Is this normal???

[Nataleejah]

I saw this in a supermarket yesterday -- a toddler spat out his dummy on the floor, dad picked it up, LICKED it, and gave it back to the child.

Well it's a bit grim but yes normal ime

I've seen this many times, so yes, its is 'normal' or routine. Whether it is advisable is a whole other debate.

Have you been living in a cupboard for most of your life OP? It's gross but loads of people do it.

Must be a third or subsequent child

Toddler = fingers everywhere anyway. Wouldn't be any more germy than putting his own fingers in his mouth

It was perfectly normal in our house.

By that I just mean, "yes we did this-a lot"!

Totally normal and definitely wouldn't be a PFB . Small amount of germs versus potentially wailing child in supermarket. No brainer as far as I'm concerned!

Still looks yucky
Just like i hear some mother say they chew food for their children...

Yes, I would have thought most parents have done this at some time. As soon as babies can move, they put all sorts in their mouths!

I've seen it, it's hideous.
I used to carry 2

Completely normal

We do this.
It's because I think my saliva is much cleaner than a supermarket floor.
I would rather sook the germs than give them to a baby.

People chew food for their children? What do they think they are? Birds???

As for the dummy - yeah, perfectly normal

LEM just for you:
www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/alicia-silverstone-defends-pre-chewing-food-for-son-bear-10-months-2012274

Ah but Somethingkindaood - thats a celebrity "mom" they aren't real! Hasn't she heard of purees?

Why lick it? Wouldn't that just transfer some (but not all) of the germs from the floor into the parent's mouth then give it back to the child still with germs from the floor plus germs from the parent's mouth? It would be better not to lick it. Licking won't kill the germs from the floor, it will just add more.

I'm definitely not a very clean, tidy or germ phobic person but the idea of licking something that has been in someone else's mouth and then on the floor or spitting chewed up food from my mouth into someone else's makes me shudder and feel sick.

It's not any old someone's mouth though Topaz it's your very own babies mouth.

I found it really natural to lick my sons dummy after it had fallen on the floor. I'm surprised people are horrified by it tbh.

This normal? It's absolutely disgusting. UGH!

I did it. Not just a lick either, but a good old suck. Kind of assumed I would be taking the floors germs but I was probably wrong. Oh well.

I think one of the reasons mine didn't have dummies is that there's no way I would be picking something up off the ground, licking it and then putting it back into my child's mouth.

Screaming baby in supermarket or a licked dummy...... The licked dummy wins every time!

Have seen it, think it's not very nice, but wonder of more germs would picked up via parental sucking than licking the floor. Probably!

So you get the germs and the baby? Yep I am definitely disgusted bowlersarm