to be sterilised, just do it first with the washing up (or bung it in the dishwasher if you have one).

Why would you not clean it?

I sterilise dummies and have spares for when I am out and about. It's not hard if you have a few

People are odd

Ewwwwh dd is 2 and still has a dummy at sleep times - they get wAshed every day. She drops hers onto the floor through the sides of her cot for example.

Yes she has dirty hands in her mouth sometimes etc but that doesn't mean I just give up entirely and for example, feed her off the floor.