To be freaking about newborn dirty dummy

[LondonBetti]

DD is 7+ weeks and dropped her dummy on our floor mid screaming - I just picked it up without thinking and put it back in her mouth.

Am now completely freaking out about what she could catch (google is not helping!). Our floor is as clean as it can be with two other DCs in the house but she is still much too young to shovel germs in her mouth.

Am thinking that tiredness maybe playing a factor in how worried I am so could do with some perspective to ease my head .... does this sound slightly baby unhinged?

Yes really don't worry they will be fine

She will be fine, I promise.

Here, have a glass of and relax

Yes I agree. Not good practice in general but as a one off I can almost guarantee it will be fine

yes, but you're allowed 7 weeks Post natal

Honestly don't worry.. there will come a point where you'll pick up a dropped dummy, give it a suck to 'clean' it and give it back.

She will be fine.

Try to calm down. It'll be ok. Put down google.

What seriously can be on your floor that would be that dangerous.

Big hug

With my first I was the same at about this age. Everything sterile. Dummy caps and so on.

By my third, was shoving dummy into my pocket on walks out and giving nonchalant inspection of the surface if it fell in the floor and a sneaky wipe over.

Really and truly - she's fine, no need to worry about it. :)

But we went to a party in a marquee when ds was ten weeks took loadsof dummies but not enough. I ended up 'sterilising' his dummies that had been on the muddy floor by pouring bottled water onto them. My poor little pfb!!

shes fine.
not an aibu

It will probably do her immune system good. Living in very sanitised environments isn't great. I think as a one off it would be absolutely fine.

Your own floor? She'll be fine. Your other two touch the floor all the time then touch her/you/everything.

My toddler DS once licked a train toilet floor. In my defence I was on my own, on the toilet and he did it quick as a flash.

Many fraught hours googling and worrying.

He's fine btw. Not even a whiff of a temperature.

Don't panic, she'll be absolutely fine.
I'd be reassured that google not coming up with the answer means that there aren't any nasty stories about babies getting ill from floor germs from dropped dummies.
You're allowed to worry about these things with 7 week sleep depravation. I was an absolute fool for the first 3 months and I'm pretty sure we had the same panic at one point

It's fine.

Hope she goes back to sleep soon :)

What TheDudess said - there is a well thought-of theory that the reason there are so many allergies these days is because babies are kept in too sanitised an environment, so their immune systems do not develop properly.

Thanks so much for quick responses, you are a seriously great bunch :-)

Feeling slightly embarrassed now, particularly after reading the parallel thread about the ill preemie so will focus my thoughts / prayers on a more deserving cause!

This is always a worry with a firstborn. The more kids you have, the less you worry.

She will be fine and as you know in a few months she will be rolling about the floor licking it your own family germs are ok

I'm a completed tramp. I always give a dummy a full suck if it drops on the floor. There is probably more germs in my mouth.

www.med.wisc.edu/news-events/does-living-down-on-the-farm-lead-to-healthier-immune-systems-in-kids/40798

Germs are good.

Don't be embarrassed ds2 is 9 months old and I still remember that panic when he was so new.

Worry not about dummy's unless they fall into a bucket of shite. :)